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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

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

The task of LiDAR-based 3D Open-Vocabulary Detection (3D OVD) requires the detector to learn to detect novel objects from point clouds without off-the-shelf training labels. Previous methods focus on the learning of object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xingyu Peng , Si Liu , Chen Gao , Yan Bai , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Huaxia Xia

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment objects from arbitrary text categories without requiring densely annotated datasets. Although contrastive learning based models enable zero-shot segmentation, they often lose fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Huy Che , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

Aspect-based Opinion Summary (AOS), consisting of aspect discovery and sentiment classification steps, has recently been emerging as one of the most crucial data mining tasks in e-commerce systems. Along this direction, the LDA-based model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Tai Hoang , Huy Le , Tho Quan

Semantic segmentation across visual modalities such as 3D point clouds and panoramic images remains a challenging task, primarily due to the scarcity of annotated data and the limited adaptability of fixed-label models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sandeep Inuganti , Hideaki Kanayama , Kanta Shimizu , Mahdi Chamseddine , Soichiro Yokota , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

Open-vocabulary detectors are proposed to locate and recognize objects in novel classes. However, variations in vision-aware language vocabulary data used for open-vocabulary learning can lead to unfair and unreliable evaluations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ying Liu , Yijing Hua , Haojiang Chai , Yanbo Wang , TengQi Ye

Object segmentation in three-dimensional (3-D) point clouds is a critical task for robots capable of 3-D perception. Despite the impressive performance of deep learning-based approaches on object segmentation in 2-D images, deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Brian H. Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Yan Wang , Bharath Hariharan , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Mark Campbell

Curb detection is essential for environmental awareness in Automated Driving (AD), as it typically limits drivable and non-drivable areas. Annotated data are necessary for developing and validating an AD function. However, the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jose Luis Apellániz , Mikel García , Nerea Aranjuelo , Javier Barandiarán , Marcos Nieto

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in embodied agents and augmented reality systems. Existing methods adopt neurel rendering methods as 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jun Guo , Xiaojian Ma , Yue Fan , Huaping Liu , Qing Li

This work presents OVIR-3D, a straightforward yet effective method for open-vocabulary 3D object instance retrieval without using any 3D data for training. Given a language query, the proposed method is able to return a ranked set of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shiyang Lu , Haonan Chang , Eric Pu Jing , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

In contrast to extensive studies on general vision, pre-training for scalable visual autonomous driving remains seldom explored. Visual autonomous driving applications require features encompassing semantics, 3D geometry, and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zetong Yang , Li Chen , Yanan Sun , Hongyang Li

A key challenge for autonomous vehicles is to navigate in unseen dynamic environments. Separating moving objects from static ones is essential for navigation, pose estimation, and understanding how other traffic participants are likely to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Ignacio Vizzo , Lucas Nunes , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

In autonomous driving, LiDAR sensors are vital for acquiring 3D point clouds, providing reliable geometric information. However, traditional sampling methods of preprocessing often ignore semantic features, leading to detail loss and ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hao Jing , Anhong Wang , Lijun Zhao , Yakun Yang , Donghan Bu , Jing Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou

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

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are mostly reliant on LiDAR sensors which enable spatial perception of their surroundings and help make driving decisions. Recent works demonstrated attacks that aim to hide objects from AV perception, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhongyuan Hau , Soteris Demetriou , Emil C. Lupu

The aim of audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is to precisely differentiate audible objects within videos down to the pixel level. Traditional approaches often tackle this challenge by combining information from various modalities, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Dawei Hao , Yuxin Mao , Bowen He , Xiaodong Han , Yuchao Dai , Yiran Zhong

It is laborious to manually label point cloud data for training high-quality 3D object detectors. This work proposes a weakly supervised approach for 3D object detection, only requiring a small set of weakly annotated scenes, associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Qinghao Meng , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

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