3D Semantic Segmentation

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3D semantic segmentation labels the parts of a three-dimensional scene, helping robots, vehicles, and mapping systems understand both what objects are and where they are. Common approaches process point clouds with point or voxel transformers, fuse LiDAR with camera features, or transfer 2D foundation-model predictions into 3D; newer work also segments Gaussian-splatting and mesh representations. Indoor benchmarks such as ScanNet and S3DIS and outdoor benchmarks such as SemanticKITTI and nuScenes measure progress, alongside few-shot, unsupervised, and open-vocabulary settings that reduce dependence on dense labels. A central challenge is making accurate boundaries and fine-grained predictions transfer across sensors, viewpoints, and domains without excessive annotation or computation.

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Mar 20, 2026

Uncertainty-aware Prototype Learning with Variational Inference for Few-shot Point Cloud Segmentation

Few-shot 3D semantic segmentation aims to generate accurate semantic masks for query point clouds with only a few annotated support examples. Existing prototype-based methods typically construct compact and deterministic prototypes from the support set to guide query segmentation. However, such rigid representations are unable to capture the intrinsic uncertainty introduced by scarce supervision, which often results in degraded robustness and limited generalization. In this work, we propose UPL (Uncertainty-aware Prototype Learning), a probabilistic approach designed to incorporate uncertainty modeling into prototype learning for few-shot 3D segmentation. Our framework introduces two key components. First, UPL introduces a dual-stream prototype refinement module that enriches prototype representations by jointly leveraging limited information from both support and query samples. Second, we formulate prototype learning as a variational inference problem, regarding class prototypes as latent variables. This probabilistic formulation enables explicit uncertainty modeling, providing robust and interpretable mask predictions. Extensive experiments on the widely used ScanNet and S3DIS benchmarks show that our UPL achieves consistent state-of-the-art performance under different settings while providing reliable uncertainty estimation. The code is available at https://fdueblab-upl.github.io/.

Yifei Zhao, Fanyu Zhao, Yinsheng Li

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation3D Point Cloud Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationPrototype LearningSegmentation Uncertainty Estimation
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Mar 17, 2026

TCATSeg: A Tooth Center-Wise Attention Network for 3D Dental Model Semantic Segmentation

Accurate semantic segmentation of 3D dental models is essential for digital dentistry applications such as orthodontics and dental implants. However, due to complex tooth arrangements and similarities in shape among adjacent teeth, existing methods struggle with accurate segmentation, because they often focus on local geometry while neglecting global contextual information. To address this, we propose TCATSeg, a novel framework that combines local geometric features with global semantic context. We introduce a set of sparse yet physically meaningful superpoints to capture global semantic relationships and enhance segmentation accuracy. Additionally, we present a new dataset of 400 dental models, including pre-orthodontic samples, to evaluate the generalization of our method. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TCATSeg outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.

Qiang He, Wentian Qu, Jiajia Dai +9

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University +2

3D Semantic Segmentation3D Point Cloud Segmentation3D Medical Image SegmentationImage Segmentation
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Mar 6, 2026

SCOPE: Scene-Contextualized Incremental Few-Shot 3D Segmentation

Incremental Few-Shot (IFS) segmentation aims to learn new categories over time from only a few annotations. Although widely studied in 2D, it remains underexplored for 3D point clouds. Existing methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting or fail to learn discriminative prototypes under sparse supervision, and often overlook a key cue: novel categories frequently appear as unlabelled background in base-training scenes. We introduce SCOPE (Scene-COntextualised Prototype Enrichment), a plug-and-play background-guided prototype enrichment framework that integrates with any prototype-based 3D segmentation method. After base training, a class-agnostic segmentation model extracts high-confidence pseudo-instances from background regions to build a prototype pool. When novel classes arrive with few labelled samples, relevant background prototypes are retrieved and fused with few-shot prototypes to form enriched representations without retraining the backbone or adding parameters. Experiments on ScanNet and S3DIS show that SCOPE achieves SOTA performance, improving novel-class IoU by up to 6.98% and 3.61%, and mean IoU by 2.25% and 1.70%, respectively, while maintaining low forgetting. Code is available https://github.com/Surrey-UP-Lab/SCOPE.

