AUTHOR=Ye Xin , Gao Lang , Chen Jichen , Lei Mingyue 

TITLE=Based on cross-scale fusion attention mechanism network for semantic segmentation for street scenes

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurorobotics

VOLUME=Volume 17 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2023.1204418

DOI=10.3389/fnbot.2023.1204418

ISSN=1662-5218

ABSTRACT=Semantic segmentation, which is a fundamental task in the computer vision. Every pixel will have a specific semantic class assigned to it through semantic segmentation methods. Embedded systems and mobile devices are difficult to deploy high accuracy segmentation algorithms. Despite the rapid development of semantic segmentation, the balance between speed and accuracy must be improved.  As a solution to the above problems, we created a cross-scale fusion attention mechanism network called CFANet, which fuses feature maps from different scales. We first design a novel efficient residual module (ERM), which applies both dilation convolution and factorized convolution. Our CFANet is mainly construct of ERM. Subsequently, we designed a new multi-branch channel attention mechanism (MCAM) to refine the feature maps at different levels. Experiment results show that CFANet achieved 70.6% mean intersection over union (mIoU) and 67.7% mIoU on Cityscapes and CamVid datasets, respectively, with inference speeds of 118 FPS and 105 FPS on NVIDIA RTX2080Ti GPU cards with 0.84M parameters.