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Adaptive Context Network for Scene Parsing

5 Nov 2019ICCV 2019 10arXiv:1911.01664archive 2025-07-28

Jun Fu, Jing Liu, Yuhang Wang, Yong Li, Yongjun Bao, Jinhui Tang, Hanqing Lu

Recent works attempt to improve scene parsing performance by exploring different levels of contexts, and typically train a well-designed convolutional network to exploit useful contexts across all pixels equally. However, in this paper, we find that the context demands are varying from different pixels or regions in each image. Based on this observation, we propose an Adaptive Context Network (ACNet) to capture the pixel-aware contexts by a competitive fusion of global context and local context according to different per-pixel demands. Specifically, when given a pixel, the global context demand is measured by the similarity between the global feature and its local feature, whose reverse value can be used to measure the local context demand. We model the two demand measurements by the proposed global context module and local context module, respectively, to generate adaptive contextual features. Furthermore, we import multiple such modules to build several adaptive context blocks in different levels of network to obtain a coarse-to-fine result. Finally, comprehensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ACNet, and new state-of-the-arts performances are achieved on all four public datasets, i.e. Cityscapes, ADE20K, PASCAL Context, and COCO Stuff.

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Scene ParsingSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semantic Segmentation ADE20K ACNet (ResNet-101) Validation mIoU 45.90 #184 of 235 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation ADE20K ACNet (ResNet-101) Validation mIoU 45.90 #185 of 235 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation ADE20K val ACNet (ResNet-101) mIoU 45.90 #77 of 95 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation ADE20K val ACNet(ResNet-101) mIoU 45.90 #78 of 95 Archive leaderboard report

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