arXiv:2505.11516cs.ROeess.IV2025-05

针对3D点云语义分割的主动学习难题,提出高效且平衡类别的新方法。

SELECT: A Submodular Approach for Active LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

  • 基于体素的子模优化,快速筛选代表性区域,提升可扩展性。
  • 通过蒙特卡洛丢弃估计不确定性,精准识别关键点云区域。
  • 引入点级类别平衡机制,有效缓解罕见类别样本不足问题。

基于激光雷达的语义分割在自动驾驶中对理解三维环境至关重要,但标注点云成本极高,需为数百万具有复杂几何结构的点分配语义标签。主动学习(AL)通过仅查询最具信息量的样本有望降低标注成本。然而现有方法在大规模3D数据上面临挑战:室外场景点数庞大且存在严重类别不平衡,稀有类别点数远少于主导类别。为此,我们提出SELECT,一种面向主动激光雷达语义分割的体素中心子模方法。该方法通过三个协同阶段解决可扩展性与类别不平衡问题:首先进行体素级子模子集选择,避免成对比较,确保高效性;其次利用蒙特卡洛丢弃估计体素级模型不确定性,聚合点级不确定度以识别高信息量体素;最后采用子模最大化实现点级类别平衡,选出增强标签多样性的点子集,显式缓解类别不平衡。在SemanticPOSS、SemanticKITTI和nuScenes基准上的实验表明,SELECT在3D语义分割主动学习中优于现有方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving by enabling detailed understanding of 3D environments. However, annotating LiDAR point clouds is extremely costly and requires assigning semantic labels to millions of points with complex geometric structures. Active Learning (AL) has emerged as a promising approach to reduce labeling costs by querying only the most informative samples. Yet, existing AL methods face critical challenges when applied to large-scale 3D data: outdoor scenes contain an overwhelming number of points and suffer from severe class imbalance, where rare classes have far fewer points than dominant classes. To address these issues, we propose SELECT, a voxel-centric submodular approach tailored for active LiDAR semantic segmentation. Our method targets both scalability problems and class imbalance through three coordinated stages. First, we perform Voxel-Level Submodular Subset Selection, which efficiently identifies representative voxels without pairwise comparisons, ensuring scalability. Second, we estimate Voxel-Level Model Uncertainty using Monte Carlo dropout, aggregating point-wise uncertainties to identify informative voxels. Finally, we introduce Submodular Maximization for Point-Level Class Balancing, which selects a subset of points that enhances label diversity, explicitly mitigating class imbalance. Experiments on SemanticPOSS, SemanticKITTI, and nuScenes benchmarks demonstrate that SELECT achieves superior performance compared to prior active learning approaches for 3D semantic segmentation.

主动学习点云分割激光雷达子模优化

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