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In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

Recent years have witnessed the growth of point cloud based applications because of its realistic and fine-grained representation of 3D objects and scenes. However, it is a challenging problem to compress sparse, unstructured, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhu Li , Zhan Ma

Few-shot semantic segmentation models aim to segment images after learning from only a few annotated examples. A key challenge for them is how to avoid overfitting because limited training data is available. While prior works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

Point cloud segmentation (PCS) aims to make per-point predictions and enables robots and autonomous driving cars to understand the environment. The range image is a dense representation of a large-scale outdoor point cloud, and segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bike Chen , Chen Gong , Antti Tikanmäki , Juha Röning

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), thanks to the significant reduction of data annotation costs, has been an active research topic for large-scale 3D scene understanding. However, the existing SSL-based methods suffer from severe training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mengtian Li , Shaohui Lin , Zihan Wang , Yunhang Shen , Baochang Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Point cloud semantic segmentation plays an essential role in autonomous driving, providing vital information about drivable surfaces and nearby objects that can aid higher level tasks such as path planning and collision avoidance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ozan Unal , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (CD-FSS) seeks to segment unknown classes in unseen domains using only a few annotated examples. This setting is inherently challenging: source and target domains exhibit substantial distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pasquale De Marinis , Pieter M. Blok , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is a challenging problem with numerous real-world applications. While deep learning has revolutionized the field of image semantic segmentation, its impact on point cloud data has been limited so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Patrik Tosteberg , Goutam Bhat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

3D point cloud semantic segmentation has a wide range of applications. Recently, weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods have been proposed, aiming to alleviate the expensive and laborious manual annotation process by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiawei Li , Qingyuan Xu , Jing Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally fine-tune a model (trained on base classes) for a novel set of classes using a few examples without forgetting the previous training. Recent efforts address this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Townim Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Sameera Ramasinghe , Sahar Ahmadi , Morteza Saberi , Shafin Rahman

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models such as Segment-Anything Model (SAM) and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable success and revolutionized the field of computer vision. These foundation vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shichao Dong , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

Few-shot fine-grained recognition (FS-FGR) aims to recognize novel fine-grained categories with the help of limited available samples. Undoubtedly, this task inherits the main challenges from both few-shot learning and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zican Zha , Hao Tang , Yunlian Sun , Jinhui Tang

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

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation addresses the challenge of segmenting objects in query images with only a handful of annotated examples. However, many previous state-of-the-art methods either have to discard intricate local semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Jahed Motlagh

Partial point cloud registration is essential for autonomous perception and 3D scene understanding, yet it remains challenging owing to structural ambiguity, partial visibility, and noise. We address these issues by proposing Confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhe Xu , Zhiqiang Tian

Point cloud upsampling is to densify a sparse point set acquired from 3D sensors, providing a denser representation for the underlying surface. Existing methods divide the input points into small patches and upsample each patch separately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chen Long , Wenxiao Zhang , Ruihui Li , Hao Wang , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang

Semantic segmentation of city-scale point clouds is a critical technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perception systems, enabling the classification of 3D points without relying on any visual information to achieve comprehensive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jialei Xu , Zizhuang Wei , Weikang You , Linyun Li , Weijian Sun