Point-Plane Projections for Accurate LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Small Data Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10841v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:03:12 GMT
• Title: Point-Plane Projections for Accurate LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Small Data Scenarios
• Authors: Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Wanmeng Li, Emanuele Menegatti, Alberto Pretto,
• Abstract summary: LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics.<n>Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or incorporating data from other sensors, such as cameras or external datasets.<n>We improve the performance of point-based methods by effectively learning features from 2D representations through point-plane projections.
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• Abstract: LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or incorporating data from other sensors, such as cameras or external datasets. However, these approaches often suffer from high computational complexity and require large amounts of training data, limiting their generalization in data-scarce scenarios. In this paper, we improve the performance of point-based methods by effectively learning features from 2D representations through point-plane projections, enabling the extraction of complementary information while relying solely on LiDAR data. Additionally, we introduce a geometry-aware technique for data augmentation that aligns with LiDAR sensor properties and mitigates class imbalance. We implemented and evaluated our method that applies point-plane projections onto multiple informative 2D representations of the point cloud. Experiments demonstrate that this approach leads to significant improvements in limited-data scenarios, while also achieving competitive results on two publicly available standard datasets, as SemanticKITTI and PandaSet. The code of our method is available at https://github.com/SiMoM0/3PNet

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