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Accurate perception is critical for vehicle safety, with LiDAR as a key enabler in autonomous driving. To ensure robust performance across environments, sensor types, and weather conditions without costly re-annotation, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Weitong Kong , Zichao Zeng , Di Wen , Jiale Wei , Kunyu Peng , June Moh Goo , Jan Boehm , Rainer Stiefelhagen

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Segmenting or detecting objects in sparse Lidar point clouds are two important tasks in autonomous driving to allow a vehicle to act safely in its 3D environment. The best performing methods in 3D semantic segmentation or object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Corentin Sautier , Gilles Puy , Spyros Gidaris , Alexandre Boulch , Andrei Bursuc , Renaud Marlet

LiDAR-based 3D point cloud recognition has been proven beneficial in various applications. However, the sparsity and varying density pose a significant challenge in capturing intricate details of objects, particularly for medium-range and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zaipeng Duan , Xuzhong Hu , Pei An , Jie Ma

In recent studies, numerous previous works emphasize the importance of semantic segmentation of LiDAR data as a critical component to the development of driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. However, many state-of-the-art…

LiDAR has become a standard sensor for autonomous driving applications as they provide highly precise 3D point clouds. LiDAR is also robust for low-light scenarios at night-time or due to shadows where the performance of cameras is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Khaled El Madawy , Hazem Rashed , Ahmad El Sallab , Omar Nasr , Hanan Kamel , Senthil Yogamani

3D semantic segmentation plays a critical role in urban modelling, enabling detailed understanding and mapping of city environments. In this paper, we introduce Turin3D: a new aerial LiDAR dataset for point cloud semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Luca Barco , Giacomo Blanco , Gaetano Chiriaco , Alessia Intini , Luigi La Riccia , Vittorio Scolamiero , Piero Boccardo , Paolo Garza , Fabrizio Dominici

Semantic 3D mapping is one of the most important fields in robotics, and has been used in many applications, such as robot navigation, surveillance, and virtual reality. In general, semantic 3D mapping is mainly composed of 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Jongmin Jeong , Tae Sung Yoon , Jin Bae Park

Point clouds provide intrinsic geometric information and surface context for scene understanding. Existing methods for point cloud segmentation require a large amount of fully labeled data. Using advanced depth sensors, collection of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Tzu-Yi Hung , Lihua Xie

Current methods for 3D semantic segmentation propose training models with limited annotations to address the difficulty of annotating large, irregular, and unordered 3D point cloud data. They usually focus on the 3D domain only, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lechun You , Zhonghua Wu , Weide Liu , Xulei Yang , Jun Cheng , Wei Zhou , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Guosheng Lin

4D panoptic segmentation is a challenging but practically useful task that requires every point in a LiDAR point-cloud sequence to be assigned a semantic class label, and individual objects to be segmented and tracked over time. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ali Athar , Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is essential for enhanced high-level perception in autonomous platforms. Furthermore, given the increasing deployment of LiDAR sensors onboard of cars and drones, a special emphasis is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yara Ali Alnaggar , Mohamed Afifi , Karim Amer , Mohamed Elhelw

Geometric high-fidelity mesh reconstruction from LiDAR-inertial scans remains challenging in large, complex indoor environments -- such as cultural buildings -- where point cloud sparsity, geometric drift, and fixed fusion parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Muhammad Affan , Ville Lehtola , George Vosselman

Camera and 3D LiDAR sensors have become indispensable devices in modern autonomous driving vehicles, where the camera provides the fine-grained texture, color information in 2D space and LiDAR captures more precise and farther-away distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lin Zhao , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Hongsheng Li , Wenbing Tao

This paper presents a novel 3D semantic segmentation method for large-scale point cloud data that does not require annotated 3D training data or paired RGB images. The proposed approach projects 3D point clouds onto 2D images using virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Toshihiko Nishimura , Hirofumi Abe , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

In this study, we present a novel LiDAR-based semantic segmentation framework tailored for autonomous forklifts operating in complex outdoor environments. Central to our approach is the integration of a dual LiDAR system, which combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Benjamin Serfling , Hannes Reichert , Lorenzo Bayerlein , Konrad Doll , Kati Radkhah-Lens

We address the problem of unsupervised semantic segmentation of outdoor LiDAR point clouds in diverse traffic scenarios. The key idea is to leverage the spatiotemporal nature of a dynamic point cloud sequence and introduce drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiao Li , Pan He , Aotian Wu , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

Mapping the environment has been an important task for robot navigation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). LIDAR provides a fast and accurate 3D point cloud map of the environment which helps in map building. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Accurate moving object segmentation is an essential task for autonomous driving. It can provide effective information for many downstream tasks, such as collision avoidance, path planning, and static map construction. How to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Xianjing Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Xieyuanli Chen

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