Advancing 3D point cloud understanding through deep transfer learning: A comprehensive survey

SS Sohail, Y Himeur, H Kheddar, A Amira, F Fadli… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
The 3D point cloud (3DPC) has significantly evolved and benefited from the advance of
deep learning (DL). However, the latter faces various issues, including the lack of data or …

Review of automatic processing of topography and surface feature identification LiDAR data using machine learning techniques

Z Gharineiat, F Tarsha Kurdi, G Campbell - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine Learning (ML) applications on Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data have
provided promising results and thus this topic has been widely addressed in the literature …

Lasermix for semi-supervised lidar semantic segmentation

L Kong, J Ren, L Pan, Z Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Densely annotating LiDAR point clouds is costly, which often restrains the scalability of fully-
supervised learning methods. In this work, we study the underexplored semi-supervised …

Multi-modal data-efficient 3d scene understanding for autonomous driving

L Kong, X Xu, J Ren, W Zhang, L Pan… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous
driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully …

Also: Automotive lidar self-supervision by occupancy estimation

A Boulch, C Sautier, B Michele… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a new self-supervised method for pre-training the backbone of deep perception
models operating on point clouds. The core idea is to train the model on a pretext task which …

Three pillars improving vision foundation model distillation for lidar

G Puy, S Gidaris, A Boulch, O Siméoni… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Self-supervised image backbones can be used to address complex 2D tasks (eg semantic
segmentation object discovery) very efficiently and with little or no downstream supervision …

Object discovery and representation networks

OJ Hénaff, S Koppula, E Shelhamer, D Zoran… - European conference on …, 2022 - Springer
The promise of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to leverage large amounts of unlabeled
data to solve complex tasks. While there has been excellent progress with simple, image …

Segment any point cloud sequences by distilling vision foundation models

Y Liu, L Kong, J Cen, R Chen… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent advancements in vision foundation models (VFMs) have opened up new
possibilities for versatile and efficient visual perception. In this work, we introduce Seal, a …

Receding moving object segmentation in 3d lidar data using sparse 4d convolutions

B Mersch, X Chen, I Vizzo, L Nunes… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key challenge for autonomous vehicles is to navigate in unseen dynamic environments.
Separating moving objects from static ones is essential for navigation, pose estimation, and …

Temporal consistent 3D lidar representation learning for semantic perception in autonomous driving

L Nunes, L Wiesmann, R Marcuzzi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Semantic perception is a core building block in autonomous driving, since it provides
information about the drivable space and location of other traffic participants. For learning …