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A main bottleneck of learning-based robotic scene understanding methods is the heavy reliance on extensive annotated training data, which often limits their generalization ability. In LiDAR panoptic segmentation, this challenge becomes even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ahmet Selim Çanakçı , Niclas Vödisch , Kürsat Petek , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Accurate semantic segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds is limited by costly manual annotation. We propose a semi-automated, uncertainty-aware pipeline that integrates spherical projection, feature enrichment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fei Zhang , Rob Chancia , Josie Clapp , Amirhossein Hassanzadeh , Dimah Dera , Richard MacKenzie , Jan van Aardt

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 segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D. Despite recent progress on point cloud segmentation with the power of deep networks, current deep learning methods based on the clean label assumptions may fail with noisy labels. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Shuquan Ye , Dongdong Chen , Songfang Han , Jing Liao

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

In the past few years we have seen great advances in object perception (particularly in 4D space-time dimensions) thanks to deep learning methods. However, they typically rely on large amounts of high-quality labels to achieve good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Bin Yang , Min Bai , Ming Liang , Wenyuan Zeng , Raquel Urtasun

The development of 2D foundation models for image segmentation has been significantly advanced by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, achieving similar success in 3D models remains a challenge due to issues such as non-unified data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayuan Gu , Tung Yen Chiang , Fanbo Xiang , Hao Su

3D image segmentation is one of the most important and ubiquitous problems in medical image processing. It provides detailed quantitative analysis for accurate disease diagnosis, abnormal detection, and classification. Currently deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Zhenxi Zhang , Jie Li , Zhusi Zhong , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Point clouds analysis has grasped researchers' eyes in recent years, while 3D semantic segmentation remains a problem. Most deep point clouds models directly conduct learning on 3D point clouds, which will suffer from the severe sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhenhong Zou , Yizhe Li

Active learning is particularly of interest for semantic segmentation, where annotations are costly. Previous academic studies focused on datasets that are already very diverse and where the model is trained in a supervised manner with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sudhanshu Mittal , Joshua Niemeijer , Jörg P. Schäfer , Thomas Brox

With the rapid progress of deep convolutional neural networks, in almost all robotic applications, the availability of 3D point clouds improves the accuracy of 3D semantic segmentation methods. Rendering of these irregular, unstructured,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Mobina Mahdavi , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Tooth point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in many orthodontic applications. Current research mainly focuses on fully supervised learning which demands expensive and tedious manual point-wise annotation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hui Chen , Yixuan Yuan

Object segmentation in three-dimensional (3-D) point clouds is a critical task for robots capable of 3-D perception. Despite the impressive performance of deep learning-based approaches on object segmentation in 2-D images, deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Brian H. Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Yan Wang , Bharath Hariharan , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Mark Campbell

This paper proposes a new active learning method for semantic segmentation. The core of our method lies in a new annotation query design. It samples informative local image regions (e.g., superpixels), and for each of such regions, asks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sehyun Hwang , Sohyun Lee , Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

Novel class discovery (NCD) for semantic segmentation is the task of learning a model that can segment unlabelled (novel) classes using only the supervision from labelled (base) classes. This problem has recently been pioneered for 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Luigi Riz , Cristiano Saltori , Elisa Ricci , Fabio Poiesi

We focus on the problem of class-agnostic instance segmentation of LiDAR point clouds. We propose an approach that combines graph-theoretic search with data-driven learning: it searches over a set of candidate segmentations and returns one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Peiyun Hu , David Held , Deva Ramanan

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

A 3D point cloud describes the real scene precisely and intuitively.To date how to segment diversified elements in such an informative 3D scene is rarely discussed. In this paper, we first introduce a simple and flexible framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Xinlong Wang , Shu Liu , Xiaoyong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Jiaya Jia

Object detection and semantic segmentation with the 3D lidar point cloud data require expensive annotation. We propose a data augmentation method that takes advantage of already annotated data multiple times. We propose an augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Petr Šebek , Šimon Pokorný , Patrik Vacek , Tomáš Svoboda

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud scenes is a crucial task for various applications. In real-world scenarios, training segmentation models often faces three concurrent forms of data insufficiency: scarcity of training scenes, scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Takahiko Furuya