Lidal: Inter-frame uncertainty based active learning for 3d lidar semantic segmentation

Z Hu, X Bai, R Zhang, X Wang, G Sun, H Fu… - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Z Hu, X Bai, R Zhang, X Wang, G Sun, H Fu, CL Tai
European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022Springer
We propose LiDAL, a novel active learning method for 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation by
exploiting inter-frame uncertainty among LiDAR frames. Our core idea is that a well-trained
model should generate robust results irrespective of viewpoints for scene scanning and thus
the inconsistencies in model predictions across frames provide a very reliable measure of
uncertainty for active sample selection. To implement this uncertainty measure, we introduce
new inter-frame divergence and entropy formulations, which serve as the metrics for active …
Abstract
We propose LiDAL, a novel active learning method for 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation by exploiting inter-frame uncertainty among LiDAR frames. Our core idea is that a well-trained model should generate robust results irrespective of viewpoints for scene scanning and thus the inconsistencies in model predictions across frames provide a very reliable measure of uncertainty for active sample selection. To implement this uncertainty measure, we introduce new inter-frame divergence and entropy formulations, which serve as the metrics for active selection. Moreover, we demonstrate additional performance gains by predicting and incorporating pseudo-labels, which are also selected using the proposed inter-frame uncertainty measure. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of LiDAL: we achieve 95% of the performance of fully supervised learning with less than 5% of annotations on the SemanticKITTI and nuScenes datasets, outperforming state-of-the-art active learning methods. Code release: https://github.com/hzykent/LiDAL.
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