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Scribble-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

16 Mar 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2203.08537archive 2025-07-28

Ozan Unal, Dengxin Dai, Luc van Gool

Densely annotating LiDAR point clouds remains too expensive and time-consuming to keep up with the ever growing volume of data. While current literature focuses on fully-supervised performance, developing efficient methods that take advantage of realistic weak supervision have yet to be explored. In this paper, we propose using scribbles to annotate LiDAR point clouds and release ScribbleKITTI, the first scribble-annotated dataset for LiDAR semantic segmentation. Furthermore, we present a pipeline to reduce the performance gap that arises when using such weak annotations. Our pipeline comprises of three stand-alone contributions that can be combined with any LiDAR semantic segmentation model to achieve up to 95.7% of the fully-supervised performance while using only 8% labeled points. Our scribble annotations and code are available at github.com/ouenal/scribblekitti.

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3D Semantic Segmentation ScribbleKITTI SSLSS with Cylinder3D mIoU 61.3 #2 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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