Enhanced Context Learning with Transformer for Human Parsing

Human parsing is a fine-grained human semantic segmentation task in the field of computer vision. Due to the challenges of occlusion, diverse poses and a similar appearance of different body parts and clothing, human parsing requires more attention to learn context information. Based on this observation, we enhance the learning of global and local information to obtain more accurate human parsing results. In this paper, we introduce a Global Transformer Module (GTM) via a self-attention mechanism to capture long-range dependencies for effectively extracting context information. Moreover, we design a Detailed Feature Enhancement (DFE) architecture to exploit spatial semantics for small targets. The low-level visual features from CNN intermediate layers are enhanced by using channel and spatial attention. In addition, we adopt an edge detection module to refine the prediction. We conducted extensive experiments on three datasets (i.e., LIP, ATR, and Fashion Clothing) to show the effectiveness of our method, which achieves 54.55% mIoU on the LIP dataset, 80.26% on the average F-1 score on the ATR dataset and 55.19% on the average F-1 score on the Fashion Clothing dataset.