HCNet: Hierarchical Context Network for Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04962v2
• Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:06:36 GMT
• Title: HCNet: Hierarchical Context Network for Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Yanwen Chong, Congchong Nie, Yulong Tao, Xiaoshu Chen, Shaoming Pan
• Abstract summary: We propose a hierarchical context network to model homogeneous pixels with strong correlations and heterogeneous pixels with weak correlations. Our approach realizes a mean IoU of 82.8% and overall accuracy of 91.4% on Cityscapes and ISPRS Vaihingen dataset.
• Score: 6.4047628200011815
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Global context information is vital in visual understanding problems, especially in pixel-level semantic segmentation. The mainstream methods adopt the self-attention mechanism to model global context information. However, pixels belonging to different classes usually have weak feature correlation. Modeling the global pixel-level correlation matrix indiscriminately is extremely redundant in the self-attention mechanism. In order to solve the above problem, we propose a hierarchical context network to differentially model homogeneous pixels with strong correlations and heterogeneous pixels with weak correlations. Specifically, we first propose a multi-scale guided pre-segmentation module to divide the entire feature map into different classed-based homogeneous regions. Within each homogeneous region, we design the pixel context module to capture pixel-level correlations. Subsequently, different from the self-attention mechanism that still models weak heterogeneous correlations in a dense pixel-level manner, the region context module is proposed to model sparse region-level dependencies using a unified representation of each region. Through aggregating fine-grained pixel context features and coarse-grained region context features, our proposed network can not only hierarchically model global context information but also harvest multi-granularity representations to more robustly identify multi-scale objects. We evaluate our approach on Cityscapes and the ISPRS Vaihingen dataset. Without Bells or Whistles, our approach realizes a mean IoU of 82.8% and overall accuracy of 91.4% on Cityscapes and ISPRS Vaihingen test set, achieving state-of-the-art results.

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