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Record W4408779932 · doi:10.1109/tnnls.2025.3543620

SDSimPoint: Shallow-Deep Similarity Learning for Few-Shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

2025· article· en· W4408779932 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
Topic3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSimilarity (geometry)Artificial intelligencePoint cloudShot (pellet)SegmentationSemantic similarityComputer scienceCloud computingPoint (geometry)Natural language processingPattern recognition (psychology)Image (mathematics)MathematicsChemistryGeometry

Abstract

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Three-dimensional point cloud semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. As the fully supervised approaches suffer from the generalization issue with limited data, few-shot point cloud segmentation models have been proposed to address the flexible adaptation. Nevertheless, due to the class-agnostic nature of the few-shot pretraining, its pretrained feature extractor is hard to capture the class-related intrinsic and abstract information. Therefore, we introduce the new concept of shallow and deep similarities and propose a shallow-deep similarity learning network (SDSimPoint) that aims to learn both shallow (superficial geometry, color, etc.) and deep similarities (intrinsic context and semantics, etc.) between the support and query samples, thereby boosting the performance. Moreover, we design a beyond-episode attention module (BEAM) to enlarge the region of the attention mechanism from a single episode to the entire dataset by utilizing the memory units, which enhances the extraction ability to better capture the shallow and deep similarities. Furthermore, our distance metric function is learnable in the proposed framework, which can better adapt to complex data distributions. Our proposed SDSimPoint consistently demonstrates substantial improvements compared to baseline approaches across various datasets in diverse few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation settings.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.509
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it