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Guided Upsampling Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-07-20 v1

Abstract

Semantic segmentation architectures are mainly built upon an encoder-decoder structure. These models perform subsequent downsampling operations in the encoder. Since operations on high-resolution activation maps are computationally expensive, usually the decoder produces output segmentation maps by upsampling with parameters-free operators like bilinear or nearest-neighbor. We propose a Neural Network named Guided Upsampling Network which consists of a multiresolution architecture that jointly exploits high-resolution and large context information. Then we introduce a new module named Guided Upsampling Module (GUM) that enriches upsampling operators by introducing a learnable transformation for semantic maps. It can be plugged into any existing encoder-decoder architecture with little modifications and low additional computation cost. We show with quantitative and qualitative experiments how our network benefits from the use of GUM module. A comprehensive set of experiments on the publicly available Cityscapes dataset demonstrates that Guided Upsampling Network can efficiently process high-resolution images in real-time while attaining state-of-the art performances.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07466,
  title  = {Guided Upsampling Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation},
  author = {Davide Mazzini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07466},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted at BMVC 2018

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