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ENet: A Deep Neural Network Architecture for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation (arxiv.org)
2 points by pmalynin on Jun 9, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A slim network that labels every pixel in a camera image, built to run fast on phones and other small computers. It runs up to 18 times quicker than heavier models while matching or beating their accuracy.

Abstract

The ability to perform pixel-wise semantic segmentation in real-time is of paramount importance in mobile applications. Recent deep neural networks aimed at this task have the disadvantage of requiring a large number of floating point operations and have long run-times that hinder their usability. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network architecture named ENet (efficient neural network), created specifically for tasks requiring low latency operation. ENet is up to 18$\times$ faster, requires 75$\times$ less FLOPs, has 79$\times$ less parameters, and provides similar or better accuracy to existing models. We have tested it on CamVid, Cityscapes and SUN datasets and report on comparisons with existing state-of-the-art methods, and the trade-offs between accuracy and processing time of a network. We present performance measurements of the proposed architecture on embedded systems and suggest possible software improvements that could make ENet even faster.

Adam Paszke, Abhishek Chaurasia, Sangpil Kim, Eugenio Culurciello
arXiv:1606.02147 · cs.CV · submitted Jun 7, 2016
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