An Efficient Hybrid Linear Clustering Superpixel Decomposition Framework for Traffic Scene Semantic Segmentation

Dan Zhong, Tiehu Li, Yuxuan Dong

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Abstract

Superpixel decomposition could reconstruct an image through meaningful fragments to extract regional features, thus boosting the performance of advanced computer vision tasks. To further optimize the computational efficiency as well as segmentation quality, a novel framework is proposed to generate superpixels from the perspective of hybridizing two existing linear clustering frameworks. Instead of conventional grid sampling seeds for region clustering, a fast convergence strategy is first introduced to center the final superpixel clusters, which is based on an accelerated convergence strategy. Superpixels are then generated from a center-fixed online average clustering, which adopts region growing to label all pixels in an efficient one-pass manner. The experiments verify that the integration of this two-step implementation could generate a synergistic effect and that it becomes more well-rounded than each single method. Compared with other state-of-the-art superpixel algorithms, the proposed framework achieves a comparable overall performance in terms of segmentation accuracy, spatial compactness and running efficiency; moreover, an application on image segmentation verifies its facilitation for traffic scene analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1002
JournalSensors
Volume23
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2023

Keywords

  • linear clustering
  • online averaging
  • superpixel decomposition
  • two-stage framework

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