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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

As the exorbitant expense of labeling autopilot datasets and the growing trend of utilizing unlabeled data, semi-supervised segmentation on point clouds becomes increasingly imperative. Intuitively, finding out more ``unspoken words''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yujun Chen , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie

In autonomous driving, 3D LiDAR plays a crucial role in understanding the vehicle's surroundings. However, the newly emerged, unannotated objects presents few-shot learning problem for semantic segmentation. This paper addresses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Junbao Zhou , Jilin Mei , Pengze Wu , Liang Chen , Fangzhou Zhao , Xijun Zhao , Yu Hu

3D part segmentation is a crucial and challenging task in 3D perception, playing a vital role in applications such as robotics, 3D generation, and 3D editing. Recent methods harness the powerful Vision Language Models (VLMs) for 2D-to-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yunhan Yang , Yukun Huang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Liangjun Lu , Xiaoyang Wu , Edmund Y. Lam , Yan-Pei Cao , Xihui Liu

LiDAR perception is fundamental to robotics, enabling machines to understand their environment in 3D. A crucial task for LiDAR-based scene understanding and navigation is ground segmentation. However, existing methods are either handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ted Lentsch , Santiago Montiel-Marín , Holger Caesar , Dariu M. Gavrila

Poles and building edges are frequently observable objects on urban roads, conveying reliable hints for various computer vision tasks. To repetitively extract them as features and perform association between discrete LiDAR frames for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiangrui Zhao , Sheng Yang , Tianxin Huang , Jun Chen , Teng Ma , Mingyang Li , Yong Liu

Addressing Lidar Panoptic Segmentation (LPS ) is crucial for safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. LPS aims to recognize and segment lidar points w.r.t. a pre-defined vocabulary of semantic classes, including thing classes of countable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anirudh S Chakravarthy , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Peiyun Hu , Laura Leal-Taixe , Shu Kong , Deva Ramanan , Aljosa Osep

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment objects from previously unseen classes using only a limited number of labeled examples. In this paper, we introduce Label Anything, a novel transformer-based architecture designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pasquale De Marinis , Nicola Fanelli , Raffaele Scaringi , Emanuele Colonna , Giuseppe Fiameni , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Densely annotating LiDAR point clouds is costly, which restrains the scalability of fully-supervised learning methods. In this work, we study the underexplored semi-supervised learning (SSL) in LiDAR segmentation. Our core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Lingdong Kong , Jiawei Ren , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds is an important task in autonomous driving. However, training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large datasets which are costly to label. It is critical to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minghua Liu , Yin Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Boqing Gong , Hao Su , Dragomir Anguelov

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a new paradigmatic vision foundation model, showcasing potent zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting. Despite SAM finding applications and adaptations in various domains, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xumeng Han , Longhui Wei , Xuehui Yu , Zhiyang Dou , Xin He , Kuiran Wang , Yingfei Sun , Zhenjun Han , Qi Tian

Current 3D scene segmentation methods are heavily dependent on manually annotated 3D training datasets. Such manual annotations are labor-intensive, and often lack fine-grained details. Importantly, models trained on this data typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Rui Huang , Songyou Peng , Ayca Takmaz , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Francis Engelmann

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

State-of-the-art lidar panoptic segmentation (LPS) methods follow bottom-up segmentation-centric fashion wherein they build upon semantic segmentation networks by utilizing clustering to obtain object instances. In this paper, we re-think…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Abhinav Agarwalla , Xuhua Huang , Jason Ziglar , Francesco Ferroni , Laura Leal-Taixé , James Hays , Aljoša Ošep , Deva Ramanan

Segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as the leading approach for zero-shot learning in segmentation tasks, offering the advantage of avoiding pixel-wise annotations. It is particularly appealing in medical image segmentation, where the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Ziyi Huang , Hongshan Liu , Haofeng Zhang , Xueshen Li , Haozhe Liu , Fuyong Xing , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

Deep learning applications on LiDAR data suffer from a strong domain gap when applied to different sensors or tasks. In order for these methods to obtain similar accuracy on different data in comparison to values reported on public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Laurenz Reichardt , Nikolas Ebert , Oliver Wasenmüller

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays a critical role in maritime surveillance, yet deep learning for SAR analysis is limited by the lack of pixel-level annotations. This paper explores how general-purpose vision foundation models can enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Islam Mansour , Francescopaolo Sica , Michael Schmitt

Amodal instance segmentation, which aims to detect and segment both visible and invisible parts of objects in images, plays a crucial role in various applications including autonomous driving, robotic manipulation, and scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei-En Tai , Yu-Lin Shih , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hwann-Tzong Chen

3D semantic segmentation plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving and road infrastructure analysis, yet state-of-the-art 3D models are prone to severe domain shift when deployed across different datasets. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Fremont