Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Sparse and Inhomogeneous Annotations

Utilizing uniformly distributed sparse annotations, weakly supervised learning alleviates the heavy reliance on fine-grained annotations in point cloud semantic segmentation tasks. However, few works discuss the inhomogeneity of sparse annotations, albeit it is common in real-world scenarios. Therefore, this work introduces the probability density function into the gradient sampling approximation method to qualitatively analyze the impact of annotation sparsity and inhomogeneity under weakly supervised learning. Based on our analysis, we propose an Adaptive Annotation Distribution Network (AADNet) capable of robust learning on arbitrarily distributed sparse annotations. Specifically, we propose a label-aware point cloud downsampling strategy to increase the proportion of annotations involved in the training stage. Furthermore, we design the multiplicative dynamic entropy as the gradient calibration function to mitigate the gradient bias caused by non-uniformly distributed sparse annotations and explicitly reduce the epistemic uncertainty. Without any prior restrictions and additional information, our proposed method achieves comprehensive performance improvements at multiple label rates and different annotation distributions.

Authors

• Zhiyi Pan Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ultra High Definition Immersive Media Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University Peng Cheng Laboratory
• Nan Zhang
• Wei Gao Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ultra High Definition Immersive Media Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
• Shan Liu Media Lab, Tencent
• Ge Li Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ultra High Definition Immersive Media Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University

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