Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 83-88.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2025.05.012

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Dual-Path Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Network with Channel-Level Global Attention Mechanism

HU Jinlei1, TIAN Engang1(), QU Feng2   

  1. 1. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China
    2. Changzhou Housing Provident Fund Management Center,Changzhou 213003,China
  • Received:2023-11-14 Revised:2023-12-13 Online:2025-05-15 Published:2025-05-14
  • Contact: TIAN Engang E-mail:tianengang@163.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(62173231)

Abstract:

In view of the problems of the mainstream real-time semantic segmentation methods, such as poor multi-scale feature extraction ability, weak feature extraction ability of lightweight backbone network, and lack of effective fusion of context information, a two-path real-time semantic segmentation model with global attention mechanism is proposed in this study. The FPPM(Fast Pyramid Pooling Module) is lightweight based on the PPM(Pyramid Pooling Module) to improve the speed of the module while maintaining multi-scale information extraction. Spatial information branching can compensate for the performance loss caused using lightweight backbone networks. The channel global attention mechanism effectively integrates spatial information and semantic information extracted by backbone network, and interacts with global information to improve the segmentation performance of the model. Without pre-training with other data sets, the proposed model achieves 73.8% average cross ratio on PASCAL VOC2012 validation data set with 14.6 MB of reference, and reaches 43 frame∙s-1 on NVIDIA TITAN Xp,which indicates that the model achieves a good balance in accuracy and speed.

Key words: semantic segmentation, dual-path, attention mechanism, multi-scale pooling, real-time, deep learning, information fusion, lightweight

CLC Number: 

  • TP391