Probabilistic interactive 3D segmentation with hierarchical neural processes
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
7-2025
Abstract
Interactive 3D segmentation has emerged as a promising solution for generating accurate object masks in complex 3D scenes by incorporating user-provided clicks. However, two critical challenges remain underexplored: (1) effectively generalizing from sparse user clicks to produce accurate segmentations and (2) quantifying predictive uncertainty to help users identify unreliable regions. In this work, we propose \emph{NPISeg3D}, a novel probabilistic framework that builds upon Neural Processes (NPs) to address these challenges. Specifically, NPISeg3D introduces a hierarchical latent variable structure with scene-specific and object-specific latent variables to enhance few-shot generalization by capturing both global context and object-specific characteristics. Additionally, we design a probabilistic prototype modulator that adaptively modulates click prototypes with object-specific latent variables, improving the model’s ability to capture object-aware context and quantify predictive uncertainty. Experiments on four 3D point cloud datasets demonstrate that NPISeg3D achieves superior segmentation performance with fewer clicks while providing reliable uncertainty estimations.
Discipline
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Research Areas
Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Publication
Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada, July 13
First Page
1
Last Page
20
City or Country
Vancouver, Canada
Citation
LIU, Jie; ZHOU, Pan; XIAO, Zehao; SHEN, Jiayi; YIN, Wenzhe; SONKE, Jan-Jakob; and GAVVES Efstratios.
Probabilistic interactive 3D segmentation with hierarchical neural processes. (2025). Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada, July 13. 1-20.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/10520
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https://openreview.net/forum?id=6qNbVtKGY2