arXiv Computer Vision

SenseFuse: Label-Free Fusion of Image and Shape Encoders for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation

SenseFuse introduces a label‑free fusion approach that balances 2D image and 3D shape encoders for open‑vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. By selecting a scene‑level fusion weight through an adaptive, sensitivity‑based mechanism, it improves mask labeling accuracy across multiple datasets, recovering up to 93% of the potential gain from an oracle weight. The method demonstrates that image and shape encoders have complementary failure patterns, leading to higher instance AP in most evaluated settings.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Lang3DSeg: Annotation-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation with Point Transformers

Lang3DSeg introduces a point‑transformer backbone for open‑vocabulary, annotation‑free 3D LiDAR segmentation, trained from scratch without geometric pre‑training. It tackles noise from 2D‑to‑3D label projections by applying a class‑priority rule and truncating projected instances at depth gaps, thereby correcting depth‑ambiguity errors. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on nuScenes (52.8 % mIoU) and SemanticKITTI (41.4 % mIoU) while operating in real‑time on a single LiDAR sweep.

By Cigdem Kokenoz, Amir Salarpour, Alkim Domeke, Christopher Salas, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Long Cheng, Mert D. Pes\'e, Bing Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

SAM-V: Geometry-Aware Segment Anything for Multi-View Instance Segmentation

SAM‑V is a geometry‑aware extension of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that integrates 3D priors from a feed‑forward geometry model (VGGT) into 2D segmentation. It uses a prompt‑fusion mechanism to combine sparse SAM prompts with view‑specific camera tokens and local VGGT features, enabling a mask decoder that attends to both dense 2D and 3D cues. The resulting end‑to‑end system produces consistent multi‑view instance segmentation in a single forward pass, achieving significant gains on the IGGT 3D tracking benchmark without offline mask matching or explicit 3D reconstruction.

By Jiangshan Gong, Yuqun Wu, Qiqian Fu, Yao Xiao, Chuhang Zou, Shenlong Wang, Derek Hoiem
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 22

Data-Efficient Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds via Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation-based Pseudo-Labeling

The paper introduces PLOVIS, a data‑efficient framework for semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds that tackles three simultaneous data shortages: few training scenes, sparse point‑level labels, and missing 2D image sequences. PLOVIS generates pseudo‑labels by applying an open‑vocabulary image segmentation model directly to 3D point clouds, then refines these labels through a two‑stage filtering process and a class‑balanced memory bank. Experiments on ScanNet, S3DIS, Toronto3D, and Semantic3D show that PLOVIS outperforms existing fine‑tuning and weakly supervised methods under realistic, data‑scarce conditions.

By Takahiko Furuya
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

CDIS: Cross-Dimensional Class-Agnostic 3D Instance Segmentation via 2D Mask Tracking and 3D-2D Projection Merging

Class-agnostic 3D instance segmentation is critical for robotic systems operating in unknown environments, enabling perception of previously unseen objects for reliable manipulation and navigation. Existing approaches typically project per-frame 2D instance masks into 3D and merge them, which often breaks object identities across time and yields fragmented 3D instances.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

TRACKGRAPH: Online Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs via Image-Space Tracking

TRACKGRAPH is an online open‑vocabulary 3D mapping system that tracks 2D masks in the image stream before fusing them into a class‑agnostic 3D segment layer within a hierarchical scene graph. It uses FastSAM and CLIP for sparse keyframes, DINOv3 for dense mask propagation, and compact multi‑view CLIP embeddings for open‑vocabulary retrieval. The method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art mapping techniques on Replica, ScanNet++, and HM3D, achieving higher synonym frequency, faster processing, and lower GPU memory usage, and has been deployed on quadruped robots and drones at real‑time rates.

By Peder Borge Hellesylt, Albert Gassol Puigjaner, Kostas Alexis, Annette Stahl