# TeFF: Tracking-enhanced Forgetting-free Few-shot 3D LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

Source: [TeFF: Tracking-enhanced Forgetting-free Few-shot 3D LiDAR Semantic Segmentation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa74a91e209131cea63093>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-26T03:15:34.723Z

Authors: Junbao Zhou, Jilin Mei, Pengze Wu, Liang Chen, Fangzhou Zhao, Xijun Zhao, Yu Hu

Published: 2024-08-28T09:18:36.000Z

## Abstract

In autonomous driving, 3D LiDAR plays a crucial role in understanding the vehicle's surroundings. However, the newly emerged, unannotated objects presents few-shot learning problem for semantic segmentation. This paper addresses the limitations of current few-shot semantic segmentation by exploiting the temporal continuity of LiDAR data. Employing a tracking model to generate pseudo-ground-truths from a sequence of LiDAR frames, our method significantly augments the dataset, enhancing the model's ability to learn on novel classes. However, this approach introduces a data imbalance biased to novel data that presents a new challenge of catastrophic forgetting. To mitigate this, we incorporate LoRA, a technique that reduces the number of trainable parameters, thereby preserving the model's performance on base classes while improving its adaptability to novel classes. This work represents a significant step forward in few-shot 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation for autonomous driving. Our code is available at https://github.com/junbao-zhou/Track-no-forgetting.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15657>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.15657.pdf>)
