Unsupervised Online 3D Instance Segmentation with Synthetic Sequences and Dynamic Loss

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23194v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:53:27 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Online 3D Instance Segmentation with Synthetic Sequences and Dynamic Loss
• Authors: Yifan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Chuangxin He, Zhonghua Miao, Junhui Hou,
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised online 3D instance segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task.<n>Existing methods, such as UNIT, have made progress in this direction but remain constrained by limited training diversity.<n>We propose a new framework that enriches the training distribution through synthetic point cloud sequence generation.
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• Abstract: Unsupervised online 3D instance segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, as it requires maintaining consistent object identities across LiDAR scans without relying on annotated training data. Existing methods, such as UNIT, have made progress in this direction but remain constrained by limited training diversity, rigid temporal sampling, and heavy dependence on noisy pseudo-labels. We propose a new framework that enriches the training distribution through synthetic point cloud sequence generation, enabling greater diversity without relying on manual labels or simulation engines. To better capture temporal dynamics, our method incorporates a flexible sampling strategy that leverages both adjacent and non-adjacent frames, allowing the model to learn from long-range dependencies as well as short-term variations. In addition, a dynamic-weighting loss emphasizes confident and informative samples, guiding the network toward more robust representations. Through extensive experiments on SemanticKITTI, nuScenes, and PandaSet, our method consistently outperforms UNIT and other unsupervised baselines, achieving higher segmentation accuracy and more robust temporal associations. The code will be publicly available at github.com/Eaphan/SFT3D.

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