• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 60, Issue 2, 0215004 (2023)
Zhaozhong Xu1, Li Peng1、2、*, and Feifei Dai3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Engineering Research Center of Internet of Things Technology Applications, School of IoT Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
  • 2Jiangsu Province Internet of Things Application Technology Key Construction Laboratory, Wuxi Taihu College, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
  • 3Taizhou Product Quality and Safety Monitoring Institute, Taizhou 318000, Zhejiang, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP212814 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhaozhong Xu, Li Peng, Feifei Dai. Semantic Segmentation Method Based on Multiscale Feature Alignment and Aggregation[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(2): 0215004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    During semantic segmentation of images, a convolutional neural network easily misplaces the high-level features with low-level features after down-sampling and padding operations. To solve the mismatch problem between high- and low-level features and better aggregate the multiscale feature information, this paper proposes a semantic segmentation method with a multiscale feature alignment aggregation (MFAA) module. The MFAA module adopts a learnable interpolation strategy to learn pixel transform migration, thereby alleviating the feature-misalignment problem of feature aggregation at different scales. The module includes an attention mechanism that improves the decoder's ability to recover the important details. Using multiple MFAA modules, the semantic information of high-level features, and the spatial information of low-level features, this method aligns and aggregates the high- and low-level features to refine the semantic segmentation effect. The proposed network structure was validated on PASCAL VOC 2012. Using a ResNet-50 backbone network, the mean intersection-over-union reached 78.4% on the validation set. Experimentally, the proposed method achieved better evaluation indices than several mainstream segmentation methods and effectively improved the image segmentation effect.
    Zhaozhong Xu, Li Peng, Feifei Dai. Semantic Segmentation Method Based on Multiscale Feature Alignment and Aggregation[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(2): 0215004
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