AURASeg: Attention-Guided Upsampling with Residual-Assisted Boundary Refinement for Drivable-Area Segmentation

arXiv:2510.21536v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Free-space segmentation is essential for autonomous robots to identify drivable regions and navigate safely across indoor, outdoor, and road-scene environments. However, conventional encoder-decoder models often recover coarse region masks while losing the fine spatial information needed to localize drivable-area boundaries accurately. We propose Attention-Guided Upsampling with Residual-Assisted Boundary Refinement (AURASeg), a segmentation framework designed to preserve region-level accuracy while improving boundary quality. Built on a ResNet-18 encoder, AURASeg introduces an Attention Progressive Upsampling Decoder (APUD) that progressively combines semantic context with high-resolution spatial detail, together with a Residual Boundary Refinement Module (RBRM) that explicitly refines contour-sensitive features before final prediction. We evaluate AURASeg across indoor simulation, ground-robot imagery, and road-driving benchmarks. The results show that our proposed model remains competitive with established segmentation models on region-level metrics while providing particularly strong boundary localization, including in comparison with boundary-focused methods. Detailed ablations further demonstrate the role of the proposed decoding and refinement modules.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-08-26