A feature refinement module for light-weight semantic segmentation network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08670v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:31:20 GMT
• Title: A feature refinement module for light-weight semantic segmentation network
• Authors: Zhiyan Wang, Xin Guo, Song Wang, Peixiao Zheng, Lin Qi,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel semantic segmentation method to improve the capacity of obtaining semantic information for the light-weight network. On Cityscapes and Bdd100K datasets, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a promising trade-off between accuracy and computational cost.
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• Abstract: Low computational complexity and high segmentation accuracy are both essential to the real-world semantic segmentation tasks. However, to speed up the model inference, most existing approaches tend to design light-weight networks with a very limited number of parameters, leading to a considerable degradation in accuracy due to the decrease of the representation ability of the networks. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel semantic segmentation method to improve the capacity of obtaining semantic information for the light-weight network. Specifically, a feature refinement module (FRM) is proposed to extract semantics from multi-stage feature maps generated by the backbone and capture non-local contextual information by utilizing a transformer block. On Cityscapes and Bdd100K datasets, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a promising trade-off between accuracy and computational cost, especially for Cityscapes test set where 80.4% mIoU is achieved and only 214.82 GFLOPs are required.

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