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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

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller

Auto-annotation by ensemble of models is an efficient method of learning on unlabeled data. Wrong or inaccurate annotations generated by the ensemble may lead to performance degradation of the trained model. To deal with this problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dror Simon , Miriam Farber , Roman Goldenberg

Annotating 3D LiDAR point clouds for perception tasks is fundamental for many applications e.g., autonomous driving, yet it still remains notoriously labor-intensive. Pretraining-finetuning approach can alleviate the labeling burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangchao Yan , Runjian Chen , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Renqiu Xia , Jiakang Yuan , Hongbin Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan

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

Manual annotation of soiling on surround view cameras is a very challenging and expensive task. The unclear boundary for various soiling categories like water drops or mud particles usually results in a large variance in the annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Michal Uricar , Ganesh Sistu , Lucie Yahiaoui , Senthil Yogamani

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

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

The perception of motion behavior in a dynamic environment holds significant importance for autonomous driving systems, wherein class-agnostic motion prediction methods directly predict the motion of the entire point cloud. While most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Kewei Wang , Yizheng Wu , Jun Cen , Zhiyu Pan , Xingyi Li , Zhe Wang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Advancements in clinical treatment are increasingly constrained by the limitations of supervised learning techniques, which depend heavily on large volumes of annotated data. The annotation process is not only costly but also demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Pranav Singh , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Craig Smuda , Jacopo Cirrone

One of the problems on the way to successful implementation of neural networks is the quality of annotation. For instance, different annotators can annotate images in a different way and very often their decisions do not match exactly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Roman Khudorozhkov , Alexander Koryagin , Alexey Kozhevin

For best performance, today's semantic segmentation methods use large and carefully labeled datasets, requiring expensive annotation budgets. In this work, we show that coarse annotation is a low-cost but highly effective alternative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Anurag Das , Yongqin Xian , Yang He , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele

It is well known that semantic segmentation can be used as an effective intermediate representation for learning driving policies. However, the task of street scene semantic segmentation requires expensive annotations. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Aseem Behl , Kashyap Chitta , Aditya Prakash , Eshed Ohn-Bar , Andreas Geiger

Most existing point cloud instance and semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on strong supervision signals, which require point-level labels for every point in the scene. However, such strong supervision suffers from large annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In this work we propose a pragmatic method that reduces the annotation cost for structured label spaces using active learning. Our approach leverages partial annotation, which reduces labeling costs for structured outputs by selecting only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhisong Zhang , Emma Strubell , Eduard Hovy

Data is the engine of modern computer vision, which necessitates collecting large-scale datasets. This is expensive, and guaranteeing the quality of the labels is a major challenge. In this paper, we investigate efficient annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yuan-Hong Liao , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

Large amounts of annotated data have become more important than ever, especially since the rise of deep learning techniques. However, manual annotations are costly. We propose a tool that enables researchers to create large, high-quality,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Franziska Weeber , Felix Hamborg , Karsten Donnay , Bela Gipp

Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is important for many applications, such as autonomous driving. To train semantic segmentation models, labeled point cloud segmentation datasets are essential. Meanwhile, point cloud labeling is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yu Zhang , Xinyi Zhao , Chongke Bi , Siming Chen

Deep learning usually achieves the best results with complete supervision. In the case of semantic segmentation, this means that large amounts of pixelwise annotations are required to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yi Zhu , Zhongyue Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Tong He , Hang Zhang , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola