QUALCOMM Incorporated
DISTANCE-BASED BOUNDARY AWARE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

Abstract:

A method applies a distance-based loss function to a boundary recognition model. The method classifies boundaries of an input with the boundary recognition model. The method also performs semantic segmentation based on the classifying of the boundaries, and outputting a segmentation map showing different classes of objects from the input, based on the semantic segmentation. The method may train an inverse transforming artificial neural network to predict a perspective transformation of an image so that the trained artificial neural network represents the distance-based loss function. The method may freeze weights of the inverse transforming artificial neural network, after training, to obtain the distance-based loss function. Training of the inverse transforming artificial neural network may include generating shifted, translated, and scaled versions of the image such that a ground truth comprises values corresponding to the amounts of shifting, translating, and scaling.