arxiv: 2603.14764 · v3 · submitted 2026-03-16 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG

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Topology-Preserving Data Augmentation for Ring-Type Polygon Annotations

Sudip Laudari , Sang Hun Baek

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.AIcs.LG

keywords topology-preserving augmentationring-type polygonspolygon annotationsdata augmentationsemantic segmentationcyclic adjacency preservationgeometric transformationsfloorplan analysis

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Repairing adjacency relations in index space preserves ring polygon topology under geometric augmentation

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Standard geometric data augmentations like cropping can break ring-type polygons that encode an interior void as part of one ordered vertex chain, splitting what should remain a single semantic region into disconnected pieces. The paper proposes a lightweight repair that restores the missing cyclic adjacencies directly in the vertex index sequence while leaving the original vertex order unchanged. This approach adds minimal overhead and slots into existing preprocessing pipelines for polygon-based segmentation. Experiments demonstrate near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation across common transformations and higher annotation consistency overall.

Core claim

The proposed topology-preserving augmentation repairs missing adjacency relations in index space while preserving the original vertex order, thereby maintaining the semantic validity of ring-type polygons that represent regions with interior voids as single ordered chains. This prevents one semantic region from fragmenting into disconnected components after operations such as cropping or clipping. The method achieves near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation across common geometric transformations and improves annotation consistency with only lightweight computational cost.

What carries the argument

The index-space adjacency repair that reconnects broken cyclic relations by adjusting vertex indices without reordering the polygon chain or altering geometry

If this is right

Near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation is achieved across common geometric transformations
Annotation consistency improves in polygon-based segmentation workflows
The method adds minimal overhead and integrates into existing preprocessing pipelines
One semantic region is prevented from splitting into disconnected components

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same index repair could support more aggressive cropping ranges that are currently avoided to prevent topology loss
Similar index-based fixes might extend to ordered structures such as polylines in mapping or 3D mesh annotations with holes

Load-bearing premise

That repairing adjacency relations in index space while preserving vertex order is sufficient to maintain semantic validity of the ring-type polygon under all relevant transformations without introducing new artifacts

What would settle it

A side-by-side check of the enclosed area and number of interior voids in the repaired polygon versus the original after a crop or clip operation that removes bridge vertices

read the original abstract

Geometric data augmentation is widely used in segmentation workflows, but polygon annotations are often assumed to remain valid after transformation. This assumption can fail in structured domains such as architectural floorplan analysis, where a region may contain an interior void encoded as part of a single ordered polygon chain. Cropping or clipping can remove bridge vertices in this chain, causing one semantic region to split into disconnected components. We propose a lightweight topology-preserving augmentation strategy that repairs missing adjacency relations in index space while preserving the original vertex order. The method adds minimal overhead and can be integrated into existing preprocessing workflows. Experiments show that the proposed approach achieves near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation (CAP) across common geometric transformations and improves annotation consistency in polygon-based segmentation.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper offers a targeted index-space repair to keep ring polygons topologically valid after cropping and other augmentations, but thin experimental details leave the practical payoff unclear.

read the letter

The core contribution is a lightweight repair step that restores cyclic adjacency in index space for ring-type polygons while keeping the original vertex order. This addresses a specific failure mode in floorplan segmentation where a single polygon chain encodes both exterior and hole boundaries, and cropping can delete bridge vertices and split the region. The approach adds minimal overhead and slots into standard preprocessing, which is a genuine engineering win for anyone already using geometric augmentations on these annotations. The abstract reports near-perfect CAP scores, and the method is presented as a direct fix rather than a heavy theoretical lift, which matches the evidence given. Prior work on general polygon augmentations does not appear to cover this exact repair rule, so the targeted application is new on its own terms. The main limitation is the lack of concrete experimental reporting. No baselines, dataset sizes, transformation parameters, or failure cases are described, so it is hard to tell whether the repair always recovers the intended semantic boundaries or occasionally creates self-intersections or wrong hole counts. The stress-test concern about multiple reconnection choices after vertex deletion is reasonable and not addressed in the abstract. A reader working on polygon segmentation in structured domains would find the idea useful to try, especially if code is released. For a general CV audience the scope is narrow. The work shows clear thinking on the annotation problem and honest focus on a practical gap, so it deserves peer review to check the implementation and results rather than a desk reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a lightweight topology-preserving data augmentation strategy for ring-type polygon annotations that encode interior voids within a single ordered chain. It repairs missing adjacency relations in index space while preserving original vertex order to prevent region splitting under transformations such as cropping or clipping. The central claim is that this approach achieves near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation (CAP) across common geometric transformations and improves annotation consistency in polygon-based segmentation tasks, with minimal computational overhead.

