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Impressive performance on point cloud semantic segmentation has been achieved by fully-supervised methods with large amounts of labelled data. As it is labour-intensive to acquire large-scale point cloud data with point-wise labels, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Zongyi Xu , Bo Yuan , Shanshan Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

Empowered by large datasets, e.g., ImageNet, unsupervised learning on large-scale data has enabled significant advances for classification tasks. However, whether the large-scale unsupervised semantic segmentation can be achieved remains…

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Intelligent forest tree breeding has advanced plant phenotyping, yet existing research largely focuses on large-leaf agricultural crops, with limited attention to fine-grained leaf analysis of sapling trees in open-field environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taige Luo , Junru Xie , Chenyang Fan , Bingrong Liu , Ruisheng Wang , Yang Shao , Sheng Xu , Lin Cao

The deficiency of 3D segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to effective point cloud segmentation, especially for scenes in the wild with varieties of different objects. To alleviate this issue, we propose a novel deep graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Haiyan Wang , Xuejian Rong , Liang Yang , Jinglun Feng , Jizhong Xiao , Yingli Tian

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) can obtain tree point cloud with high precision and high density. Efficient classification of wood points and leaf points is essential to study tree structural parameters and ecological characteristics. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jingqian Sun , Pei Wang , Zhiyong Gao , Zichu Liu , Yaxin Li , Xiaozheng Gan

The shift from stand-level to individual-tree-level forest assessments supports improved biodiversity mapping, particularly in boreal ecosystems where tree species like aspen (Populus tremula L.) play a keystone role. While airborne laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Matti Hyyppä , Klaara Salolahti , Eric Hyyppä , Xiaowei Yu , Josef Taher , Leena Matikainen , Matti Lehtomäki , Paula Litkey , Teemu Hakala , Harri Kaartinen , Juha Hyyppä , Antero Kukko

3D point cloud semantic segmentation has a wide range of applications. Recently, weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods have been proposed, aiming to alleviate the expensive and laborious manual annotation process by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiawei Li , Qingyuan Xu , Jing Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

We address the problem of unsupervised semantic segmentation of outdoor LiDAR point clouds in diverse traffic scenarios. The key idea is to leverage the spatiotemporal nature of a dynamic point cloud sequence and introduce drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiao Li , Pan He , Aotian Wu , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

Although unsupervised feature learning has demonstrated its advantages to reducing the workload of data labeling and network design in many fields, existing unsupervised 3D learning methods still cannot offer a generic network for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yu-Qi Yang , Qian-Fang Zou , Zhirong Wu , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from limited labeled examples. Numerous methods for this task focus on utilizing the predictions of unlabeled instances consistency alone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Feng Zheng , Zhenyu He , Liujun Cao , Ling Shao

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

Terrestrial laser scanning technology provides an efficient and accuracy solution for acquiring three-dimensional information of plants. The leaf-wood classification of plant point cloud data is a fundamental step for some forestry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zichu Liu , Qing Zhang , Pei Wang , Yaxin Li , Jingqian Sun

Wood-leaf classification is an essential and fundamental prerequisite in the analysis and estimation of forest attributes from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds,including critical measurements such as diameter at breast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanlong Li , Pei Wang , Yuhan Wu , Jing Ren , Yuhang Gao , Lingyun Zhang , Mingtai Zhang , Wenxin Chen

Mapping standing dead trees is crucial for acquiring information on the effects of climate change on forests and forest biodiversity. However, leveraging high-quality aerial imagery for dead tree segmentation poses challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mete Ahishali , Anis Ur Rahman , Einari Heinaro , Aysen Degerli , Samuli Junttila

The classification of airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds is a critical task of remote sensing and photogrammetry fields. Although recent deep learning-based methods have achieved satisfactory performance, they have ignored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yongqiang Mao , Kaiqiang Chen , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun , Xiaonan Lu , Kun Fu , Martin Weinmann

Instance segmentation is essential for applications such as automated monitoring of plant health, growth, and yield. However, extensive effort is required to create large-scale datasets with pixel-level annotations of each object instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki , Lingling Jin , Ian Stavness

Environmental perception systems are crucial for high-precision mapping and autonomous navigation, with LiDAR serving as a core sensor providing accurate 3D point cloud data. Efficiently processing unstructured point clouds while extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chuang Chen , Yi Lin , Bo Wang , Jing Hu , Xi Wu , Wenyi Ge

Reliable large-scale data on the state of forests is crucial for monitoring ecosystem health, carbon stock, and the impact of climate change. Current knowledge of tree species distribution relies heavily on manual data collection in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Hongjin Lin , Matthew Nazari , Derek Zheng

Access to highly detailed models of heterogeneous forests, spanning from the near surface to above the tree canopy at varying scales, is increasingly in demand. This enables advanced computational tools for analysis, planning, and ecosystem…

The FOR-instance dataset (available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8287792) addresses the challenge of accurate individual tree segmentation from laser scanning data, crucial for understanding forest ecosystems and sustainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Stefano Puliti , Grant Pearse , Peter Surový , Luke Wallace , Markus Hollaus , Maciej Wielgosz , Rasmus Astrup