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Semantic segmentation has been widely investigated in the community, in which the state of the art techniques are based on supervised models. Those models have reported unprecedented performance at the cost of requiring a large set of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Rihuan Ke , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Saurabh Pandey , Saikumar Reddy , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

3D instance segmentation is an important task for real-world applications. To avoid costly manual annotations, existing methods have explored generating pseudo labels by transferring 2D masks from foundation models to 3D. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Juan Wang , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Tomo Miyazaki , Zhijie Wang , Shinichiro Omachi

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate impressive cross-modal reasoning, extending beyond images to 3D perception. Yet, these models remain fragile under domain shifts, especially when adapting from synthetic to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mainak Singha , Sarthak Mehrotra , Paolo Casari , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Elisa Ricci , Biplab Banerjee

Although extensive research has been conducted on 3D point cloud segmentation, effectively adapting generic models to novel categories remains a formidable challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach to improve point cloud few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Guangming Lu , Wenjie Pei

In this paper, we study the problem of 3D object segmentation from raw point clouds. Unlike all existing methods which usually require a large amount of human annotations for full supervision, we propose the first unsupervised method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

The expensive annotation cost is notoriously known as the main constraint for the development of the point cloud semantic segmentation technique. Active learning methods endeavor to reduce such cost by selecting and labeling only a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu , Jie Chen , Yi Yang , Yulei Lu , Jun Xiao

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

Tracking segmentation masks of multiple instances has been intensively studied, but still faces two fundamental challenges: 1) the requirement of large-scale, frame-wise annotation, and 2) the complexity of two-stage approaches. To resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yang Fu , Sifei Liu , Umar Iqbal , Shalini De Mello , Humphrey Shi , Jan Kautz

Arguably one of the top success stories of deep learning is transfer learning. The finding that pre-training a network on a rich source set (eg., ImageNet) can help boost performance once fine-tuned on a usually much smaller target set, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Saining Xie , Jiatao Gu , Demi Guo , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas , Or Litany

Zero-shot point cloud segmentation aims to make deep models capable of recognizing novel objects in point cloud that are unseen in the training phase. Recent trends favor the pipeline which transfers knowledge from seen classes with labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhang Lu , Qi Jiang , Runnan Chen , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Existing dataset pruning techniques primarily focus on classification tasks, limiting their applicability to more complex and practical tasks like instance segmentation. Instance segmentation presents three key challenges: pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yalun Dai , Lingao Xiao , Ivor W. Tsang , Yang He

Previous top-performing methods for 3D instance segmentation often maintain inter-task dependencies and the tendency towards a lack of robustness. Besides, inevitable variations of different datasets make these methods become particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jiaheng Liu , Tong He , Honghui Yang , Rui Su , Jiayi Tian , Junran Wu , Hongcheng Guo , Ke Xu , Wanli Ouyang

Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

Training high-accuracy 3D detectors necessitates massive labeled 3D annotations with 7 degree-of-freedom, which is laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, the form of point annotations is proposed to offer significant prospects for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Hongzhi Gao , Zheng Chen , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang , Feng Zhao

Deep learning-based methods are gaining traction in digital pathology, with an increasing number of publications and challenges that aim at easing the work of systematically and exhaustively analyzing tissue slides. These methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Ting-An Yen , Hung-Chun Hsu , Pushpak Pati , Maria Gabrani , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez , Pau-Choo Chung

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen

In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu

In the past few years, we have seen great progress in perception algorithms, particular through the use of deep learning. However, most existing approaches focus on a few categories of interest, which represent only a small fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kelvin Wong , Shenlong Wang , Mengye Ren , Ming Liang , Raquel Urtasun

Open-Vocab 3D Instance Segmentation methods (OV-3DIS) have recently demonstrated their ability to generalize to unseen objects. However, these methods still depend on predefined class names during testing, restricting the autonomy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Phuc D. A. Nguyen , Minh Luu , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Khoi Nguyen