Road surface semantic segmentation for autonomous driving

Although semantic segmentation is widely employed in autonomous driving, its performance in segmenting road surfaces falls short in complex traffic environments. This study proposes a frequency-based semantic segmentation with a transformer (FSSFormer) based on the sensitivity of semantic segmentati...

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Main Authors: Huaqi Zhao, Su Wang, Xiang Peng, Jeng-Shyang Pan, Rui Wang, Xiaomin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2024-09-01
Series:PeerJ Computer Science
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/cs-2250.pdf
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Summary:Although semantic segmentation is widely employed in autonomous driving, its performance in segmenting road surfaces falls short in complex traffic environments. This study proposes a frequency-based semantic segmentation with a transformer (FSSFormer) based on the sensitivity of semantic segmentation to frequency information. Specifically, we propose a weight-sharing factorized attention to select important frequency features that can improve the segmentation performance of overlapping targets. Moreover, to address boundary information loss, we used a cross-attention method combining spatial and frequency features to obtain further detailed pixel information. To improve the segmentation accuracy in complex road scenarios, we adopted a parallel-gated feedforward network segmentation method to encode the position information. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the mIoU of FSSFormer increased by 2% compared with existing segmentation methods on the Cityscapes dataset.
ISSN:2376-5992