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As a rising task, panoptic segmentation is faced with challenges in both semantic segmentation and instance segmentation. However, in terms of speed and accuracy, existing LiDAR methods in the field are still limited. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jinke Li , Xiao He , Yang Wen , Yuan Gao , Xiaoqiang Cheng , Dan Zhang

Real-time semantic segmentation, which can be visually understood as the pixel-level classification task on the input image, currently has broad application prospects, especially in the fast-developing fields of autonomous driving and drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Guangwei Gao , Guoan Xu , Juncheng Li , Yi Yu , Huimin Lu , Jian Yang

We propose SFMNet, a novel 3D sparse detector that combines the efficiency of sparse convolutions with the ability to model long-range dependencies. While traditional sparse convolution techniques efficiently capture local structures, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Oren Shrout , Ayellet Tal

In this paper, we focus on exploring effective methods for faster and accurate semantic segmentation. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high-resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently shown state of the art performance on semantic segmentation tasks, however, they still suffer from problems of poor boundary localization and spatial fragmented predictions. The difficulties lie in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Peng Jiang , Fanglin Gu , Yunhai Wang , Changhe Tu , Baoquan Chen

Semantic grids can be useful representations of the scene around an autonomous system. By having information about the layout of the space around itself, a robot can leverage this type of representation for crucial tasks such as navigation…

Semantic segmentation is an essential part of deep learning. In recent years, with the development of remote sensing big data, semantic segmentation has been increasingly used in remote sensing. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Xuan Yang , Shanshan Li , Zhengchao Chen , Jocelyn Chanussot , Xiuping Jia , Bing Zhang , Baipeng Li , Pan Chen

Fast and efficient semantic segmentation of large-scale LiDAR point clouds is a fundamental problem in autonomous driving. To achieve this goal, the existing point-based methods mainly choose to adopt Random Sampling strategy to process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 XianFeng Han , Huixian Cheng , Hang Jiang , Dehong He , Guoqiang Xiao

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds has been widely studied in recent years, with most existing methods focusing on tackling this task using a single scan of the environment. However, leveraging the temporal stream of observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

LIDAR semantic segmentation, which assigns a semantic label to each 3D point measured by the LIDAR, is becoming an essential task for many robotic applications such as autonomous driving. Fast and efficient semantic segmentation methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Iñigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Despite the rapid evolution of semantic segmentation for land cover classification in high-resolution remote sensing imagery, integrating multiple data modalities such as Digital Surface Model (DSM), RGB, and Near-infrared (NIR) remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tong Wang , Guanzhou Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Chenxi Liu , Xiaoliang Tan , Jiaqi Wang , Chanjuan He , Wenlin Zhou

In order to fully utilize spatial information for segmentation and address the challenge of handling areas with significant grayscale variations in remote sensing segmentation, we propose the SFFNet (Spatial and Frequency Domain Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yunsong Yang , Genji Yuan , Jinjiang Li

LiDAR-based semantic perception tasks are critical yet challenging for autonomous driving. Due to the motion of objects and static/dynamic occlusion, temporal information plays an essential role in reinforcing perception by enhancing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xuechao Chen , Shuangjie Xu , Xiaoyi Zou , Tongyi Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Lu Fang

LiDAR and camera are two critical sensors for multi-modal 3D semantic segmentation and are supposed to be fused efficiently and robustly to promise safety in various real-world scenarios. However, existing multi-modal methods face two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Feng Jiang , Chaoping Tu , Gang Zhang , Jun Li , Hanqing Huang , Junyu Lin , Di Feng , Jian Pu

Projecting the point cloud on the 2D spherical range image transforms the LiDAR semantic segmentation to a 2D segmentation task on the range image. However, the LiDAR range image is still naturally different from the regular 2D RGB image;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yiming Zhao , Lin Bai , Xinming Huang

The spatial attention mechanism captures long-range dependencies by aggregating global contextual information to each query location, which is beneficial for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a sparse spatial attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mengyu Liu , Hujun Yin

We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yutaka Momma , Weimin Wang , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Hiroshi Ishikawa

A unified and versatile LiDAR segmentation model with strong robustness and generalizability is desirable for safe autonomous driving perception. This work presents M3Net, a one-of-a-kind framework for fulfilling multi-task, multi-dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Xiaoyang Wu , Runnan Chen , Xin Li , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu , Yuexin Ma

Semantic segmentation networks trained under full supervision for one type of lidar fail to generalize to unseen lidars without intervention. To reduce the performance gap under domain shifts, a recent trend is to leverage vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Björn Michele , Alexandre Boulch , Gilles Puy , Tuan-Hung Vu , Renaud Marlet , Nicolas Courty

Single-point annotation in visual tasks, with the goal of minimizing labelling costs, is becoming increasingly prominent in research. Recently, visual foundation models, such as Segment Anything (SAM), have gained widespread usage due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhaoyang Wei , Pengfei Chen , Xuehui Yu , Guorong Li , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han