IEEE Access • Vol 9
Parallel Fully Convolutional Network for Semantic Segmentation
December 2020 • Jian Ji, Xiaocong Lu, Luo Mai, Minghui Yin, Qiguang Miao, Xiangzeng Liu
Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) have been widely applied for dense classification tasks such as semantic segmentation. As a large number of works based on FCNs are proposed, various semantic segmentation models have been improved significantly. However, duplicated upsampling and deconvolution operations in the FCNs will lead to information loss in semantic segmentation tasks and to problems such as ignoring the relationship between pixels and pixels and the lack of spatial consistency. In this study, we propos…