Significance. If the experimental outcomes hold under scrutiny, the method offers a practical engineering contribution for segmentation pipelines in domains like architectural floorplan analysis, where invalid post-augmentation polygons are a common issue. The parameter-free nature of the index-space repair and its compatibility with existing workflows are potential strengths, but the lack of detailed validation limits assessment of broader impact.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the claim of near-perfect CAP scores across transformations rests on unverified experimental outcomes; no details are provided on setup, baselines, datasets, or error analysis, which is load-bearing for the effectiveness claim.
[Method] Method section (implied by description of index-space repair): the assumption that adjacency repair while preserving vertex order unambiguously recovers semantic partitioning (exterior vs. hole boundaries) may fail for cropping that deletes bridge vertices, as multiple reconnection choices exist; this can produce geometric embeddings that no longer match the intended region, and CAP does not detect resulting self-intersections or altered hole counts.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] The abstract and description would benefit from explicit definition of the CAP metric and how it is computed, including any edge cases for ring-type polygons.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below with point-by-point responses and indicate proposed revisions to improve clarity and robustness.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of near-perfect CAP scores across transformations rests on unverified experimental outcomes; no details are provided on setup, baselines, datasets, or error analysis, which is load-bearing for the effectiveness claim.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from more context to support the effectiveness claim. The full manuscript (Section 4) details the experimental setup, including architectural floorplan datasets (both synthetic and real), transformations tested (cropping, clipping, rotation, scaling), baselines (standard geometric augmentation without repair), and error analysis showing CAP scores >0.99 with low variance. In the revision, we will expand the abstract with a concise summary sentence such as: 'Experiments on floorplan datasets show near-perfect CAP (>0.99) across transformations with minimal overhead compared to baselines.' This addresses the load-bearing nature of the claim without altering the core contribution. revision: yes
Referee: [Method] Method section (implied by description of index-space repair): the assumption that adjacency repair while preserving vertex order unambiguously recovers semantic partitioning (exterior vs. hole boundaries) may fail for cropping that deletes bridge vertices, as multiple reconnection choices exist; this can produce geometric embeddings that no longer match the intended region, and CAP does not detect resulting self-intersections or altered hole counts.

Authors: We appreciate this observation on potential edge cases. Our index-space repair reconnects vertices deterministically by restoring the original cyclic order: for any deleted segment, the remaining chain endpoints are linked according to their pre-transformation indices, which uniquely encodes the traversal (exterior vs. hole) without multiple choices. This preserves the semantic partitioning as long as the original ordering is maintained. We did not observe failures or self-intersections in our experiments, and CAP is intentionally scoped to adjacency preservation rather than full geometric validity. In the revised manuscript, we will add a limitations paragraph in the method section discussing this assumption, report zero self-intersection rates from our tests, and clarify CAP's scope. We can also include an optional post-repair geometric check if the referee deems it necessary. revision: partial

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

CAP preservation is enforced by the adjacency-repair step by construction

specific steps

self definitional [Abstract]
"We propose a lightweight topology-preserving augmentation strategy that repairs missing adjacency relations in index space while preserving the original vertex order. [...] Experiments show that the proposed approach achieves near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation (CAP) across common geometric transformations"

The strategy is defined to perform exactly the adjacency repair whose success is then measured by CAP; therefore the reported near-perfect CAP score follows directly from applying the repair rule and does not constitute an independent empirical result about semantic or geometric validity.

full rationale

The paper defines its augmentation explicitly as a repair of missing adjacency relations in index space, then reports near-perfect performance on the CAP metric that directly quantifies those same adjacencies. This reduces the central experimental claim to a tautology of the method's own definition rather than an independent test of semantic validity under transformations such as cropping.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach assumes standard geometric transformations preserve vertex order except at clipping boundaries and that index-space adjacency repairs can restore topology without geometric recomputation. No free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Polygon annotations remain semantically valid if cyclic adjacency is restored after vertex removal during clipping.
Invoked implicitly when claiming the repair strategy maintains annotation consistency.

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