MFNet: Towards real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles with multi-spectral scenes

This work addresses the semantic segmentation of images of street scenes for autonomous vehicles based on a new RGB-Thermal dataset, which is also introduced in this paper. An increasing interest in self-driving vehicles has brought the adaptation of semantic segmentation to self-driving systems. However, recent research relating to semantic segmentation is mainly based on RGB images acquired during times of poor visibility at night and under adverse weather conditions. Furthermore, most of these methods only focused on improving performance while ignoring time consumption. The aforementioned problems prompted us to propose a new convolutional neural network architecture for multi-spectral image segmentation…