Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 32, Issue 8, 1212(2024)

Real-time urban street view semantic segmentation based on cross-layer aggregation network

Zhiqiang HOU1...2, Minjie CHENG1,2,*, Sugang MA1,2, Minjie QU1,2, and Xiaobao YANG12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Institute of Computer, Xi'an702, China
  • 2Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Network Data Analysis and Intelligent Processing, Xi'an71011, China
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    With the rapid development of autonomous driving technology, precise and efficient scene understanding has become increasingly important. Urban street scene semantic segmentation aims to accurately identify and segment elements such as pedestrians, obstacles, roads, and signs, providing necessary road information for autonomous driving technology. However, current semantic segmentation algorithms still face challenges in urban street scene segmentation, mainly manifested in issues such as insufficient discrimination between different categories of pixels, inaccurate understanding of complex scene structures, and inaccurate segmentation of small-scale objects or large-scale structures. To address these issues, this paper proposed a real-time urban street scene semantic segmentation algorithm based on a cross-layer aggregation network. Firstly, a pyramid pooling module combined with cross-layer aggregation was designed at the end of the encoder to efficiently extract multi-scale context information. Secondly, a cross-layer aggregation module was designed between the encoder and decoder, which enhances the representation ability of information by introducing a channel attention mechanism and gradually aggregates the features of the encoder stage to fully achieve feature reuse. Finally, a multi-scale fusion module was designed in the decoder stage, which aggregates global and local information in the channel dimension to promote the fusion of deep and shallow features. The proposed algorithm was validated on two common urban street scene datasets. On an RTX 3090 graphics card (TensorRT speed measurement environment), the algorithm achieves 73.0% mIoU accuracy on the Cityscapes test set with real-time performance of 294 FPS, and 75.8% mIoU accuracy on higher resolution images with real-time performance of 164 FPS; on the CamVid dataset, it achieves 74.8% mIoU accuracy with real-time performance of 239 FPS. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively balances accuracy and real-time performance, significantly improving semantic segmentation performance compared to other algorithms, and bringing new breakthroughs to the field of real-time urban street scene semantic segmentation.

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    Zhiqiang HOU, Minjie CHENG, Sugang MA, Minjie QU, Xiaobao YANG. Real-time urban street view semantic segmentation based on cross-layer aggregation network[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2024, 32(8): 1212

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    Received: Oct. 21, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 29, 2024

    The Author Email: CHENG Minjie (rebu1999@163.com)

    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20243208.1212

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