RangeSAM: Leveraging Visual Foundation Models for Range-View repesented LiDAR segmentationPaul Julius K\"uhn, Duc Anh Nguyen, Arjan Kuijper, Holger Graf, Dieter Fellner, Saptarshi Neil Sinhahttps://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15886
RangeSAM: Leveraging Visual Foundation Models for Range-View repesented LiDAR segmentationPoint cloud segmentation is central to autonomous driving and 3D scene understanding. While voxel- and point-based methods dominate recent research due to their compatibility with deep architectures and ability to capture fine-grained geometry, they often incur high computational cost, irregular memory access, and limited real-time efficiency. In contrast, range-view methods, though relatively underexplored - can leverage mature 2D semantic segmentation techniques for fast and accurate predicti…