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Deep learning approaches have made tremendous progress in the field of semantic segmentation over the past few years. However, most current approaches operate in the 2D image space. Direct semantic segmentation of unstructured 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Francis Engelmann , Theodora Kontogianni , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

There is a recent trend in the LiDAR perception field towards unifying multiple tasks in a single strong network with improved performance, as opposed to using separate networks for each task. In this paper, we introduce a new LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zixiang Zhou , Dongqiangzi Ye , Weijia Chen , Yufei Xie , Yu Wang , Panqu Wang , Hassan Foroosh

The increasing frequency of natural disasters poses severe threats to human lives and leads to substantial economic losses. While 3D semantic segmentation is crucial for post-disaster assessment, existing deep learning models lack datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Nhut Le , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

In this paper, we introduce a framework for segmenting instances of a common object class by multiple active contour evolution over semantic segmentation maps of images obtained through fully convolutional networks. The contour evolution is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Przemyslaw Polewski , Jacquelyn Shelton , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

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

State-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation models are trained on off-the-shelf public benchmarks, but they will inevitably face the challenge of recognition accuracy drop when these well-trained models are deployed to a new domain. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ben Fei , Siyuan Huang , Jiakang Yuan , Botian Shi , Bo Zhang , Weidong Yang , Min Dou , Yikang Li

The 3D point cloud representation plays a crucial role in preserving the geometric fidelity of the physical world, enabling more accurate complex 3D environments. While humans naturally comprehend the intricate relationships between objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Vishal Thengane , Xiatian Zhu , Salim Bouzerdoum , Son Lam Phung , Yunpeng Li

Vegetation is crucial for sustainable and resilient cities providing various ecosystem services and well-being of humans. However, vegetation is under critical stress with rapid urbanization and expanding infrastructure footprints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Aditya Aditya , Bharat Lohani , Jagannath Aryal , Stephan Winter

Large-scale delineation of individual trees from remote sensing imagery is crucial to the advancement of ecological research, particularly as climate change and other environmental factors rapidly transform forest landscapes across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Michelle Chen , David Russell , Amritha Pallavoor , Derek Young , Jane Wu

In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

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

In this work, we propose SAM3D, a novel framework that is able to predict masks in 3D point clouds by leveraging the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) in RGB images without further training or finetuning. For a point cloud of a 3D scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yunhan Yang , Xiaoyang Wu , Tong He , Hengshuang Zhao , Xihui Liu

Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) point clouds over large forested areas can be processed to segment individual trees and subsequently extract tree-level information. Existing segmentation procedures typically detect more than 90% of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Hamid Hamraz , Marco A. Contreras , Jun Zhang

In this paper, we propose PointSeg, a real-time end-to-end semantic segmentation method for road-objects based on spherical images. We take the spherical image, which is transformed from the 3D LiDAR point clouds, as input of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yuan Wang , Tianyue Shi , Peng Yun , Lei Tai , Ming Liu

Tabular data high-stakes critical decision-making in domains such as finance, healthcare, and scientific discovery. Yet, learning effectively from tabular data in few-shot settings, where labeled examples are scarce, remains a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhihan Yang , Jiaqi Wei , Xiang Zhang , Haoyu Dong , Yiwen Wang , Xiaoke Guo , Pengkun Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Chenyu You

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

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Weiguang Zhao , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Being able to learn an effective semantic representation directly on raw point clouds has become a central topic in 3D understanding. Despite rapid progress, state-of-the-art encoders are restrictive to canonicalized point clouds, and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jun-Kun Chen , Yu-Xiong Wang

Alternative unsplit-filed-based absorbing boundary condition (ABC) computation approach for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is efficiently proposed based on the deep differentiable forest. The deep differentiable forest (DDF) model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yingshi Chen , Naixing Feng