Parsing human image by fusing semantic and spatial features: A deep learning approach

Abstract

How to parse the human image to obtain the text label corresponding to the human body is a critical task for human-computer interaction. Although previous methods have significantly improved the parsing performance, the problem of parsing confusion and tiny target missing remains unresolved, which leads to errors and incomplete inference accordingly. Targeting at these drawbacks, we fuse semantic and spatial features to mine the human body information based on the Dual Pyramid Unit convolutional neural network, named as DPUNet. DPUNet is composed of Context Pyramid Unit (CPU) and Spatial Pyramid Unit (SPU). Firstly, we design the CPU to aggregate the local to global semantic information, which exports the semantic feature for eliminating the semantic confusion. To capture the tiny targets for preventing the details from missing, the SPU is proposed to incorporate the multi-scale spatial information and output the spatial feature. Finally, the features of two complementary units are fused for accurate and complete human parsing results. Our approach achieves more excellent performance than the state-of-the-art methods on single human and multiple human parsing datasets. Meanwhile, the proposed framework is efficient with a fast speed of 41.2fps.