Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited

Pingping Zhang

Lu Wang

Huchuan Lu

Shangping Liu

In a convolutional neural network (CNN) using an encoder-decoder structure for image segmentation, a multi-scale context aggregation module receives an encoded final-stage feature map from the encoder, and sequentially aggregates multi-scale contexts of this feature map from a global scale to a local scale to strengthen semantic relationships of contexts of different scales to improve segmentation accuracy. The multi-scale contexts are obtained by computing atrous convolution on the feature map for different dilation rates. To reduce computation, a channel-wise feature selection (CFS) module is used in the decoder to merge two input feature maps. Each feature map is processed by a global pooling layer followed by a fully connected layer or a 1&#xd7;1 convolutional layer to select channels of high activation. By subsequent channel-wise multiplication and elementwise summation, only channels with high activation in both feature maps are preserved and enhanced in the merged feature map.

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Pingping Zhang