DiSCO-3D : Discovering and Segmenting Sub-Concepts from Open-vocabulary Queries in NeRF

Doriand Petit, Steve Bourgeois, Vincent Gay-Bellile, Florian Chabot, Loïc Barthe; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025, pp. 20043-20052

3D semantic segmentation provides high-level scene understanding for applications in robotics, autonomous systems, etc. Traditional methods adapt exclusively to either task-specific goals (open-vocabulary segmentation) or scene content (unsupervised semantic segmentation). We propose DiSCO-3D, the first method addressing the broader problem of 3D Open-Vocabulary Sub-concepts Discovery, which aims to provide a 3D semantic segmentation that adapts to both the scene and user queries. We build DiSCO-3D on Neural Fields representations, combining unsupervised segmentation with weak open-vocabulary guidance. Our evaluations demonstrate that DiSCO-3D achieves effective performance in Open-Vocabulary Sub-concepts Discovery and exhibits state-of-the-art results in the edge cases of both open-vocabulary and unsupervised segmentation.