Title
Rtseg: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Comparative Study
Abstract
Semantic segmentation benefits robotics related applications, especially autonomous driving. Most of the research on semantic segmentation only focuses on increasing the accuracy of segmentation models with little attention to computationally efficient solutions. The few work conducted in this direction does not provide principled methods to evaluate the different design choices for segmentation. In this paper, we address this gap by presenting a real-time semantic segmentation benchmarking framework with a decoupled design for feature extraction and decoding methods. The framework is comprised of different network architectures for feature extraction such as VGG16, Resnet18, MobileNet, and ShuffleNet. It is also comprised of multiple meta-architectures for segmentation that define the decoding methodology. These include SkipNet, UNet, and Dilation Frontend. Experimental results are presented on the Cityscapes dataset for urban scenes. The modular design allows novel architectures to emerge, that lead to 143x GFLOPs reduction in comparison to SegNet. This benchmarking framework is publicly available at(1).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/icip.2018.8451495
2018 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
realtime, semantic segmentation, benchmarking framework
Conference
abs/1803.02758
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
3
0.38
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mennatullah Siam1367.06
mostafa gamal2103.67
Moemen Abdel-Razek371.20
Senthil Yogamani411020.63
Martin Jagersand510010.96