Guodong Sun

Yang Zhang, Chenyun Xiong, Junjie Liu et al.

Efficient RGB-D semantic segmentation has received considerable attention in mobile robots, which plays a vital role in analyzing and recognizing environmental information. According to previous studies, depth information can provide corresponding geometric relationships for objects and scenes, but actual depth data usually exist as noise. To avoid unfavorable effects on segmentation accuracy and computation, it is necessary to design an efficient framework to leverage cross-modal correlations and complementary cues. In this paper, we propose an efficient lightweight encoder-decoder network that reduces the computational parameters and guarantees the robustness of the algorithm. Working with channel and spatial fusion attention modules, our network effectively captures multi-level RGB-D features. A globally guided local affinity context module is proposed to obtain sufficient high-level context information. The decoder utilizes a lightweight residual unit that combines short- and long-distance information with a few redundant computations. Experimental results on NYUv2, SUN RGB-D, and Cityscapes datasets show that our method achieves a better trade-off among segmentation accuracy, inference time, and parameters than the state-of-the-art methods. The source code will be at https://github.com/MVME-HBUT/SGACNet

Guodong Sun, Delong Huang, Yuting Peng et al.

Image segmentation methods have been utilized to determine the particle size distribution of crushed ores. Due to the complex working environment, high-powered computing equipment is difficult to deploy. At the same time, the ore distribution is stacked, and it is difficult to identify the complete features. To address this issue, an effective box-supervised technique with texture features is provided for ore image segmentation that can identify complete and independent ores. Firstly, a ghost feature pyramid network (Ghost-FPN) is proposed to process the features obtained from the backbone to reduce redundant semantic information and computation generated by complex networks. Then, an optimized detection head is proposed to obtain the feature to maintain accuracy. Finally, Lab color space (Lab) and local binary patterns (LBP) texture features are combined to form a fusion feature similarity-based loss function to improve accuracy while incurring no loss. Experiments on MS COCO have shown that the proposed fusion features are also worth studying on other types of datasets. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, which achieves over 50 frames per second with a small model size of 21.6 MB. Meanwhile, the method maintains a high level of accuracy compared with the state-of-the-art approaches on ore image dataset. The source code is available at \url{https://github.com/MVME-HBUT/OREINST}.

Yang Zhang, Yang Zhou, Huilin Pan et al.

Fault detection for key components in the braking system of freight trains is critical for ensuring railway transportation safety. Despite the frequently employed methods based on deep learning, these fault detectors are highly reliant on hardware resources and are complex to implement. In addition, no train fault detectors consider the drop in accuracy induced by scale variation of fault parts. This paper proposes a lightweight anchor-free framework to solve the above problems. Specifically, to reduce the amount of computation and model size, we introduce a lightweight backbone and adopt an anchor-free method for localization and regression. To improve detection accuracy for multi-scale parts, we design a feature pyramid network to generate rectangular layers of different sizes to map parts with similar aspect ratios. Experiments on four fault datasets show that our framework achieves 98.44% accuracy while the model size is only 22.5 MB, outperforming state-of-the-art detectors.

Yang Zhang, Huilin Pan, Yang Zhou et al.

Efficient visual fault detection of freight trains is a critical part of ensuring the safe operation of railways under the restricted hardware environment. Although deep learning-based approaches have excelled in object detection, the efficiency of freight train fault detection is still insufficient to apply in real-world engineering. This paper proposes a heterogeneous self-distillation framework to ensure detection accuracy and speed while satisfying low resource requirements. The privileged information in the output feature knowledge can be transferred from the teacher to the student model through distillation to boost performance. We first adopt a lightweight backbone to extract features and generate a new heterogeneous knowledge neck. Such neck models positional information and long-range dependencies among channels through parallel encoding to optimize feature extraction capabilities. Then, we utilize the general distribution to obtain more credible and accurate bounding box estimates. Finally, we employ a novel loss function that makes the network easily concentrate on values near the label to improve learning efficiency. Experiments on four fault datasets reveal that our framework can achieve over 37 frames per second and maintain the highest accuracy in comparison with traditional distillation approaches. Moreover, compared to state-of-the-art methods, our framework demonstrates more competitive performance with lower memory usage and the smallest model size.

Yang Zhang, Le Cheng, Yuting Peng et al.

For the ore particle size detection, obtaining a sizable amount of high-quality ore labeled data is time-consuming and expensive. General object detection methods often suffer from severe over-fitting with scarce labeled data. Despite their ability to eliminate over-fitting, existing few-shot object detectors encounter drawbacks such as slow detection speed and high memory requirements, making them difficult to implement in a real-world deployment scenario. To this end, we propose a lightweight and effective few-shot detector to achieve competitive performance with general object detection with only a few samples for ore images. First, the proposed support feature mining block characterizes the importance of location information in support features. Next, the relationship guidance block makes full use of support features to guide the generation of accurate candidate proposals. Finally, the dual-scale semantic aggregation module retrieves detailed features at different resolutions to contribute with the prediction process. Experimental results show that our method consistently exceeds the few-shot detectors with an excellent performance gap on all metrics. Moreover, our method achieves the smallest model size of 19MB as well as being competitive at 50 FPS detection speed compared with general object detectors. The source code is available at https://github.com/MVME-HBUT/Faster-OreFSDet.

Yang Zhang, Yang Yang, Chenyun Xiong et al.

Encoder-decoder models have been widely used in RGBD semantic segmentation, and most of them are designed via a two-stream network. In general, jointly reasoning the color and geometric information from RGBD is beneficial for semantic segmentation. However, most existing approaches fail to comprehensively utilize multimodal information in both the encoder and decoder. In this paper, we propose a novel attention-based dual supervised decoder for RGBD semantic segmentation. In the encoder, we design a simple yet effective attention-based multimodal fusion module to extract and fuse deeply multi-level paired complementary information. To learn more robust deep representations and rich multi-modal information, we introduce a dual-branch decoder to effectively leverage the correlations and complementary cues of different tasks. Extensive experiments on NYUDv2 and SUN-RGBD datasets demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance against the state-of-the-art methods.