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Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Many existing approaches for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation are fully supervised. These fully supervised approaches heavily rely on large amounts of labeled training data that are difficult to obtain and cannot segment new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Na Zhao , Tat-Seng Chua , Gim Hee Lee

Due to the few annotated labels of 3D point clouds, how to learn discriminative features of point clouds to segment object instances is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective 3D instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Linghua Tang , Le Hui , Jin Xie

While massively scaling both data and models have become central in NLP and 2D vision, their benefits for 3D point cloud understanding remain limited. We study the initial step of scaling 3D point cloud understanding under a realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuweiyi Chen , Wentao Zhou , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Zezhou Cheng

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

We introduce WyPR, a Weakly-supervised framework for Point cloud Recognition, requiring only scene-level class tags as supervision. WyPR jointly addresses three core 3D recognition tasks: point-level semantic segmentation, 3D proposal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zhongzheng Ren , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Rohit Girdhar

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

Point cloud analysis has received much attention recently; and segmentation is one of the most important tasks. The success of existing approaches is attributed to deep network design and large amount of labelled training data, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xun Xu , Gim Hee Lee

We present a novel approach to learning a point-wise, meaningful embedding for point-clouds in an unsupervised manner, through the use of neural-networks. The domain of point-cloud processing via neural-networks is rapidly evolving, with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Matan Shoef , Sharon Fogel , Daniel Cohen-Or

We study the hard problem of 3D object segmentation in complex point clouds without requiring human labels of 3D scenes for supervision. By relying on the similarity of pretrained 2D features or external signals such as motion to group 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zihui Zhang , Yafei Yang , Hongtao Wen , Bo Yang

Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are important data representations in visualization applications. The rapidly growing utility and popularity of point cloud processing strongly motivate a plethora of research activities on large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated outstanding results in numerous domains, some important functionalities are missing. Resolution scalability is one of them. In this work, we introduce a novel architecture, dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Remco Royen , Adrian Munteanu

We propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation method for point clouds that predicts "per-point" labels from just "whole-scene" annotations. The key challenge here is the discrepancy between the target of dense per-point semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shaobo Xia , Jun Yue , Kacper Kania , Leyuan Fang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi , Weiwei Sun

Novel class discovery (NCD) for semantic segmentation is the task of learning a model that can segment unlabelled (novel) classes using only the supervision from labelled (base) classes. This problem has recently been pioneered for 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Luigi Riz , Cristiano Saltori , Elisa Ricci , Fabio Poiesi

For the semantic segmentation of images, state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve high segmentation accuracy if that task is restricted to a closed set of classes. However, as of now DNNs have limited ability to operate in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Svenja Uhlemeyer , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk

Semantic segmentation on 3D point clouds is an important task for 3D scene understanding. While dense labeling on 3D data is expensive and time-consuming, only a few works address weakly supervised semantic point cloud segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Fayao Liu , Tzu-Yi Hung

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

A 3D point cloud describes the real scene precisely and intuitively.To date how to segment diversified elements in such an informative 3D scene is rarely discussed. In this paper, we first introduce a simple and flexible framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Xinlong Wang , Shu Liu , Xiaoyong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Jiaya Jia

Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ye Zhu , Sven Ewan Shepstone , Pablo Martínez-Nuevo , Miklas Strøm Kristoffersen , Fabien Moutarde , Zhuang Fu