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LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving. Existing voxel-based methods for LiDAR semantic segmentation apply uniform partition to the 3D LiDAR point cloud to form a structured representation based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xuzhi Wang , Wei Feng , Lingdong Kong , Liang Wan

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller

The ability to detect and segment moving objects in a scene is essential for building consistent maps, making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of moving object segmentation…

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

State-of-the-art methods for driving-scene LiDAR-based perception (including point cloud semantic segmentation, panoptic segmentation and 3D detection, \etc) often project the point clouds to 2D space and then process them via 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xinge Zhu , Hui Zhou , Tai Wang , Fangzhou Hong , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Hongsheng Li , Ruigang Yang , Dahua Lin

Autonomous robotic systems and self driving cars rely on accurate perception of their surroundings as the safety of the passengers and pedestrians is the top priority. Semantic segmentation is one the essential components of environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ran Cheng , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Enxu Li , Bingbing Liu

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

4D LiDAR semantic segmentation, also referred to as multi-scan semantic segmentation, plays a crucial role in enhancing the environmental understanding capabilities of autonomous vehicles or robots. It classifies the semantic category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Neng Wang , Ruibin Guo , Chenghao Shi , Ziyue Wang , Hui Zhang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Xieyuanli Chen

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale driving-scene LiDAR semantic segmentation often project and process the point clouds in the 2D space. The projection methods includes spherical projection, bird-eye view projection, etc. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Yuexin Ma , Zhe Wang , Hongsheng Li , Dahua Lin

We present a self-supervised learning approach for the semantic segmentation of lidar frames. Our method is used to train a deep point cloud segmentation architecture without any human annotation. The annotation process is automated with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hugues Thomas , Ben Agro , Mona Gridseth , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

A fast and accurate panoptic segmentation system for LiDAR point clouds is crucial for autonomous driving vehicles to understand the surrounding objects and scenes. Existing approaches usually rely on proposals or clustering to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Enxu Li , Ryan Razani , Yixuan Xu , Bingbing Liu

As a rising task, panoptic segmentation is faced with challenges in both semantic segmentation and instance segmentation. However, in terms of speed and accuracy, existing LiDAR methods in the field are still limited. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jinke Li , Xiao He , Yang Wen , Yuan Gao , Xiaoqiang Cheng , Dan Zhang

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR data presents considerable challenges, particularly when dealing with diverse sensor types and configurations. However, incorporating semantic information can significantly enhance the accuracy and robustness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sven Ochs , Philip Schörner , Marc René Zofka , J. Marius Zöllner

Referring 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

Panoptic segmentation aims to address semantic and instance segmentation simultaneously in a unified framework. However, an efficient solution of panoptic segmentation in applications like autonomous driving is still an open research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Enxu Li , Ryan Razani , Yixuan Xu , Liu Bingbing

Autonomous vehicles rely on LiDAR sensors to generate 3D point clouds for accurate segmentation and object detection. In a context of a smart city framework, we would like to understand the effect that transmission (compression) can have on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Tiago de S. Fernandes , Ricardo L. de Queiroz