Aerial-PASS: Panoramic Annular Scene Segmentation in Drone Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07209v1
• Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 12:01:16 GMT
• Title: Aerial-PASS: Panoramic Annular Scene Segmentation in Drone Videos
• Authors: Lei Sun, Jia Wang, Kailun Yang, Kaikai Wu, Xiangdong Zhou, Kaiwei Wang, Jian Bai
• Abstract summary: We design a UAV system with a Panoramic Annular Lens (PAL), which has the characteristics of small size, low weight, and a 360-degree annular FoV. A lightweight panoramic annular semantic segmentation neural network model is designed to achieve high-accuracy and real-time scene parsing. A comprehensive variety of experiments shows that the designed system performs satisfactorily in aerial panoramic scene parsing.
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• Abstract: Aerial pixel-wise scene perception of the surrounding environment is an important task for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Previous research works mainly adopt conventional pinhole cameras or fisheye cameras as the imaging device. However, these imaging systems cannot achieve large Field of View (FoV), small size, and lightweight at the same time. To this end, we design a UAV system with a Panoramic Annular Lens (PAL), which has the characteristics of small size, low weight, and a 360-degree annular FoV. A lightweight panoramic annular semantic segmentation neural network model is designed to achieve high-accuracy and real-time scene parsing. In addition, we present the first drone-perspective panoramic scene segmentation dataset Aerial-PASS, with annotated labels of track, field, and others. A comprehensive variety of experiments shows that the designed system performs satisfactorily in aerial panoramic scene parsing. In particular, our proposed model strikes an excellent trade-off between segmentation performance and inference speed suitable, validated on both public street-scene and our established aerial-scene datasets.

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