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DenseASPP for Semantic Segmentation in Street Scenes

1 Jun 2018CVPR 2018 6archive 2025-07-28

Maoke Yang, Kun Yu, Chi Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Kuiyuan Yang

Semantic image segmentation is a basic street scene understanding task in autonomous driving, where each pixel in a high resolution image is categorized into a set of semantic labels. Unlike other scenarios, objects in autonomous driving scene exhibit very large scale changes, which poses great challenges for high-level feature representation in a sense that multi-scale information must be correctly encoded. To remedy this problem, atrous convolutioncite{Deeplabv1} was introduced to generate features with larger receptive fields without sacrificing spatial resolution. Built upon atrous convolution, Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP)cite{Deeplabv2} was proposed to concatenate multiple atrous-convolved features using different dilation rates into a final feature representation. Although ASPP is able to generate multi-scale features, we argue the feature resolution in the scale-axis is not dense enough for the autonomous driving scenario. To this end, we propose Densely connected Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (DenseASPP), which connects a set of atrous convolutional layers in a dense way, such that it generates multi-scale features that not only cover a larger scale range, but also cover that scale range densely, without significantly increasing the model size. We evaluate DenseASPP on the street scene benchmark Cityscapescite{Cityscapes} and achieve state-of-the-art performance.

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Autonomous DrivingImage SegmentationScene UnderstandingSemantic Segmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semantic Segmentation Cityscapes test DenseASPP (DenseNet-161) Mean IoU (class) 80.6% #49 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation SkyScapes-Dense DenseASPP (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 24.73 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation Trans10K DenseASPP GFLOPs 36.20 #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation Trans10K DenseASPP mIoU 63.01% #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

1x1 ConvolutionASPPAverage PoolingBatch NormalizationBottleneck Residual BlockConvolutionDilated ConvolutionGlobal Average PoolingKaiming InitializationMax PoolingReLUResidual BlockResidual ConnectionSpatial Pyramid Pooling

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