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Most existing point cloud instance and semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on strong supervision signals, which require point-level labels for every point in the scene. However, such strong supervision suffers from large annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation is essential for 3D scene understanding, especially as the growing scale of data and high annotation costs associated with fully supervised approaches. Existing methods primarily rely on two forms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Instance segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task in 3D field with numerous applications that involve localizing and segmenting objects in a scene. However, achieving satisfactory results requires a large number of manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhikai Zhang , Jian Ding , Li Jiang , Dengxin Dai , Gui-Song Xia

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has been widely studied to relieve the annotation burden of the traditional segmentation task. In this paper, we show that existing fully-annotated base categories can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

Current 3D segmentation methods heavily rely on large-scale point-cloud datasets, which are notoriously laborious to annotate. Few attempts have been made to circumvent the need for dense per-point annotations. In this work, we look at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Julian Chibane , Francis Engelmann , Tuan Anh Tran , Gerard Pons-Moll

LiDAR-based 3D object detection and semantic segmentation are critical tasks in 3D scene understanding. Traditional detection and segmentation methods supervise their models through bounding box labels and semantic mask labels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Maoji Zheng , Ziyu Xu , Qiming Xia , Hai Wu , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Conventional point cloud semantic segmentation methods usually employ an encoder-decoder architecture, where mid-level features are locally aggregated to extract geometric information. However, the over-reliance on these class-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ziyi Wang , Yongming Rao , Xumin Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point cloud understanding methods merely perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework that simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kangcheng Liu

Tooth point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in many orthodontic applications. Current research mainly focuses on fully supervised learning which demands expensive and tedious manual point-wise annotation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hui Chen , Yixuan Yuan

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

Recognizing 3D part instances from a 3D point cloud is crucial for 3D structure and scene understanding. Several learning-based approaches use semantic segmentation and instance center prediction as training tasks and fail to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Chunyu Sun , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Manually annotating complex scene point cloud datasets is both costly and error-prone. To reduce the reliance on labeled data, a new model called SnapshotNet is proposed as a self-supervised feature learning approach, which directly works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xingye Li , Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

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

Traditional 3D segmentation methods can only recognize a fixed range of classes that appear in the training set, which limits their application in real-world scenarios due to the lack of generalization ability. Large-scale visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuanbin Wang , Shaofei Huang , Yulu Gao , Zhen Wang , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Si Liu

In this paper, we propose a similarity-aware fusion network (SAFNet) to adaptively fuse 2D images and 3D point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation. Existing fusion-based methods achieve remarkable performances by integrating information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Linqing Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

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

Semantic segmentation of point clouds usually requires exhausting efforts of human annotations, hence it attracts wide attention to the challenging topic of learning from unlabeled or weaker forms of annotations. In this paper, we take the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zisheng Chen , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Zhipeng Zhou , Haihong Xiao , Baigui Sun , Xuansong Xie , Wenxiong Kang