DeepChoice: Learning View Weighting for Image-Guided 3D Semantic Segmentation

Multi-view image-to-point label transfer is an effective strategy for 3D semantic segmentation, but its performance largely depends on how predictions from multiple image observations are fused for each 3D point. Most existing pipelines rely on hard voting or handcrafted weighting rules, which do not explicitly learn the reliability of each view under varying geometric and image-quality conditions. In this paper, we introduce DeepChoice, a lightweight view-weighting module for image-guided 3D semantic segmentation. For each visible observation of a 3D point, DeepChoice exploits a compact set of visibility cues, including incidence angle, range, contrast, sharpness, signal-to-noise ratio, and saturation, to predict normalized per-view weights used to aggregate 2D semantic class probabilities into final 3D point-wise predictions. The method is sensor-agnostic, requires no meshing, and can be integrated as a drop-in replacement for standard multi-view fusion rules. Experiments on the full GridNet-HD benchmark show that DeepChoice improves over hard voting by 3.85 mIoU points and over mean-probability fusion by 1.26 mIoU points, while reducing the gap with the AnyView oracle upper bound. The largest gains are observed on thin and difficult classes such as conductors, pylons, and insulators. Furthermore, a complementary evaluation on the Images&PointClouds Cultural Heritage dataset shows that the proposed weighting strategy remains beneficial under a very different acquisition context and scene structure, yielding a 1.55 mIoU point improvement over hard voting and a 0.48 mIoU point improvement over mean-probability fusion. A compact Transformer variant provides the best trade-off between accuracy and model size, outperforming a larger MLP-based alternative. These results show that learning how to weight views is a simple yet effective way to strengthen image-guided 3D semantic segmentation pipelines. Code is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/heig-vd-geo/DeepChoice.