Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation for LiDAR Points

Existing perception methods for autonomous driving fall short of recognizing unknown entities not covered in the training data. Open-vocabulary methods offer promising capabilities in detecting any object but are limited by user-specified queries representing target classes. We propose AutoVoc3D, a framework for automatic object class recognition and open-ended segmentation. Evaluation on nuScenes showcases AutoVoc3D's ability to generate precise semantic classes and accurate point-wise segmentation. Moreover, we introduce Text-Point Semantic Similarity, a new metric to assess the semantic similarity between text and point cloud without eliminating novel classes.