Title
Efficient Ladder-Style DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation of Large Images
Abstract
Recent progress of deep image classification models provides great potential for improving related computer vision tasks. However, the transition to semantic segmentation is hampered by strict memory limitations of contemporary GPUs. The extent of feature map caching required by convolutional backprop poses significant challenges even for moderately sized Pascal images, while requiring careful architectural considerations when input resolution is in the megapixel range. To address these concerns, we propose a novel ladder-style DenseNet-based architecture which features high modelling power, efficient upsampling, and inherent spatial efficiency which we unlock with checkpointing. The resulting models deliver high performance and allow training at megapixel resolution on commodity hardware. The presented experimental results outperform the state-of-the-art in terms of prediction accuracy and execution speed on Cityscapes, VOC 2012, CamVid and ROB 2018 datasets. Source code at https://github.com/ivankreso/LDN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TITS.2020.2984894
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,supervised learning,image segmentation,road transportation
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1524-9050
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan Krešo1414.32
Josip Krapac219912.31
Siniša Šegvić316219.46
Siniša Šegvić416219.46