Vishal Thengane, Zhaochong An, Tianjin Huang +5

University of Surrey, UK · University of Wollongong, Australia · University of Copenhagen, Denmark +2

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationClass-Incremental LearningPrototype Learning
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Mar 6, 2026

P-SLCR: Unsupervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation via Prototypes Structure Learning and Consistent Reasoning

Current semantic segmentation approaches for point cloud scenes heavily rely on manual labeling, while research on unsupervised semantic segmentation methods specifically for raw point clouds is still in its early stages. Unsupervised point cloud learning poses significant challenges due to the absence of annotation information and the lack of pre-training. The development of effective strategies is crucial in this context. In this paper, we propose a novel prototype library-driven unsupervised point cloud semantic segmentation strategy that utilizes Structure Learning and Consistent Reasoning (P-SLCR). First, we propose a Consistent Structure Learning to establish structural feature learning between consistent points and the library of consistent prototypes by selecting high-quality features. Second, we propose a Semantic Relation Consistent Reasoning that constructs a prototype inter-relation matrix between consistent and ambiguous prototype libraries separately. This process ensures the preservation of semantic consistency by imposing constraints on consistent and ambiguous prototype libraries through the prototype inter-relation matrix. Finally, our method was extensively evaluated on the S3DIS, SemanticKITTI, and Scannet datasets, achieving the best performance compared to unsupervised methods. Specifically, the mIoU of 47.1% is achieved for Area-5 of the S3DIS dataset, surpassing the classical fully supervised method PointNet by 2.5%.

Lixin Zhan, Jie Jiang, Tianjian Zhou +3

College of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology · Laboratory for Big Data and Decision, National University of Defense Technology

3D Point Cloud Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationPoint Cloud LearningPrototype Learning
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Mar 1, 2026

Adaptive Augmentation-Aware Latent Learning for Robust LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

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 weather interference during training. However, they struggle to fully exploit the potential of augmentations due to the trade-off between minor and aggressive augmentations. To address this, we propose A3Point, an adaptive augmentation-aware latent learning framework that effectively utilizes a diverse range of augmentations while mitigating the semantic shift, which refers to the change in the semantic meaning caused by augmentations. A3Point consists of two key components: semantic confusion prior (SCP) latent learning, which captures the model's inherent semantic confusion information, and semantic shift region (SSR) localization, which decouples semantic confusion and semantic shift, enabling adaptive optimization strategies for different disturbance levels. Extensive experiments on multiple standard generalized LiDAR segmentation benchmarks under adverse weather demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, setting new state-of-the-art results.

Wangkai Li, Zhaoyang Li, Yuwen Pan +3

University of Science and Technology of China · National Key Laboratory of Deep Space Exploration, Deep Space Exploration Laboratory

3D Point Cloud Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationData Augmentation
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Feb 28, 2026

MME: Mixture of Mesh Experts with Random Walk Transformer Gating

In recent years, various methods have been proposed for mesh analysis, each offering distinct advantages and often excelling on different object classes. We present a novel Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework designed to harness the complementary strengths of these diverse approaches. We propose a new gate architecture that encourages each expert to specialise in the classes it excels in. Our design is guided by two key ideas: (1) random walks over the mesh surface effectively capture the regions that individual experts attend to, and (2) an attention mechanism that enables the gate to focus on the areas most informative for each expert's decision-making. To further enhance performance, we introduce a dynamic loss balancing scheme that adjusts a trade-off between diversity and similarity losses throughout the training, where diversity prompts expert specialization, and similarity enables knowledge sharing among the experts. Our framework achieves state-of-the-art results in mesh classification, retrieval, and semantic segmentation tasks. Our code is available at: https://github.com/amirbelder/MME-Mixture-of-Mesh-Experts.

