ReSeg: A Recurrent Neural Network-Based Model for Semantic Segmentation

Francesco Visin, Adriana Romero, Kyunghyun Cho, Matteo Matteucci, Marco Ciccone, Kyle Kastner, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

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Abstract

We propose a structured prediction architecture, which exploits the local generic features extracted by Convolutional Neural Networks and the capacity of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to retrieve distant dependencies. The proposed architecture, called ReSeg, is based on the recently introduced ReNet model for image classification. We modify and extend it to perform the more challenging task of semantic segmentation. Each ReNet layer is composed of four RNN that sweep the image horizontally and vertically in both directions, encoding patches or activations, and providing relevant global information. Moreover, ReNet layers are stacked on top of pre-trained convolutional layers, benefiting from generic local features. Upsampling layers follow ReNet layers to recover the original image resolution in the final predictions. The proposed ReSeg architecture is efficient, flexible and suitable for a variety of semantic segmentation tasks. We evaluate ReSeg on several widely-used semantic segmentation datasets: Weizmann Horse, Oxford Flower, and CamVid, achieving stateof-the-art performance. Results show that ReSeg can act as a suitable architecture for semantic segmentation tasks, and may have further applications in other structured prediction problems. The source code and model hyperparameters are available on https://github.com/fvisin/reseg.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2016
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages426-433
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781467388504
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 16 2016
Event29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2016 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Jun 26 2016Jul 1 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
ISSN (Print)2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

Other

Other29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period6/26/167/1/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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