Traffic Scene Semantic Segmentation by Using Several Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract

Nowadays, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has become one of the most popular subjects of scientific research. ITS provides innovative services to transport and traffic monitoring like vehicle segmentation and classification. Image understanding and object semantic segmentation in traffic scenes is a very important topic in the trend of autonomous driving issues, like autonomous vehicles and robotics. Actually, Deep Convolution Neural Network (CNN) architectures have given very good results and good performance in computer vision tasks such as classification, object detection, and segmentation. In this scope, we can distinguish two modes of CNN training, the pre-trained model and the training from scratch. In fact, deep neural network training without pre-trained weights and little data requires more training iterations. Besides, deeper models are more efficient than their shallow counterparts for the task of semantic segmentation. In this paper, we will make a comparative study between many deep CNNs models that can train the CNN model from scratch on small datasets, in addition, we will use data augmentation techniques. Extensive experiments were performed on the MiniCity urban scene dataset to prove the effectiveness of the used neural networks while obtaining promising results.