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Not All Pixels Are Equal: Difficulty-Aware Semantic Segmentation via Deep Layer Cascade

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Li, Xiaoxiao, Liu, Ziwei, Luo, Ping, Loy, Chen Change, Tang, Xiaoou·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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We propose a novel deep layer cascade (LC) method to improve the accuracy and speed of semantic segmentation. Unlike the conventional model cascade (MC) that is composed of multiple independent models, LC treats a single deep model as a cascade of several sub-models. Earlier sub-models are trained to handle easy and confident regions, and they progressively feed-forward harder regions to the next sub-model for processing. Convolutions are only calculated on these regions to reduce computations. The proposed method possesses several advantages. First, LC classifies most of the easy regions in the shallow stage and makes deeper stage focuses on a few hard regions. Such an adaptive and difficulty-aware learning improves segmentation performance. Second, LC accelerates both training and testing of deep network thanks to early decisions in the shallow stage. Third, in comparison to MC, LC is an end-to-end trainable framework, allowing joint learning of all sub-models. We evaluate our method on PASCAL VOC and Cityscapes datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance and fast speed.

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Authors
Li, X., Liu, Z., Luo, P., Loy, C. C., & Tang, X.
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
6459-6468
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
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268
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conference paper
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Li, X., Liu, Z., Luo, P., Loy, C. C., & Tang, X. (2017). Not All Pixels Are Equal: Difficulty-Aware Semantic Segmentation via Deep Layer Cascade. 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.684

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