24 August 2023 PBSNet: pseudo bilateral segmentation network for real-time semantic segmentation
Hui-Lan Luo, Chun-Yan Liu, Soroosh Mahmoodi
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Abstract

Achieving real-time performance while maintaining high accuracy in semantic segmentation can be a challenging task. Many existing methods adopt multi-branch architectures to extract both spatial and semantic information, resulting in increased computational complexity and a lack of communication between branches. We propose a pseudo bilateral segmentation network (PBSNet) that can extract rich spatial and semantic features from a single path, without incurring additional computational cost or time consumption. Our proposed PBSNet utilizes a semantic enhancement module to explore the relationship between high-level semantic features, an interchange module to enhance feature representation through bi-directional vertical propagation and adaptive spatial attention, and an attention fusion module to aggregate multi-scale features to produce the final segmentation prediction. Our results on the Cityscapes dataset demonstrate the superiority of PBSNet over state-of-the-art methods, achieving a balance of accuracy and efficiency with 74.52% mean intersection over union and 82.5 frames per second.

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Hui-Lan Luo, Chun-Yan Liu, and Soroosh Mahmoodi "PBSNet: pseudo bilateral segmentation network for real-time semantic segmentation," Journal of Electronic Imaging 32(4), 043033 (24 August 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.32.4.043033
Received: 1 February 2023; Accepted: 9 August 2023; Published: 24 August 2023
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KEYWORDS
Semantics

Image segmentation

Scanning electron microscopy

Feature extraction

Feature fusion

Atomic force microscopy

Ablation

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