BiSeNet: Bilateral Segmentation Network for Real-time Semantic Segmentation

Changqian Yu, Jingbo Wang, Chao Peng, Changxin Gao, Gang Yu, Nong Sang; The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 325-341

Abstract


Semantic segmentation requires both rich spatial information and sizeable receptive field. However, modern approaches usually compromise spatial resolution to achieve real-time inference speed, which leads to poor performance. In this paper, we address this dilemma with a novel Bilateral Segmentation Network (BiSeNet). We first design a Spatial Path with a small stride to preserve the spatial information and generate high-resolution features. Meanwhile, a Context Path with a fast downsampling strategy is employed to obtain sufficient receptive field. On top of the two paths, we introduce a new Feature Fusion Module to combine features efficiently. The proposed architecture makes a right balance between the speed and segmentation performance on Cityscapes, CamVid, and COCO-Stuff datasets. Specifically, for a 2048x1024 input, we achieve 68.4% Mean IOU on the Cityscapes test dataset with speed of 105 FPS on one NVIDIA Titan XP card, which is significantly faster than the existing methods with comparable performance.

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@InProceedings{Yu_2018_ECCV,
author = {Yu, Changqian and Wang, Jingbo and Peng, Chao and Gao, Changxin and Yu, Gang and Sang, Nong},
title = {BiSeNet: Bilateral Segmentation Network for Real-time Semantic Segmentation},
booktitle = {The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}