Amir Belder, Ayellet Tal

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Mixture-of-Experts ModelsExpert RoutingClassification3D Semantic Segmentation
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Feb 27, 2026

Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation in Synchrotron Computed Tomography with Self-Correcting Pseudo Labels

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging technique that provides detailed examinations into the internal structure of an object with synchrotron CT (SR-CT) enabling improved data quality by using higher energy, monochromatic X-rays. While SR-CT allows for improved resolution, time-resolved experimentation, and reduced imaging artifacts, it also produces significantly larger datasets than conventional CT. Accurate and efficient evaluation of these datasets is a critical component of these workflows; yet is often done manually representing a major bottleneck in the analysis phase. While deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool capable of providing a wide range of purely data-driven solutions, it requires a substantial amount of labeled data for training and manual annotation of SR-CT datasets is impractical in practice. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework that enables automatic segmentation of large, high-resolution SR-CT datasets by eliminating the need to hand label images for deep learning training. First, we generate pseudo labels by clustering on the voxel values identifying regions in the volume with similar attenuation coefficients producing an initial semantic map. Afterwards, we train a segmentation model on the pseudo labels before utilizing the Unbiased Teacher approach to self-correct them ensuring accurate final segmentations. We find our approach improves pixel-wise accuracy and mIoU by 13.31% and 15.94%, respectively, over the baseline pseudo labels when using a magnesium crystal SR-CT sample. Additionally, we extensively evaluate the different components of our workflow including segmentation model, loss function, pseudo labeling strategy, and input type. Finally, we evaluate our approach on to two additional samples highlighting our frameworks ability to produce segmentations that are considerably better than the original pseudo labels.

Austin Yunker, Peter Kenesei, Hemant Sharma +3

Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA · X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA

Unsupervised Image Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationPseudo-LabelingComputed Tomography
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Feb 21, 2026

Enhancing 3D LiDAR Segmentation by Shaping Dense and Accurate 2D Semantic Predictions

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as a 2D problem. However, the intrinsic sparsity of the projected LiDAR and label maps can result in sparse and inaccurate intermediate 2D semantic predictions, which in return limits the final 3D accuracy. To address this issue, we enhance this task by shaping dense and accurate 2D predictions. Specifically, we develop a multi-modal segmentation model, MM2D3D. By leveraging camera images as auxiliary data, we introduce cross-modal guided filtering to overcome label map sparsity by constraining intermediate 2D semantic predictions with dense semantic relations derived from the camera images; and we introduce dynamic cross pseudo supervision to overcome LiDAR map sparsity by encouraging the 2D predictions to emulate the dense distribution of the semantic predictions from the camera images. Experiments show that our techniques enable our model to achieve intermediate 2D semantic predictions with dense distribution and higher accuracy, which effectively enhances the final 3D accuracy. Comparisons with previous methods demonstrate our superior performance in both 2D and 3D spaces.

Xiaoyu Dong, Tiankui Xian, Wanshui Gan +1

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, Japan

Multimodal Semantic Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationSemantic SegmentationCamera-LiDAR Fusion
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Feb 16, 2026

Cross-view Domain Generalization via Geometric Consistency for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

Domain-generalized LiDAR semantic segmentation (LSS) seeks to train models on source-domain point clouds that generalize reliably to multiple unseen target domains, which is essential for real-world LiDAR applications. However, existing approaches assume similar acquisition views (e.g., vehicle-mounted) and struggle in cross-view scenarios, where observations differ substantially due to viewpoint-dependent structural incompleteness and non-uniform point density. Accordingly, we formulate cross-view domain generalization for LiDAR semantic segmentation and propose a novel framework, termed CVGC (Cross-View Geometric Consistency). Specifically, we introduce a cross-view geometric augmentation module that models viewpoint-induced variations in visibility and sampling density, generating multiple cross-view observations of the same scene. Subsequently, a geometric consistency module enforces consistent semantic and occupancy predictions across geometrically augmented point clouds of the same scene. Extensive experiments on six public LiDAR datasets establish the first systematic evaluation of cross-view domain generalization for LiDAR semantic segmentation, demonstrating that CVGC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods when generalizing from a single source domain to multiple target domains with heterogeneous acquisition viewpoints. The source code will be publicly available at https://github.com/KintomZi/CVGC-DG

Jindong Zhao, Yuan Gao, Yang Xia +4

School of Aeronautic Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan, China, 410004. · Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 100094. · School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China +1

Domain Generalization3D Semantic SegmentationConsistency Regularization
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Jan 8, 2026

