Boundary-Enhanced Segmentation of Pig Point Clouds in Commercial Housing Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11697v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:15:01 GMT
• Title: Boundary-Enhanced Segmentation of Pig Point Clouds in Commercial Housing Environments
• Abstract summary: Pig point clouds often come into close contact with background structures, resulting in blurred target boundaries, local adhesion, and background mis-segmentation.<n>This study proposes a pig point cloud segmentation method based on boundary feature analysis.<n>The proposed method adopts Octree Transformer as the backbone network and integrates local geometric details with global semantic context.
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• Abstract: In real pigsty environments, pig point clouds often come into close contact with background structures, resulting in blurred target boundaries, local adhesion, and background mis-segmentation. This reduces the accuracy of subsequent point cloud completion and body size measurement. To address these challenges, this study proposes a pig point cloud segmentation method based on boundary feature analysis. The proposed method adopts Octree Transformer as the backbone network and integrates local geometric details with global semantic context through octree convolution, self-attention encoding, and multi-scale feature fusion. Furthermore, soft-distance boundary pseudo-labels are generated to provide continuous boundary supervision, and a bidirectional cross-boundary semantic module is designed to enable explicit interaction between boundary and semantic features. Experiments conducted on a comprehensive dataset demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms various state-of-the-art models in terms of segmentation accuracy, mean intersection over union, and boundary delineation. The results indicate that the method effectively alleviates boundary adhesion, providing reliable point cloud inputs for downstream precision livestock farming tasks.

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