EAAI Journal 2026 Journal Article
Hybrid semantic segmentation with broad context and attention encoded network for urban street scenario
- Khawaja Iftekhar Rashid
- Abid Hussain
- Chenhui Yang
- Chenxi Huang
Real-time semantic segmentation helps intelligent transportation systems analyze dynamic urban environments with precision. So far, even advanced models struggle to capture fine details in live scenarios because they cannot adapt quickly to changing conditions and require heavy computational resources. In this study, we present a hybrid model for semantic segmentation incorporating generative semantic segmentation as a key notch. We present the Dynamic Context-Aware network during the latent prior learning process to capture contextual details. A maskige image is used to generate the segmentation mask for posterior distribution. The conditioning network bridges the gap between the mask's posterior distribution and the latent prior distribution of the training data. Finally, we present the attention-encoded decoder unit to further refine the feature map before the final segmentation map. Rigorous evaluations on established benchmarks confirm that our Hybrid Semantic Segmentation (HSS) method has achieved competitive performance compared to previous state-of-the-art alternatives in the semantic segmentation context. Additionally, our Hybrid Semantic Segmentation system sets a new benchmark in the more challenging real-world urban scenario.