HDBFormer: Efficient RGB-D Semantic Segmentation with A Heterogeneous Dual-Branch Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13579v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:29:46 GMT
• Title: HDBFormer: Efficient RGB-D Semantic Segmentation with A Heterogeneous Dual-Branch Framework
• Authors: Shuobin Wei, Zhuang Zhou, Zhengan Lu, Zizhao Yuan, Binghua Su,
• Abstract summary: In RGB-D semantic segmentation for indoor scenes, a key challenge is effectively integrating the rich color information from RGB images with the spatial distance information from depth images.<n>We propose a novel heterogeneous dual-branch framework called HDBFormer, specifically designed to handle these modality differences.<n>For RGB images, which contain rich detail, we employ both a basic and detail encoder to extract local and global features.<n>For the simpler depth images, we propose LDFormer, a lightweight hierarchical encoder that efficiently extracts depth features with fewer parameters.
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• Abstract: In RGB-D semantic segmentation for indoor scenes, a key challenge is effectively integrating the rich color information from RGB images with the spatial distance information from depth images. However, most existing methods overlook the inherent differences in how RGB and depth images express information. Properly distinguishing the processing of RGB and depth images is essential to fully exploiting their unique and significant characteristics. To address this, we propose a novel heterogeneous dual-branch framework called HDBFormer, specifically designed to handle these modality differences. For RGB images, which contain rich detail, we employ both a basic and detail encoder to extract local and global features. For the simpler depth images, we propose LDFormer, a lightweight hierarchical encoder that efficiently extracts depth features with fewer parameters. Additionally, we introduce the Modality Information Interaction Module (MIIM), which combines transformers with large kernel convolutions to interact global and local information across modalities efficiently. Extensive experiments show that HDBFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance on the NYUDepthv2 and SUN-RGBD datasets. The code is available at: https://github.com/Weishuobin/HDBFormer.

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