MILAN: Milli-Annotations for Lidar Semantic Segmentation
<|reference_start|>MILAN: Milli-Annotations for Lidar Semantic Segmentation: Annotating lidar point clouds for autonomous driving is a notoriously expensive and time-consuming task. In this work, we show that the quality of recent self-supervised lidar scan representations allows a great reduction of the annotation cost. Our method has two main steps. First, we show that self-supervised representations allow a simple and direct selection of highly informative lidar scans to annotate: training a network on these selected scans leads to much better results than a random selection of scans and, more interestingly, to results on par with selections made by SOTA active learning methods. In a second step, we leverage the same self-supervised representations to cluster points in our selected scans. Asking the annotator to classify each cluster, with a single click per cluster, then permits us to close the gap with fully-annotated training sets, while only requiring one thousandth of the point labels.<|reference_end|>
@article{samet2024milan:,
    title={MILAN: Milli-Annotations for Lidar Semantic Segmentation},
    author={Nermin Samet, Gilles Puy, Oriane Sim'eoni, Renaud Marlet},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15797},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.15797},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}