Manipulating Neural Network Block for Robust Image Segmentation

Hyungjoon Kim, Hyeonwoo Kim, Seongkuk Cho, Eenjun Hwang

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    Abstract

    Convolutional neural networks have presented a new paradigm in the field of computer vision, but their fixed convolutional filter size causes long-range dependency loss problems. Also, because of the equal importance of all convolution filters, unnecessary information is included in the convolution result. These problems are more serious in image segmentation, where every pixel is labeled, as opposed to image classification or object recognition. In this paper, to alleviate these problems, we propose an attention-based neural network block that extracts robust features including channel and spatial information. The proposed block calculates the pixel relationship on a unit channel and then calculates the importance among channels. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed blocks, we constructed segmentation models by applying the proposed blocks to well-known network and measures their segmentation accuracy. We report some of the results.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2022
    EditorsHerwig Unger, Young-Kuk Kim, Eenjun Hwang, Sung-Bae Cho, Stephan Pareigis, Kyamakya Kyandoghere, Young-Guk Ha, Jinho Kim, Atsuyuki Morishima, Christian Wagner, Hyuk-Yoon Kwon, Yang-Sae Moon, Carson Leung
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages246-250
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781665421973
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022
    Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2022 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 2022 Jan 172022 Jan 20

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2022

    Conference

    Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2022
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityDaegu
    Period22/1/1722/1/20

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(No. NRF-2021R1A4A1031864)

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2022 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Attention mechanism
    • Convolutional Neural Networks
    • Feature extraction
    • Image segmentation

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    • Information Systems and Management
    • Health Informatics

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