DivAS: Interactive 3D Segmentation by Depth-Weighted Voxel Aggregation

Interactive 3D segmentation of a reconstructed scene should not require a representation-specific optimization loop. We observe that the recipe for lifting 2D foundation-model masks into 3D, namely prompting a few views, refining the resulting masks with rendered depth, and fusing the multi-view evidence into a voxel grid, is shared across scene representations. What remains representation-specific is only the depth signal returned by the renderer and the occupancy prior that gates fusion. We present DivAS (Depth-interactive Voxel Aggregation Segmentation), an optimization-free, training-free framework that realizes this recipe as a single interaction-and-fusion skeleton with lightweight, representation-specific adapters, instantiated on both Gaussian Splatting (GS) and NeRF backbones. On standard forward-facing and unbounded benchmarks, the GS instantiation attains segmentation quality competitive with state-of-the-art optimization-based methods, and the best on LLFF, while being the only one to reach this quality within the consumer-hardware memory envelope at standard resolution. Both instantiations run end-to-end around 22x faster than feature-field baselines, with a per-update fusion-kernel cost below 7070 ms. Because segmentation evidence is gathered from a small, bounded set of anchor views, user effort and computation remain independent of the training-set size. The same skeleton applied to a NeRF backbone matches or exceeds the performance of optimization-based NeRF baselines, confirming that the recipe transfers across fundamentally different 3D representations.

Ayush Pande, Mayank Vatsa

Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Image Segmentation3D Semantic Segmentation
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Jan 7, 2026

G2P: Gaussian-to-Point Attribute Alignment for Boundary-Aware 3D Segmentation

Point cloud segmentation is critical for 3D scene understanding. However, sparse and irregular point distributions provide limited appearance evidence, making geometry-only features insufficient to distinguish objects with similar shapes but distinct appearances e.g., color, texture, and material. We propose Gaussian-to-Point (G2P), which transfers Gaussian attributes from 3D Gaussian Splatting to point clouds for more discriminative and appearance-consistent segmentation. Our G2P addresses the misalignment between optimized Gaussians and original point geometry by establishing point-wise correspondences. By distilling opacity-derived visibility cues, we mitigate the geometric ambiguity that limits existing models. Additionally, Gaussian scale attributes enable precise boundary localization in complex 3D scenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves competitive performance on standard benchmarks and shows notable improvements on geometrically challenging classes, without pretrained 2D features or language supervision in our segmentation pipeline.

Hojun Song, Chae-yeong Song, Jeong-hun Hong +5

Kyungpook National University · Korea Electronics Technology Institute · Adobe Research +1

3D Point Cloud Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationBoundary-Aware Segmentation
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Nov 9, 2025

Label-Efficient 3D Forest Mapping: Self-Supervised and Transfer Learning for Instance Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, and Species Classification

Detailed structural and species information on individual tree level is increasingly important to support precision forestry, biodiversity conservation, and provide reference data for biomass and carbon mapping. Point clouds from airborne and ground-based laser scanning are currently the most suitable data source to rapidly derive such information at scale. Recent advancements in deep learning improved segmenting and classifying individual trees and identifying semantic tree components. However, deep learning models typically require large amounts of annotated training data which limits further improvement. Producing dense, high-quality annotations for 3D point clouds, especially in complex forests, is labor-intensive and challenging to scale. We explore strategies to reduce dependence on large annotated datasets using self-supervised and transfer learning. Our objective is to improve performance across three tasks: instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, and tree classification using realistic and operational training sets. We observe improvements across all tasks, compared to training from scratch, evaluated with their respective metrics. For instance segmentation, self-supervised learning combined with domain adaptation improves AP50 by 16.98%. For semantic segmentation, self-supervised learning alone improves mIoU by 1.79%. For tree classification, hierarchical transfer learning improves mean Jaccard by 6.07%. To simplify use and encourage uptake, we integrated the tasks into a unified framework, streamlining the process from raw point clouds to tree delineation, structural analysis, and species classification. Pretrained models reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by ~21%. This open-source contribution aims to accelerate operational extraction of individual tree information from laser scanning point clouds to support forestry, biodiversity, and carbon mapping.

