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Outdoor LiDAR point cloud 3D instance segmentation is a crucial task in autonomous driving. However, it requires laborious human efforts to annotate the point cloud for training a segmentation model. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yongxuan Lv , Yuzhi Wu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Deep learning methods require massive of annotated data for optimizing parameters. For example, datasets attached with accurate bounding box annotations are essential for modern object detection tasks. However, labeling with such pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shaoru Wang , Jin Gao , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

While multi-class 3D detectors are needed in many robotics applications, training them with fully labeled datasets can be expensive in labeling cost. An alternative approach is to have targeted single-class labels on disjoint data samples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Mao Ye , Chenxi Liu , Maoqing Yao , Weiyue Wang , Zhaoqi Leng , Charles R. Qi , Dragomir Anguelov

Current methods for 3D semantic segmentation propose training models with limited annotations to address the difficulty of annotating large, irregular, and unordered 3D point cloud data. They usually focus on the 3D domain only, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lechun You , Zhonghua Wu , Weide Liu , Xulei Yang , Jun Cheng , Wei Zhou , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Guosheng Lin

Active learning approaches in computer vision generally involve querying strong labels for data. However, previous works have shown that weak supervision can be effective in training models for vision tasks while greatly reducing annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sai Vikas Desai , Akshay L Chandra , Wei Guo , Seishi Ninomiya , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

While unlabeled image data is often plentiful, the costs of high-quality labels pose an important practical challenge: Which images should one select for labeling to use the annotation budget for a particular target task most effectively?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Niclas Popp , Dan Zhang , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Matthias Hein , Lukas Schott

Recent aerial object detection models rely on a large amount of labeled training data, which requires unaffordable manual labeling costs in large aerial scenes with dense objects. Active learning effectively reduces the data labeling cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Dong Liang , Jing-Wei Zhang , Ying-Peng Tang , Sheng-Jun Huang

This paper investigates indoor point cloud semantic segmentation under scene-level annotation, which is less explored compared to methods relying on sparse point-level labels. In the absence of precise point-level labels, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Xingxing Weng , Jing Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Image-based 3D detection is an indispensable component of the perception system for autonomous driving. However, it still suffers from the unsatisfying performance, one of the main reasons for which is the limited training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xinzhu Ma , Yuan Meng , Yinmin Zhang , Lei Bai , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang

For further progress in video object segmentation (VOS), larger, more diverse, and more challenging datasets will be necessary. However, densely labeling every frame with pixel masks does not scale to large datasets. We use a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Paul Voigtlaender , Lishu Luo , Chun Yuan , Yong Jiang , Bastian Leibe

In this paper, we propose a weakly-supervised approach for 3D object detection, which makes it possible to train a strong 3D detector with position-level annotations (i.e. annotations of object centers). In order to remedy the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiuwei Xu , Yifan Wang , Yu Zheng , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The Unified Object Detection (UOD) task aims to achieve object detection of all merged categories through training on multiple datasets, and is of great significance in comprehensive object detection scenarios. In this paper, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 XiaoJun Tang , Jingru Wang , Zeyu Shangguan , Darun Tang , Yuyu Liu

Accurate semantic segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds is limited by costly manual annotation. We propose a semi-automated, uncertainty-aware pipeline that integrates spherical projection, feature enrichment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fei Zhang , Rob Chancia , Josie Clapp , Amirhossein Hassanzadeh , Dimah Dera , Richard MacKenzie , Jan van Aardt

Semantic understanding of 3D point cloud relies on learning models with massively annotated data, which, in many cases, are expensive or difficult to collect. This has led to an emerging research interest in semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Wanyue Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time-consuming. While interactive segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative, they become unaffordable at a large scale because the cost grows linearly with the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Ethan Weber , Antonio Torralba

Accurate and efficient object detection is crucial for safe and efficient operation of earth-moving equipment in mining. Traditional 2D image-based methods face limitations in dynamic and complex mine environments. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mehala Balamurali , Ehsan Mihankhah

Learned object detection methods based on fusion of LiDAR and camera data require labeled training samples, but niche applications, such as warehouse robotics or automated infrastructure, require semantic classes not available in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ryan Rubel , Andrew Dudash , Mohammad Goli , James O'Hara , Karl Wunderlich

Deep neural networks deliver state-of-the-art visual recognition, but they rely on large datasets, which are time-consuming to annotate. These datasets are typically annotated in two stages: (1) determining the presence of object classes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

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

Current 3D object detection methods heavily rely on an enormous amount of annotations. Semi-supervised learning can be used to alleviate this issue. Previous semi-supervised 3D object detection methods directly follow the practice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Xiaopei Wu , Yang Zhao , Liang Peng , Hua Chen , Xiaoshui Huang , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Wanli Ouyang