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Point cloud semantic segmentation is a crucial task in 3D scene understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on employing a large number of annotated labels for supervised semantic segmentation. Nonetheless, manually labeling such large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingmei Cheng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

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

Open-World Instance Segmentation (OWIS) is an emerging research topic that aims to segment class-agnostic object instances from images. The mainstream approaches use a two-stage segmentation framework, which first locates the candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Xizhe Xue , Dongdong Yu , Lingqiao Liu , Yu Liu , Satoshi Tsutsui , Ying Li , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Song , Mike Zheng Shou

Current closed-set instance segmentation models rely on pre-defined class labels for each mask during training and evaluation, largely limiting their ability to detect novel objects. Open-world instance segmentation (OWIS) models address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Chengxiang Fan , Weian Mao , Chenchen Jing , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Noisy labels, inevitably existing in pseudo segmentation labels generated from weak object-level annotations, severely hampers model optimization for semantic segmentation. Previous works often rely on massive hand-crafted losses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shenwang Jiang , Jianan Li , Ying Wang , Wenxuan Wu , Jizhou Zhang , Bo Huang , Tingfa Xu

Point cloud segmentation with scene-level annotations is a promising but challenging task. Currently, the most popular way is to employ the class activation map (CAM) to locate discriminative regions and then generate point-level pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhuheng Lu , Peng Zhang , Yuewei Dai , Weiqing Li , Zhiyong Su

Point-cloud semantic segmentation underpins a wide range of critical applications. Although recent deep architectures and large-scale datasets have driven impressive closed-set performance, these models struggle to recognize or properly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wang Fang , Shirin Rahimi , Olivia Bennett , Sophie Carter , Mitra Hassani , Xu Lan , Omid Javadi , Lucas Mitchell

Semantic segmentation is essential for automating remote sensing analysis in fields like ecology. However, fine-grained analysis of complex aerial or underwater imagery remains an open challenge, even for state-of-the-art models. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cesar Borja , Carlos Plou , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art methods for semantic point cloud segmentation, the success of which relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, it can be extremely time-consuming and prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Ke Chen , Lile Cai , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds is an important task in autonomous driving. However, training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large datasets which are costly to label. It is critical to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minghua Liu , Yin Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Boqing Gong , Hao Su , Dragomir Anguelov

3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to group all points into different semantic categories, which benefits important applications such as point cloud scene reconstruction and understanding. Existing supervised point cloud semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Canyu Zhang , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Ziyu Zhao , Song Wang

Many existing approaches for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation are fully supervised. These fully supervised approaches heavily rely on large amounts of labeled training data that are difficult to obtain and cannot segment new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Na Zhao , Tat-Seng Chua , Gim Hee Lee

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Training semantic segmentation models requires a large amount of finely annotated data, making it hard to quickly adapt to novel classes not satisfying this condition. Few-Shot Segmentation (FS-Seg) tackles this problem with many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Michelle Shu , Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of text-defined categories, demanding reliable generalization to unseen classes at inference. Although modern vision-language models (VLMs) support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Saikat Dutta , Biplab Banerjee , Hamid Rezatofighi

3D instance segmentation methods often require fully-annotated dense labels for training, which are costly to obtain. In this paper, we present ClickSeg, a novel click-level weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation method that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Leyao Liu , Tao Kong , Minzhao Zhu , Jiashuo Fan , Lu Fang

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision that involves segmenting images into semantically meaningful regions at the pixel level. However, existing approaches often rely on expensive human annotations as supervision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Guocheng Qian , Bernard Ghanem , Zhicheng Yan , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Sean Chang Culatana

Open-world object detection (OWOD) extends traditional object detection to identifying both known and unknown object, necessitating continuous model adaptation as new annotations emerge. Current approaches face significant limitations: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Junwen Duan , Wei Xue , Ziyao Kang , Shixia Liu , Jiazhi Xia

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai