PCANet: Pyramid convolutional attention network for semantic segmentation
Haiwei Sang, Qiuhao Zhou, Yong Zhao
Abstract
Pyramid Convolutional Attention Network is proposed to efficiently capture long-range dependency and fuse features from different levels for benefitting semantic segmentation problems. In this paper, we focus on how to extract more representative features for segmentation object recognition and design a decoder to recover details in a more efficient way. Inspired by atrous sampling and attention mechanism, we propose Pyramid Atrous Attention module to capture long-range dependency for learning richer contextual features. We also find that features of different levels have diverse representation so we design Convolutional Attention Refinement module to provide global context for low-level features and local details for high-level features. By combining with these two efficient module, we construct our Pyramid Convolutional Attention Network (PCANet), which achieves state-of-the-art results on Pascal VOC 2012 and Cityscapes benchmark.