Aldino Rizaldy, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht, Ahmed Jamal Afifi +3

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), 09599 Freiberg, Germany. · Institute of Geomatics, BOKU University, 1190 Vienna, Austria · Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany +1

Self-Supervised LearningTree Species Classification3D Semantic SegmentationRemote SensingTransfer Learning3D Instance Segmentation
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Oct 29, 2025

BikeScenes: LiDAR Semantic Segmentation for Bicycles

The vulnerability of cyclists, exacerbated by the rising popularity of faster e-bikes, motivates adapting automotive perception technologies for bicycle safety. We use our multi-sensor SenseBike research platform to study 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation for bicycles. We introduce the novel BikeScenes-lidarseg Dataset, comprising 3021 consecutive LiDAR scans around the university campus of the TU Delft, semantically annotated for 29 dynamic and static classes. As an initial baseline study, we evaluate how a SemanticKITTI pre-trained FRNet model transfers to this bicycle-mounted solid-state LiDAR setting. Fine-tuning on BikeScenes increases mean Intersection-over-Union (mIoU) from 13.8% to 63.6% on our held-out subsequences. These results show the practical value of in-domain data for this platform, while also highlighting the need for larger bicycle datasets. We contribute BikeScenes as a resource for advancing research in cyclist-centric perception.

Denniz Goren, Holger Caesar

Autonomous Driving Perception3D Semantic Segmentation
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Sep 16, 2025

Few to Big: Prototype Expansion Network via Diffusion Learner for Point Cloud Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

Few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to segment novel categories using a minimal number of annotated support samples. However, prototypes derived from the limited non-structural point cloud support set are often misaligned and have a small capacity, hindering effective gen eralization to novel categories. This stems from two core issues: i) the prototype possess limited representational capacity fails to cover the full intra-class diversity of a novel category, and ii) the prototypes suffer from misalignment with the query space due to the inter-set inconsistency between support and query sets. To address these issues, our work focuses on leveraging the few support samples to construct a well-aligned big-capacity prototype. Motivated by the powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models, we re-purpose its pre-trained conditional encoder to provide rich feature components for prototype ex pansion. Subsequently, a push-pull force aligns this expanded prototype towards the query feature space. Under this setup, we introduce the Prototype Expansion Network (PENet), a framework that constructs aligned big-capacity prototypes from two complementary feature sources. Specifically, PENet employs a dual-stream learner architecture: it retains a conventional fully supervised Intrinsic Learner (IL) to distill representative features, while introducing a novel Diffusion Learner (DL) to provide rich generalizable features. The resulting dual prototypes are then processed by a Prototype Assimilation Module (PAM), which adopts a push-pull attention block to align the prototypes with the query space. Furthermore, a Prototype Calibration Mechanism (PCM) regularizes the final big-capacity prototype to prevent semantic drift. Extensive experiments on the S3DIS and ScanNet datasets demonstrate that PENet outperforms state-of-the-art methods across various few-shot settings.

Qianguang Zhao, Dongli Wang, Yan Zhou +2

School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China · School of Automation and Electronics Information, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China · School of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200232, China

3D Point Cloud SegmentationPrototype Learning3D Semantic SegmentationFew-Shot Semantic Segmentation
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Sep 5, 2025

CoRe-GS: Coarse-to-Refined Gaussian Splatting with Semantic Object Focus

Fast and efficient photorealistic 3D reconstruction with (semantic) Gaussian Splatting (GS) is crucial for time-critical robotic perception and navigation, where robots may need to rapidly reconstruct and inspect specific points of interest (POIs), such as in search-and-rescue scenarios. Existing semantic GS methods prioritize reconstruction and segmentation quality while uniformly optimizing entire scenes, often overlooking runtime constraints crucial for real-world deployment. Moreover, object extraction often suffers from floaters and incomplete reconstructions, while post-optimization approaches often produce incomplete POIs. We propose CoRe-GS, a coarse-to-refined, task-driven approach that first creates a segmentation-ready GS representation through lightweight late-stage semantic refinement, then selectively refines only the views and Gaussians associated with the POI. A color-based filtering strategy further suppresses segmentation-induced floaters. On LERF-Mask, our representation achieves competitive mIoU with 6-8x fewer optimization steps. On NeRDS 360 and SCRREAM, CoRe-GS reduces time-to-POI by 91-95% over full-scene semantic GS while improving reconstruction quality and reducing floaters. Across all benchmarks, it is 44-76% faster than post-optimization object extraction, demonstrating that task-aware refinement can deliver efficient, high-quality POI reconstruction for time-critical robotic perception and operation.

