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Bootstrapping a 4D LiDAR Annotation Tool from Video Foundation Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Progress in 4D LiDAR segmentation is bottlenecked by data. Assigning temporally consistent labels across sparse point cloud sequences is costly and hard to scale, and every new task or domain tends to demand fresh dense annotation. This motivates a simple question of whether high-quality LiDAR training data can be produced automatically, without any human labeling. To this end, we introduce LiDAR-SAM2, a framework that turns a 2D video foundation model, SAM2, into a scalable source of supervision for the 4D LiDAR domain. On the data side, it automatically generates temporally coherent LiDAR-le

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