Adaptive Annotation Distribution for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06259v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:57:09 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Annotation Distribution for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Zhiyi Pan and Nan Zhang and Wei Gao and Shan Liu and Ge Li
• Abstract summary: We propose an adaptive annotation distribution method for weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation. Specifically, we introduce the probability density function into the gradient sampling approximation analysis. We design the multiplicative dynamic entropy as the gradient calibration function to mitigate the gradient bias caused by non-uniformly distributed sparse annotations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted a lot of attention due to its ability to alleviate the heavy reliance on fine-grained annotations of point clouds. However, in practice, sparse annotation usually exhibits a distinct non-uniform distribution in point cloud, which poses challenges for weak supervision. To address these issues, we propose an adaptive annotation distribution method for weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation. Specifically, we introduce the probability density function into the gradient sampling approximation analysis and investigate the impact of sparse annotations distributions. Based on our analysis, we propose a label-aware point cloud downsampling strategy to increase the proportion of annotations involved in the training stage. Furthermore, we design the multiplicative dynamic entropy as the gradient calibration function to mitigate the gradient bias caused by non-uniformly distributed sparse annotations and explicitly reduce the epistemic uncertainty. Without any prior restrictions and additional information, our proposed method achieves comprehensive performance improvements at multiple label rates with different annotation distributions on S3DIS, ScanNetV2 and SemanticKITTI.

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