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Transformers have been seldom employed in point cloud roof plane instance segmentation, which is the focus of this study, and existing superpoint Transformers suffer from limited performance due to the use of low-quality superpoints. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Cheng Zeng , Xiatian Qi , Chi Chen , Kai Sun , Wangle Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Yan Meng , Bisheng Yang

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Semantic segmentation is an important component in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we adopt recent advances in both image and point cloud segmentation to achieve a better accuracy in the task of segmenting LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Deyvid Kochanov , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Olaf Booij

Adverse weather conditions significantly degrade the performance of LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation networks by introducing large distribution shifts. Existing augmentation-based methods attempt to enhance robustness by simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wangkai Li , Zhaoyang Li , Yuwen Pan , Rui Sun , Yujia Chen , Tianzhu Zhang

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Accurate land cover mapping in riverine environments is essential for effective river management, ecological understanding, and geomorphic change monitoring. This study explores the use of Point Transformer v2 (PTv2), an advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sopitta Thurachen , Josef Taher , Matti Lehtomäki , Leena Matikainen , Linnea Blåfield , Mikel Calle Navarro , Antero Kukko , Tomi Westerlund , Harri Kaartinen

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

Recently, the advancement of deep learning in discriminative feature learning from 3D LiDAR data has led to rapid development in the field of autonomous driving. However, automated processing uneven, unstructured, noisy, and massive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ying Li , Lingfei Ma , Zilong Zhong , Fei Liu , Dongpu Cao , Jonathan Li , Michael A. Chapman

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of deep learning for coniferous/deciduous classification of individual trees from airborne LiDAR data. To enable efficient processing by a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid Hamraz , Nathan B. Jacobs , Marco A. Contreras , Chase H. Clark

This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

This study investigates the application of PointNet and PointNet++ in the classification of LiDAR-generated point cloud data, a critical component for achieving fully autonomous vehicles. Utilizing a modified dataset from the Lyft 3D Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Rajat K. Doshi

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) plays an increasingly significant role in urban planning, topographic mapping, environmental monitoring, power line detection and other fields thanks to its capability to quickly acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Congcong Wen , Xiang Li , Xiaojing Yao , Ling Peng , Tianhe Chi

Detecting vehicles in aerial imagery is a critical task with applications in traffic monitoring, urban planning, and defense intelligence. Deep learning methods have provided state-of-the-art (SOTA) results for this application. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiao Fang , Minhyek Jeon , Zheyang Qin , Stanislav Panev , Celso de Melo , Shuowen Hu , Shayok Chakraborty , Fernando De la Torre

Urban environments are characterized by complex structures and diverse features, making accurate segmentation of point cloud data a challenging task. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the application of RandLA-Net, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Alperen Enes Bayar , Ufuk Uyan , Elif Toprak , Cao Yuheng , Tang Juncheng , Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu

DEtection TRansformer (DETR) started a trend that uses a group of learnable queries for unified visual perception. This work begins by applying this appealing paradigm to LiDAR-based point cloud segmentation and obtains a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zeqi Xiao , Wenwei Zhang , Tai Wang , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles rely on multi-modal sensor setups to perceive and understand their surroundings. Aside from cameras, LiDAR sensors represent a central component of state-of-the-art perception systems. In addition to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Florian Piewak , Peter Pinggera , Manuel Schäfer , David Peter , Beate Schwarz , Nick Schneider , David Pfeiffer , Markus Enzweiler , Marius Zöllner

3D perception in LiDAR point clouds is crucial for a self-driving vehicle to properly act in 3D environment. However, manually labeling point clouds is hard and costly. There has been a growing interest in self-supervised pre-training of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mu Cai , Chenxu Luo , Yong Jae Lee , Xiaodong Yang

The autonomous car must recognize the driving environment quickly for safe driving. As the Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) sensor is widely used in the autonomous car, fast semantic segmentation of LiDAR point cloud, which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jaehyun Park , Chansoo Kim , Kichun Jo