BiSeNet-oriented context attention model for image semantic segmentation

Abstract

When the traditional semantic segmentation model is adopted, the different feature importance of feature maps is ignored in the feature extraction stage, which results in the detail loss, and affects the segmentation effect. In this paper, we propose a BiSeNet-oriented context attention model for image semantic segmentation. In the BiSeNet, the spatial path is utilized to extract more low-level features to solve the problem of information loss in deep network layers. Context attention mechanism is used to mine high-level implied semantic features of images. Meanwhile, the focus loss is used as the loss function to improve the final segmentation effect by reducing the internal weighting. Finally, we conduct experiments on open data sets, and the results show that pixel accuracy, average pixel accuracy, and average Intersection-over-Union are greatly improved compared with other state-of-theart semantic segmentation models. It effectively improves the accuracy of feature extraction, reduces the loss of feature details, and improves the final segmentation effect.