Journal of Xidian University ›› 2023, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (1): 118-128.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2023.01.014

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Lightweight semantic segmentation network for autonomous driving scenarios

LIU Bochong(),CAI Huaiyu(),YANG Shiyuan(),LI Haotian(),WANG Yi(),CHEN Xiaodong()   

  1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology,School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300072,China
  • Received:2022-03-04 Online:2023-02-20 Published:2023-03-21

Abstract:

In the autonomous driving scenario,aiming at the problem of limited memory and insufficient computing power when the semantic segmentation model is deployed in vehicle hardware devices,it is necessary to design a semantic segmentation model that can balance efficiency and accuracy.In this paper,a single-branch network structure is used to design a lightweight multi-scale bidirectional attention network.To achieve efficient feature extraction,a lightweight convolutional unit is designed to form the feature extraction backbone of the network.In order to better locate and segment objects with large scale differences in road scenes,a multi-scale bidirectional attention module is proposed which has a global multi-scale receptive field and encodes channel attention in one direction while preserving spatial location information in the other.Based on this attention module,a skip attention connection module and a feature attention fusion module are designed,so that the output features have both detailed information and semantic information.On the Cityscapes dataset,the model in this paper achieves an MIoU(Mean Intersection over Union) of 71.86% with a parameter size of 0.9M,and achieves an inference speed of 88FPS(Frames Per Second) under a single RTX2080Ti GPU.The test results on public datasets show that the model achieves a high segmentation accuracy and is suitable for deployment and application under in-vehicle hardware,which is of certain practical value.

Key words: automatic driving, semantic segmentation, lightweight network, attention mechanism, deep learning

CLC Number: 

  • TP391.4