Point-Plane Projections for Accurate LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Small Data Scenarios

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Main Authors: Mosco, Simone, Fusaro, Daniel, Li, Wanmeng, Menegatti, Emanuele, Pretto, Alberto
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Published: 2025
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author Mosco, Simone
Fusaro, Daniel
Li, Wanmeng
Menegatti, Emanuele
Pretto, Alberto
author_facet Mosco, Simone
Fusaro, Daniel
Li, Wanmeng
Menegatti, Emanuele
Pretto, Alberto
contents LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or incorporating data from other sensors, such as cameras or external datasets. However, these approaches often suffer from high computational complexity and require large amounts of training data, limiting their generalization in data-scarce scenarios. In this paper, we improve the performance of point-based methods by effectively learning features from 2D representations through point-plane projections, enabling the extraction of complementary information while relying solely on LiDAR data. Additionally, we introduce a geometry-aware technique for data augmentation that aligns with LiDAR sensor properties and mitigates class imbalance. We implemented and evaluated our method that applies point-plane projections onto multiple informative 2D representations of the point cloud. Experiments demonstrate that this approach leads to significant improvements in limited-data scenarios, while also achieving competitive results on two publicly available standard datasets, as SemanticKITTI and PandaSet. The code of our method is available at https://github.com/SiMoM0/3PNet
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spellingShingle Point-Plane Projections for Accurate LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Small Data Scenarios
Mosco, Simone
Fusaro, Daniel
Li, Wanmeng
Menegatti, Emanuele
Pretto, Alberto
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or incorporating data from other sensors, such as cameras or external datasets. However, these approaches often suffer from high computational complexity and require large amounts of training data, limiting their generalization in data-scarce scenarios. In this paper, we improve the performance of point-based methods by effectively learning features from 2D representations through point-plane projections, enabling the extraction of complementary information while relying solely on LiDAR data. Additionally, we introduce a geometry-aware technique for data augmentation that aligns with LiDAR sensor properties and mitigates class imbalance. We implemented and evaluated our method that applies point-plane projections onto multiple informative 2D representations of the point cloud. Experiments demonstrate that this approach leads to significant improvements in limited-data scenarios, while also achieving competitive results on two publicly available standard datasets, as SemanticKITTI and PandaSet. The code of our method is available at https://github.com/SiMoM0/3PNet
title Point-Plane Projections for Accurate LiDAR Semantic Segmentation in Small Data Scenarios
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10841