Importance-Aware Image Segmentation-based Semantic Communication for Autonomous Driving

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Autori principali: Lv, Jie, Tong, Haonan, Pan, Qiang, Zhang, Zhilong, He, Xinxin, Luo, Tao, Yin, Changchuan
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author Lv, Jie
Tong, Haonan
Pan, Qiang
Zhang, Zhilong
He, Xinxin
Luo, Tao
Yin, Changchuan
author_facet Lv, Jie
Tong, Haonan
Pan, Qiang
Zhang, Zhilong
He, Xinxin
Luo, Tao
Yin, Changchuan
contents This article studies the problem of image segmentation-based semantic communication in autonomous driving. In real traffic scenes, detecting the key objects (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles) is more crucial than that of other objects to guarantee driving safety. Therefore, we propose a vehicular image segmentation-oriented semantic communication system, termed VIS-SemCom, where image segmentation features of important objects are transmitted to reduce transmission redundancy. First, to accurately extract image semantics, we develop a semantic codec based on Swin Transformer architecture, which expands the perceptual field thus improving the segmentation accuracy. Next, we propose a multi-scale semantic extraction scheme via assigning the number of Swin Transformer blocks for diverse resolution features, thus highlighting the important objects' accuracy. Furthermore, the importance-aware loss is invoked to emphasize the important objects, and an online hard sample mining (OHEM) strategy is proposed to handle small sample issues in the dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed VIS-SemCom can achieve a coding gain of nearly 6 dB with a 60% mean intersection over union (mIoU), reduce the transmitted data amount by up to 70% with a 60% mIoU, and improve the segmentation intersection over union (IoU) of important objects by 4%, compared to traditional transmission scheme.
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spellingShingle Importance-Aware Image Segmentation-based Semantic Communication for Autonomous Driving
Lv, Jie
Tong, Haonan
Pan, Qiang
Zhang, Zhilong
He, Xinxin
Luo, Tao
Yin, Changchuan
Networking and Internet Architecture
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This article studies the problem of image segmentation-based semantic communication in autonomous driving. In real traffic scenes, detecting the key objects (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles) is more crucial than that of other objects to guarantee driving safety. Therefore, we propose a vehicular image segmentation-oriented semantic communication system, termed VIS-SemCom, where image segmentation features of important objects are transmitted to reduce transmission redundancy. First, to accurately extract image semantics, we develop a semantic codec based on Swin Transformer architecture, which expands the perceptual field thus improving the segmentation accuracy. Next, we propose a multi-scale semantic extraction scheme via assigning the number of Swin Transformer blocks for diverse resolution features, thus highlighting the important objects' accuracy. Furthermore, the importance-aware loss is invoked to emphasize the important objects, and an online hard sample mining (OHEM) strategy is proposed to handle small sample issues in the dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed VIS-SemCom can achieve a coding gain of nearly 6 dB with a 60% mean intersection over union (mIoU), reduce the transmitted data amount by up to 70% with a 60% mIoU, and improve the segmentation intersection over union (IoU) of important objects by 4%, compared to traditional transmission scheme.
title Importance-Aware Image Segmentation-based Semantic Communication for Autonomous Driving
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10153