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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

This manuscript presents a series of my selected contributions to the topic of label-efficient learning in computer vision and remote sensing. The central focus of this research is to develop and adapt methods that can learn effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Minh-Tan Pham

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

This paper presents the first study on Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) for multimodal 3D panoptic segmentation (mm-3DPS), aiming to improve generalization under domain shifts commonly encountered in real-world autonomous driving. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yining Pan , Shijie Li , Yuchen Wu , Xulei Yang , Na Zhao

Semi-supervised learning for LiDAR semantic segmentation often suffers from error propagation and confirmation bias caused by noisy pseudo-labels. To tackle this chronic issue, we introduce RePL, a novel framework that enhances pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Donghyeon Kwon , Taegyu Park , Suha Kwak

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

3D object detection is an important task in computer vision. Most existing methods require a large number of high-quality 3D annotations, which are expensive to collect. Especially for outdoor scenes, the problem becomes more severe due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Hongyi Xu , Fengqi Liu , Qianyu Zhou , Jinkun Hao , Zhijie Cao , Zhengyang Feng , Lizhuang Ma

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D vision that serves a wide range of applications. Although great progresses have been made these years, its practical usability is still limited by the availability of training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yixun Liang , Hao He , Shishi Xiao , Hao Lu , Yingcong Chen

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models such as Segment-Anything Model (SAM) and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable success and revolutionized the field of computer vision. These foundation vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shichao Dong , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

With the development of 3D and 2D data acquisition techniques, it has become easy to obtain point clouds and images of scenes simultaneously, which further facilitates dual-modal semantic segmentation. Most existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Qiulei Dong , Jianan Li , Shuang Deng

We present a novel active learning framework for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation that, for the first time, integrates large language models (LLMs) to construct hierarchical label structures and guide uncertainty-based sample selection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chenxi Li , Nuo Chen , Fengyun Tan , Yantong Chen , Bochun Yuan , Tianrui Li , Chongshou Li

LiDAR is widely used to capture accurate 3D outdoor scene structures. However, LiDAR produces many undesirable noise points in snowy weather, which hamper analyzing meaningful 3D scene structures. Semantic segmentation with snow labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gwangtak Bae , Byungjun Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Jihong Min , Inwook Shim

Deep learning-based segmentation techniques have shown remarkable performance in brain segmentation, yet their success hinges on the availability of extensive labeled training data. Acquiring such vast datasets, however, poses a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jihoon Cho , Suhyun Ahn , Beomju Kim , Hyungjoon Bae , Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Kyungeun Lee , Georges Elfakhri , Van Wedeen , Jonghye Woo , Jinah Park

Deep learning has achieved impressive results in nuclei segmentation, but the massive requirement for pixel-wise labels remains a significant challenge. To alleviate the annotation burden, existing methods generate pseudo masks for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ziyue Wang , Ye Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Linghan Cai , Yongbing Zhang

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving by enabling detailed understanding of 3D environments. However, annotating LiDAR point clouds is extremely costly and requires assigning semantic labels to millions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ruiyu Mao , Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Xulong Tang , Yunhui Guo

Adverse weather conditions significantly degrade the performance of LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation networks by introducing large distribution shifts. Existing augmentation-based methods attempt to enhance robustness by simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wangkai Li , Zhaoyang Li , Yuwen Pan , Rui Sun , Yujia Chen , Tianzhu Zhang

Manually annotating complex scene point cloud datasets is both costly and error-prone. To reduce the reliance on labeled data, a new model called SnapshotNet is proposed as a self-supervised feature learning approach, which directly works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xingye Li , Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu