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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Anuja Vats , David Völgyes , Martijn Vermeer , Marius Pedersen , Kiran Raja , Daniele S. M. Fantin , Jacob Alexander Hay

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

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

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Point clouds captured with laser scanning systems from forest environments can be utilized in a wide variety of applications within forestry and plant ecology, such as the estimation of tree stem attributes, leaf angle distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lassi Ruoppa , Oona Oinonen , Josef Taher , Matti Lehtomäki , Narges Takhtkeshha , Antero Kukko , Harri Kaartinen , Juha Hyyppä

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Point cloud semantic segmentation plays an essential role in autonomous driving, providing vital information about drivable surfaces and nearby objects that can aid higher level tasks such as path planning and collision avoidance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ozan Unal , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Competitive point cloud semantic segmentation results usually rely on a large amount of labeled data. However, data annotation is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, particularly for three-dimensional point cloud data. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

Deep neural networks have achieved promising performance in supervised point cloud applications, but manual annotation is extremely expensive and time-consuming in supervised learning schemes. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xiaoyuan Luo , Shaolei Liu , Kexue Fu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

The 3D point cloud (3DPC) has significantly evolved and benefited from the advance of deep learning (DL). However, the latter faces various issues, including the lack of data or annotated data, the existence of a significant gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Yassine Himeur , Hamza Kheddar , Abbes Amira , Fodil Fadli , Shadi Atalla , Abigail Copiaco , Wathiq Mansoor

While there are novel point cloud semantic segmentation schemes that continuously surpass state-of-the-art results, the success of learning an effective model usually rely on the availability of abundant labeled data. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

In response to the growing demand for 3D object detection in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, this work focuses on the evaluation of semi-supervised learning approaches for point cloud data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Maksim Golyadkin , Alexander Gambashidze , Ildar Nurgaliev , Ilya Makarov

Point cloud classification is a popular task in 3D vision. However, previous works, usually assume that point clouds at test time are obtained with the same procedure or sensor as those at training time. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Accurate tree detection is of growing importance in applications such as urban planning, forest inventory, and environmental monitoring. In this article, we present an approach to creating tree maps by annotating them in 3D point clouds.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Michael Kölle , Volker Walter , Ivan Shiller , Uwe Soergel

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

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

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

3D scene understanding, e.g., point cloud semantic and instance segmentation, often requires large-scale annotated training data, but clearly, point-wise labels are too tedious to prepare. While some recent methods propose to train a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Zhengzhe Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Chi-Wing Fu