arXiv:2510.06582cs.CVcs.RO2025-10

用激光雷达视角构建智能标注流水线,降低人工成本同时保持高精度。

Through the Perspective of LiDAR: A Feature-Enriched and Uncertainty-Aware Annotation Pipeline for Terrestrial Point Cloud Segmentation

  • 将点云投影到2D球面,融合多源特征并用集成网络生成伪标签和不确定性图
  • 仅需约12个扫描数据量,mIoU达0.76且性能饱和,几何特征贡献最大
  • 适合生态监测、森林研究等需要高效高质点云分割的场景

地基激光扫描(TLS)点云的精准语义分割受限于高昂的人工标注成本。本文提出一种半自动、不确定性感知的标注流水线,结合球面投影、特征增强、集成学习与定向标注,显著降低标注工作量并保持高精度。该方法将3D点投影至2D球面网格,融合多源特征,训练一组分割网络生成伪标签与不确定性图,后者用于引导模糊区域的标注。2D输出回投影至3D,生成密集标注点云,并通过三层次可视化工具(2D特征图、3D彩色点云、紧凑虚拟球体)实现快速筛查与审阅指导。基于此流程构建了面向红树林森林的Mangrove3D语义分割数据集。进一步评估数据效率与特征重要性,回答两个核心问题:(1)所需标注数据量;(2)关键特征。结果表明,性能在约12个标注扫描后趋于饱和,几何特征贡献最显著,九通道紧凑特征堆栈已捕获近全部判别能力,平均交并比(mIoU)稳定在0.76左右。跨数据集测试在ForestSemantic与Semantic3D上验证了特征增强策略的泛化能力。本研究贡献包括:(i)一套鲁棒、具备不确定性感知的TLS标注流水线及可视化工具;(ii)Mangrove3D数据集;(iii)关于数据效率与特征重要性的实证指导,推动生态监测等领域中可扩展、高质量的TLS点云分割。数据集与处理脚本公开于 https://fz-rit.github.io/through-the-lidars-eye/。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate semantic segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds is limited by costly manual annotation. We propose a semi-automated, uncertainty-aware pipeline that integrates spherical projection, feature enrichment, ensemble learning, and targeted annotation to reduce labeling effort, while sustaining high accuracy. Our approach projects 3D points to a 2D spherical grid, enriches pixels with multi-source features, and trains an ensemble of segmentation networks to produce pseudo-labels and uncertainty maps, the latter guiding annotation of ambiguous regions. The 2D outputs are back-projected to 3D, yielding densely annotated point clouds supported by a three-tier visualization suite (2D feature maps, 3D colorized point clouds, and compact virtual spheres) for rapid triage and reviewer guidance. Using this pipeline, we build Mangrove3D, a semantic segmentation TLS dataset for mangrove forests. We further evaluate data efficiency and feature importance to address two key questions: (1) how much annotated data are needed and (2) which features matter most. Results show that performance saturates after ~12 annotated scans, geometric features contribute the most, and compact nine-channel stacks capture nearly all discriminative power, with the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) plateauing at around 0.76. Finally, we confirm the generalization of our feature-enrichment strategy through cross-dataset tests on ForestSemantic and Semantic3D. Our contributions include: (i) a robust, uncertainty-aware TLS annotation pipeline with visualization tools; (ii) the Mangrove3D dataset; and (iii) empirical guidance on data efficiency and feature importance, thus enabling scalable, high-quality segmentation of TLS point clouds for ecological monitoring and beyond. The dataset and processing scripts are publicly available at https://fz-rit.github.io/through-the-lidars-eye/.

点云分割激光雷达数据标注红树林

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