MAVNet: An effective semantic segmentation micro-network for MAV-based tasks


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Nguyen T., Shivakumar S. S., Miller I. D., Keller J., Lee E. S., Zhou A., ...Daha Fazla

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, cilt.4, sa.4, ss.3908-3915, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

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Real-time semantic image segmentation on platforms subject to size, weight, and power constraints is a key area of interest for air surveillance and inspection. In this letter, we propose MAVNet: a small, light-weight, deep neural network for real-time semantic segmentation on micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). MAVNet, inspired by ERFNet [E. Romera, J. M. lvarez, L. M. Bergasa, and R. Arroyo, "ErfNet: Efficient residual factorized convnet for real-time semantic segmentation," IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 263-272, Jan. 2018.], features 400 times fewer parameters and achieves comparable performancewith somereference models in empirical experiments. Additionally,we provide two novel datasets that represent challenges in semantic segmentation for real-timeMAVtracking and infrastructure inspection tasks and verify MAVNet on these datasets. Our algorithm and datasets are made publicly available.