Few-Shot Point Cloud Region Annotation with Human in the Loop

June 2019

Few-Shot Point Cloud Region Annotation with Human in the Loop

Authors:

S. Jain, S. Munukutla, and D. Held

Abstract:

We propose a point cloud annotation framework that employs human-in-loop learning to enable the creation of large point cloud datasets with per-point annotations. Sparse labels from a human annotator are iteratively propagated to generate a full segmentation of the network by fine-tuning a pre-trained model of an allied task via a few-shot learning paradigm. We show that the proposed framework significantly reduces the amount of human interaction needed in annotating point clouds, without sacrificing on the quality of the annotations. Our experiments also suggest the suitability of the framework in annotating large datasets by noting a reduction in human interaction as the number of full annotations completed by the system increases. Finally, we demonstrate the flexibility of the framework to support multiple different annotations of the same point cloud enabling the creation of datasets with different granularities of annotation.
@workshop{Jain-2019-119979,
author = {S. Jain And S. Munukutla And D. Held},
title = {Few-Shot Point Cloud Region Annotation with Human in the Loop},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICML '19 Workshop on Human In the Loop Learning (HILL '19)},
year = {2019},
month = {June},
}
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