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Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lingdong Kong , Xiang Xu , Jiawei Ren , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Wei Tsang Ooi , Ziwei Liu

Computer vision techniques play a central role in the perception stack of autonomous vehicles. Such methods are employed to perceive the vehicle surroundings given sensor data. 3D LiDAR sensors are commonly used to collect sparse 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

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

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

It is a crucial step to achieve effective semantic segmentation of lane marking during the construction of the lane level high-precision map. In recent years, many image semantic segmentation methods have been proposed. These methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Ruochen Yin , Biao Yu , Huapeng Wu , Yutao Song , Runxin Niu

LiDAR has become a standard sensor for autonomous driving applications as they provide highly precise 3D point clouds. LiDAR is also robust for low-light scenarios at night-time or due to shadows where the performance of cameras is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Khaled El Madawy , Hazem Rashed , Ahmad El Sallab , Omar Nasr , Hanan Kamel , Senthil Yogamani

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is essential for enhanced high-level perception in autonomous platforms. Furthermore, given the increasing deployment of LiDAR sensors onboard of cars and drones, a special emphasis is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yara Ali Alnaggar , Mohamed Afifi , Karim Amer , Mohamed Elhelw

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Panoptic segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task that enables autonomous vehicles to comprehend their vicinity using their highly accurate and reliable LiDAR sensors. Existing top-down approaches tackle this problem by either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kshitij Sirohi , Rohit Mohan , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

In recent studies, numerous previous works emphasize the importance of semantic segmentation of LiDAR data as a critical component to the development of driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. However, many state-of-the-art…

LiDAR and camera are two modalities available for 3D semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. The popular LiDAR-only methods severely suffer from inferior segmentation on small and distant objects due to insufficient laser points, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jiale Li , Hang Dai , Hao Han , Yong Ding

Autonomous robotic systems and self driving cars rely on accurate perception of their surroundings as the safety of the passengers and pedestrians is the top priority. Semantic segmentation is one the essential components of environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ran Cheng , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Enxu Li , Bingbing Liu

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

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point clouds understanding methods only perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework which simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kangcheng Liu

Semantic segmentation of point clouds is an essential task for understanding the environment in autonomous driving and robotics. Recent range-based works achieve real-time efficiency, while point- and voxel-based methods produce better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Daniel Fusaro , Simone Mosco , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

We propose LU-Net -- for LiDAR U-Net, a new method for the semantic segmentation of a 3D LiDAR point cloud. Instead of applying some global 3D segmentation method such as PointNet, we propose an end-to-end architecture for LiDAR point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pierre Biasutti , Vincent Lepetit , Jean-François Aujol , Mathieu Brédif , Aurélie Bugeau

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Many point-based semantic segmentation methods have been designed for indoor scenarios, but they struggle if they are applied to point clouds that are captured by a LiDAR sensor in an outdoor environment. In order to make these methods more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shijie Li , Yun Liu , Juergen Gall