Graph-FCN for Image Semantic Segmentation

Yi Lu, Yaran Chen*, Dongbin Zhao, Jianxin Chen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Semantic segmentation with deep learning has achieved great progress in classifying the pixels in the image. However, the local location information is usually ignored in the high-level feature extraction by the deep learning, which is important for image semantic segmentation. To avoid this problem, we propose a graph model initialized by a fully convolutional network (FCN) named Graph-FCN for image semantic segmentation. Firstly, the image grid data is extended to graph structure data by a convolutional network, which transforms the semantic segmentation problem into a graph node classification problem. Then we apply graph convolutional network to solve this graph node classification problem. As far as we know, it is the first time that we apply the graph convolutional network in image semantic segmentation. Our method achieves competitive performance in mean intersection over union (mIOU) on the VOC dataset (about 1.34% improvement), compared to the original FCN model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2019 - 16th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2019, Proceedings
EditorsHuchuan Lu, Huajin Tang, Zhanshan Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages97-105
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030227951
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event16th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2019 - Moscow, Russian Federation
Duration: 10 Jul 201912 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11554 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2019
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
Period10/07/1912/07/19

Keywords

  • Graph convolutional network
  • Graph neural network
  • Semantic segmentation

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