Hannah Schieber, Dominik Frischmann, Victor Schaack +4

Technical University of Munich · Human-Centered Computing and Extended Reality Lab · TUM University Hospital, Clinic for Orthopedics and Sports Orthopedics +3

3D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction3D Semantic SegmentationRobotic Perception
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Aug 1, 2025

PointGauss: Point Cloud-Guided Multi-Object Segmentation for Gaussian Splatting

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has established new standards for high-fidelity 3D scene modeling, interpreting massive, unstructured Gaussian primitives into meaningful geospatial entities remains a critical challenge for remote sensing and urban applications. Existing 2D-to-3D distillation methods suffer from projection ambiguities, geometric inconsistencies, and computational bottlenecks when applied to complex, large-scale topographies. Furthermore, current benchmarks lack natively aligned 2D-3D ground truth tailored for splatting-based representations. To address these limitations, we propose PointGauss, a unified 3D-native framework for robust semantic parsing and instance segmentation. By treating Gaussian primitives as unstructured point sets, PointGauss leverages Point Transformer V3 (PTv3) to extract scale-invariant geometric features directly from Gaussian attributes, effectively resolving projection ambiguities. To ensure scalability in building-scale scenes, we introduce an adaptive region-of-interest cropping strategy and an instance-aware distance-constrained rasterization pipeline for pixel-level, view-consistent projection. Additionally, we present SplatSeg-360, the first rigorous cross-scale benchmark tailored for 3DGS, comprising 32 complex scenes with full 360∘^\circ coverage and over 6,300 natively aligned 2D-3D masks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PointGauss operates in real-time and achieves state-of-the-art performance. Notably, it attains approximately 90% 3D-mIoU in large-scale building scenarios and roughly 80% 2D-mIoU in view-consistent 2D instance segmentation, outperforming baseline methods by 16%. (Code)

Wentao Sun, Yiping Chen, John S. Zelek +1

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada · Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China

3D Gaussian Splatting3DGS Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing3D Instance Segmentation
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Jun 21, 2021

EPMF: Efficient Perception-aware Multi-sensor Fusion for 3D Semantic Segmentation

We study multi-sensor fusion for 3D semantic segmentation that is important to scene understanding for many applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. Existing fusion-based methods, however, may not achieve promising performance due to the vast difference between the two modalities. In this work, we investigate a collaborative fusion scheme called perception-aware multi-sensor fusion (PMF) to effectively exploit perceptual information from two modalities, namely, appearance information from RGB images and spatio-depth information from point clouds. To this end, we project point clouds to the camera coordinate using perspective projection, and process both inputs from LiDAR and cameras in 2D space while preventing the information loss of RGB images. Then, we propose a two-stream network to extract features from the two modalities, separately. The extracted features are fused by effective residual-based fusion modules. Moreover, we introduce additional perception-aware losses to measure the perceptual difference between the two modalities. Last, we propose an improved version of PMF, i.e., EPMF, which is more efficient and effective by optimizing data pre-processing and network architecture under perspective projection. Specifically, we propose cross-modal alignment and cropping to obtain tight inputs and reduce unnecessary computational costs. We then explore more efficient contextual modules under perspective projection and fuse the LiDAR features into the camera stream to boost the performance of the two-stream network. Extensive experiments on benchmark data sets show the superiority of our method. For example, on nuScenes test set, our EPMF outperforms the state-of-the-art method, i.e., RangeFormer, by 0.9% in mIoU. Our source code is available at https://github.com/ICEORY/PMF.

Mingkui Tan, Zhuangwei Zhuang, Sitao Chen +4

School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology · Pazhou Laboratory, Guangzhou, China · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology +2

Camera-LiDAR FusionAutonomous Driving Perception3D Semantic SegmentationMultimodal Sensor Fusion
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