Multi-Granularity Context Network for Efficient Video Semantic Segmentation
Current video semantic segmentation tasks involve two main challenges: how to take full advantage of multi-frame context information, and how to improve computational efficiency. To tackle the two challenges simultaneously, we present a novel Multi-Granularity Context Network (MGCNet) by aggregating...
Veröffentlicht in: | IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 32(2023) vom: 10., Seite 3163-3175 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
Sprache: | English |
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2023
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society |
Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
Zusammenfassung: | Current video semantic segmentation tasks involve two main challenges: how to take full advantage of multi-frame context information, and how to improve computational efficiency. To tackle the two challenges simultaneously, we present a novel Multi-Granularity Context Network (MGCNet) by aggregating context information at multiple granularities in a more effective and efficient way. Our method first converts image features into semantic prototypes, and then conducts a non-local operation to aggregate the per-frame and short-term contexts jointly. An additional long-term context module is introduced to capture the video-level semantic information during training. By aggregating both local and global semantic information, a strong feature representation is obtained. The proposed pixel-to-prototype non-local operation requires less computational cost than traditional non-local ones, and is video-friendly since it reuses the semantic prototypes of previous frames. Moreover, we propose an uncertainty-aware and structural knowledge distillation strategy to boost the performance of our method. Experiments on Cityscapes and CamVid datasets with multiple backbones demonstrate that the proposed MGCNet outperforms other state-of-the-art methods with high speed and low latency |
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Beschreibung: | Date Completed 04.06.2023 Date Revised 04.06.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
ISSN: | 1941-0042 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TIP.2023.3269982 |