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The motion segmentation task is considered in the application context of automotive Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), where we often need to distinguish between the static parts of the environment with respect to which we localize the vehicle, and non-stationary objects that should not be included in the map for localization. Non-stationary objects do not provide repeatable readouts, because they can be in motion, like vehicles and pedestrians, or because they do not have a rigid, stable surface, like trees and lawns. The proposed approach exploits images synthesized from the received intensity data yielded by the modern LiDARs along with the usual range measurements. We demonstrate that non-stationary objects can be detected using neural network models trained with 2-D grayscale images in the supervised or unsupervised training process. This concept makes it possible to alleviate the lack of large datasets of 3-D laser scans with point-wise annotations for non-stationary objects. The point clouds are filtered using the corresponding intensity images with labeled pixels. 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