Improving Panoptic Segmentation for Nighttime or Low-Illumination Urban Driving Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13725v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:14:26 GMT
• Title: Improving Panoptic Segmentation for Nighttime or Low-Illumination Urban Driving Scenes
• Authors: Ankur Chrungoo
• Abstract summary: We propose two new methods to improve the performance and robustness of Panoptic segmentation. One of the main factors for poor results is the lack of sufficient and accurately annotated nighttime images for urban driving scenes. The proposed approach makes use of CycleGAN to translate daytime images with existing panoptic annotations into nighttime images. It is then utilized to retrain a Panoptic segmentation model to improve performance and robustness under poor illumination and nighttime conditions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Autonomous vehicles and driving systems use scene parsing as an essential tool to understand the surrounding environment. Panoptic segmentation is a state-of-the-art technique which proves to be pivotal in this use case. Deep learning-based architectures have been utilized for effective and efficient Panoptic Segmentation in recent times. However, when it comes to adverse conditions like dark scenes with poor illumination or nighttime images, existing methods perform poorly in comparison to daytime images. One of the main factors for poor results is the lack of sufficient and accurately annotated nighttime images for urban driving scenes. In this work, we propose two new methods, first to improve the performance, and second to improve the robustness of panoptic segmentation in nighttime or poor illumination urban driving scenes using a domain translation approach. The proposed approach makes use of CycleGAN (Zhu et al., 2017) to translate daytime images with existing panoptic annotations into nighttime images, which are then utilized to retrain a Panoptic segmentation model to improve performance and robustness under poor illumination and nighttime conditions. In our experiments, Approach-1 demonstrates a significant improvement in the Panoptic segmentation performance on the converted Cityscapes dataset with more than +10% PQ, +12% RQ, +2% SQ, +14% mIoU and +10% AP50 absolute gain. Approach-2 demonstrates improved robustness to varied nighttime driving environments. Both the approaches are supported via comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis.

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