Attribute-aware Semantic Segmentation of Road Scenes for Understanding Pedestrian Orientations
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sulistiyo, M.D.; Kawanishi, Y.; Deguchi, D.; Hirayama, T.; Ide, I.; Zheng, J.Y.; Murase, H.
- Source
- 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018 21st International Conference on. :2698-2703 Nov, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Robotics and Control Systems
Transportation
Semantics
Task analysis
Training
Image segmentation
Roads
Autonomous vehicles
Automobiles
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-0017
Semantic segmentation is an interesting task for many deep learning researchers for scene understanding. However, recognizing details about objects' attributes can be more informative and also helpful for a better scene understanding in intelligent vehicle use cases. This paper introduces a method for simultaneous semantic segmentation and pedestrian attributes recognition. A modified dataset built on top of the Cityscapes dataset is created by adding attribute classes corresponding to pedestrian orientation attributes. The proposed method extends the SegNet model and is trained by using both the original and the attribute-enriched datasets. Based on an experiment, the proposed attribute-aware semantic segmentation approach shows the ability to slightly improve the performance on the Cityscapes dataset, which is capable of expanding its classes in this case through additional data training.