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Contemporary point cloud segmentation approaches largely rely on richly annotated 3D training data. However, it is both time-consuming and challenging to obtain consistently accurate annotations for such 3D scene data. Moreover, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jiaxu Liu , Zhengdi Yu , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

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

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

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Rapid progress in 3D semantic segmentation is inseparable from the advances of deep network models, which highly rely on large-scale annotated data for training. To address the high cost and challenges of 3D point-level labeling, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Shu Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jiaya Jia

Due to the few annotated labels of 3D point clouds, how to learn discriminative features of point clouds to segment object instances is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective 3D instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Linghua Tang , Le Hui , Jin Xie

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data often comes with high annotation costs. Active learning automates the process of selecting which data to annotate, reducing the total amount of annotation needed to achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Johannes Meyer , Jasper Hoffmann , Felix Schulz , Dominik Merkle , Daniel Buescher , Alexander Reiterer , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Recently, 3D scenes parsing with deep learning approaches has been a heating topic. However, current methods with fully-supervised models require manually annotated point-wise supervision which is extremely user-unfriendly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Beiwen Tian , Liyi Luo , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

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

We study the problem of unsupervised 3D semantic segmentation on raw point clouds without needing human labels in training. Existing methods usually formulate this problem into learning per-point local features followed by a simple grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zihui Zhang , Weisheng Dai , Hongtao Wen , Bo Yang

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

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

While 3D instance segmentation (3DIS) has advanced significantly, most existing methods assume that all object classes are known in advance and uniformly distributed. However, this assumption is unrealistic in dynamic, real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Vishal Thengane , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Lu Yin , Xiatian Zhu , Salman Khan

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

We propose a novel scene flow method that captures 3D motions from point clouds without relying on ground-truth scene flow annotations. Due to the irregularity and sparsity of point clouds, it is expensive and time-consuming to acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Guohao Li , Bernard Ghanem

Manually annotating complex scene point cloud datasets is both costly and error-prone. To reduce the reliance on labeled data, a new model called SnapshotNet is proposed as a self-supervised feature learning approach, which directly works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xingye Li , Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

We tackle the novel class discovery in point cloud segmentation, which discovers novel classes based on the semantic knowledge of seen classes. Existing work proposes an online point-wise clustering method with a simplified equal class-size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ruijie Xu , Chuyu Zhang , Hui Ren , Xuming He

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

Annotating large-scale LiDAR point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation is costly and time-consuming, which motivates the use of semi-supervised learning (SemiSL). Standard LiDAR SemiSL methods typically adopt a two-step training paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

3D segmentation is a core problem in computer vision and, similarly to many other dense prediction tasks, it requires large amounts of annotated data for adequate training. However, densely labeling 3D point clouds to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool