Improving Open-Set Semantic Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds by Conditional Channel Capacity Maximization: Preliminary Results

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Auteurs principaux: Fang, Wang, Rahimi, Shirin, Bennett, Olivia, Carter, Sophie, Hassani, Mitra, Lan, Xu, Javadi, Omid, Mitchell, Lucas
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author Fang, Wang
Rahimi, Shirin
Bennett, Olivia
Carter, Sophie
Hassani, Mitra
Lan, Xu
Javadi, Omid
Mitchell, Lucas
author_facet Fang, Wang
Rahimi, Shirin
Bennett, Olivia
Carter, Sophie
Hassani, Mitra
Lan, Xu
Javadi, Omid
Mitchell, Lucas
contents Point-cloud semantic segmentation underpins a wide range of critical applications. Although recent deep architectures and large-scale datasets have driven impressive closed-set performance, these models struggle to recognize or properly segment objects outside their training classes. This gap has sparked interest in Open-Set Semantic Segmentation (O3S), where models must both correctly label known categories and detect novel, unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a plug and play framework for O3S. By modeling the segmentation pipeline as a conditional Markov chain, we derive a novel regularizer term dubbed Conditional Channel Capacity Maximization (3CM), that maximizes the mutual information between features and predictions conditioned on each class. When incorporated into standard loss functions, 3CM encourages the encoder to retain richer, label-dependent features, thereby enhancing the network's ability to distinguish and segment previously unseen categories. Experimental results demonstrate effectiveness of proposed method on detecting unseen objects. We further outline future directions for dynamic open-world adaptation and efficient information-theoretic estimation.
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spellingShingle Improving Open-Set Semantic Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds by Conditional Channel Capacity Maximization: Preliminary Results
Fang, Wang
Rahimi, Shirin
Bennett, Olivia
Carter, Sophie
Hassani, Mitra
Lan, Xu
Javadi, Omid
Mitchell, Lucas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Point-cloud semantic segmentation underpins a wide range of critical applications. Although recent deep architectures and large-scale datasets have driven impressive closed-set performance, these models struggle to recognize or properly segment objects outside their training classes. This gap has sparked interest in Open-Set Semantic Segmentation (O3S), where models must both correctly label known categories and detect novel, unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a plug and play framework for O3S. By modeling the segmentation pipeline as a conditional Markov chain, we derive a novel regularizer term dubbed Conditional Channel Capacity Maximization (3CM), that maximizes the mutual information between features and predictions conditioned on each class. When incorporated into standard loss functions, 3CM encourages the encoder to retain richer, label-dependent features, thereby enhancing the network's ability to distinguish and segment previously unseen categories. Experimental results demonstrate effectiveness of proposed method on detecting unseen objects. We further outline future directions for dynamic open-world adaptation and efficient information-theoretic estimation.
title Improving Open-Set Semantic Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds by Conditional Channel Capacity Maximization: Preliminary Results
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11521