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360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation

12 Sep 2023arXiv:2309.06197archive 2025-07-28

Laurenz Reichardt, Nikolas Ebert, Oliver Wasenmüller

Deep learning applications on LiDAR data suffer from a strong domain gap when applied to different sensors or tasks. In order for these methods to obtain similar accuracy on different data in comparison to values reported on public benchmarks, a large scale annotated dataset is necessary. However, in practical applications labeled data is costly and time consuming to obtain. Such factors have triggered various research in label-efficient methods, but a large gap remains to their fully-supervised counterparts. Thus, we propose ImageTo360, an effective and streamlined few-shot approach to label-efficient LiDAR segmentation. Our method utilizes an image teacher network to generate semantic predictions for LiDAR data within a single camera view. The teacher is used to pretrain the LiDAR segmentation student network, prior to optional fine-tuning on 360° data. Our method is implemented in a modular manner on the point level and as such is generalizable to different architectures. We improve over the current state-of-the-art results for label-efficient methods and even surpass some traditional fully-supervised segmentation networks.

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SegmentationSemi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation (All) mIOU (1% Test set) 57.7 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation (All) mIoU (1% Labels) 59.5 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation (All) mIoU (10% Labels) 62.4 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation (All) mIoU (20% Labels) 64.2 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 360° from a Single Camera: A Few-Shot Approach for LiDAR Segmentation (All) mIoU (50% Labels) 66.1 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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