LiDAR Remote Sensing Meets Weak Supervision: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18384v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:51:38 GMT
• Title: LiDAR Remote Sensing Meets Weak Supervision: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives
• Abstract summary: This review adopts a unified weakly supervised learning perspective to examine research on LiDAR interpretation and inversion.<n>We summarize the latest advancements, provide a comprehensive review of the development and application of weakly supervised techniques in LiDAR remote sensing, and discuss potential future research directions in this field.
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• Abstract: LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) enables rapid and accurate acquisition of three-dimensional spatial data, widely applied in remote sensing areas such as surface mapping, environmental monitoring, urban modeling, and forestry inventory. LiDAR remote sensing primarily includes data interpretation and LiDAR-based inversion. However, LiDAR interpretation typically relies on dense and precise annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Similarly, LiDAR inversion depends on scarce supervisory signals and expensive field surveys for annotations. To address this challenge, weakly supervised learning has gained significant attention in recent years, with many methods emerging to tackle LiDAR remote sensing tasks using incomplete, inaccurate, and inexact annotations, as well as annotations from other domains. Existing review articles treat LiDAR interpretation and inversion as separate tasks. This review, for the first time, adopts a unified weakly supervised learning perspective to systematically examine research on both LiDAR interpretation and inversion. We summarize the latest advancements, provide a comprehensive review of the development and application of weakly supervised techniques in LiDAR remote sensing, and discuss potential future research directions in this field.

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