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DS-PASS: Detail-Sensitive Panoramic Annular Semantic Segmentation through SwaftNet for Surrounding Sensing

17 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.07721archive 2025-07-28

Kailun Yang, Xinxin Hu, Hao Chen, Kaite Xiang, Kaiwei Wang, Rainer Stiefelhagen

Semantically interpreting the traffic scene is crucial for autonomous transportation and robotics systems. However, state-of-the-art semantic segmentation pipelines are dominantly designed to work with pinhole cameras and train with narrow Field-of-View (FoV) images. In this sense, the perception capacity is severely limited to offer higher-level confidence for upstream navigation tasks. In this paper, we propose a network adaptation framework to achieve Panoramic Annular Semantic Segmentation (PASS), which allows to re-use conventional pinhole-view image datasets, enabling modern segmentation networks to comfortably adapt to panoramic images. Specifically, we adapt our proposed SwaftNet to enhance the sensitivity to details by implementing attention-based lateral connections between the detail-critical encoder layers and the context-critical decoder layers. We benchmark the performance of efficient segmenters on panoramic segmentation with our extended PASS dataset, demonstrating that the proposed real-time SwaftNet outperforms state-of-the-art efficient networks. Furthermore, we assess real-world performance when deploying the Detail-Sensitive PASS (DS-PASS) system on a mobile robot and an instrumented vehicle, as well as the benefit of panoramic semantics for visual odometry, showing the robustness and potential to support diverse navigational applications.

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Semantic Segmentation Cityscapes val SwaftNet (ResNet-18) mIoU 72.1% #85 of 99 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation DensePASS PASS mIoU 23.66% #35 of 36 Archive leaderboard report

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