Rethinking 3D Segmentation from Individual LiDAR Scans: Incidence-Aware Sampling on the SIP Benchmark

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07757v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:42:43 GMT
• Title: Rethinking 3D Segmentation from Individual LiDAR Scans: Incidence-Aware Sampling on the SIP Benchmark
• Abstract summary: This study introduces an incidence-aware sampling strategy for individual LiDAR scans.<n>The method maps points to a geometry-normalized manifold space for voxel-based selection.<n>Experiments with Point Transformer and PointNeXt show improved resolution-averaged segmentation performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 3D scene understanding is increasingly important in construction, yet most methods are developed on curated datasets that do not fully reflect real site sensing conditions. In many workflows, individual LiDAR scans provide rapid local updates rather than complete scene representations, producing limited surface coverage, acquisition-driven density variation, and severe imbalance between dominant planar surfaces and sparse construction elements. Because large point clouds must be downsampled, sampling resolution and point allocation directly affect the balance between geometric detail and spatial context. This study evaluates these effects under a fixed per-fragment point budget and introduces an incidence-aware sampling strategy for individual LiDAR scans. The method maps points to a geometry-normalized manifold space for voxel-based selection while preserving original Euclidean coordinates for downstream learning. It requires only point coordinates and normals and no backbone modification. Using the Site in Pieces (SIP) benchmark, experiments with Point Transformer and PointNeXt show improved resolution-averaged segmentation performance, especially for non-planar elements and ladders, while reducing sensitivity to sampling resolution. The results show that acquisition-aware sampling can provide a more stable geometric representation and should be treated as an active component of individual-scan 3D segmentation rather than generic preprocessing.

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