Full-Resolution Residual Networks for Semantic Segmentation in Street Scenes

Understand

Semantic image segmentation is an essential component of modern autonomous driving systems, as an accurate understanding of the surrounding scene is crucial to navigation and action planning.

• Current state-of-the-art approaches in semantic image segmentation rely on pre-trained networks that were initially developed for classifying images as a whole.
• While these networks exhibit outstanding recognition performance (i.e., what is visible?), they lack localization accuracy (i.e., where precisely is something located?).
• Therefore, additional processing steps have to be performed in order to obtain pixel-accurate segmentation masks at the full image resolution.