Security X-ray image segmentation based on dense high-resolution parallel networks
To tackle the technical challenges posed by the diverse scale,disorderly arrangement,and overlapping occlusion of prohibited items in X-ray image detection for security checks,by improving the high-resolution network(HRNet)model and incorporating a de-occlusion unit,a novel multi-scale feature fusion network structure was proposed for prohibited item semantic segmentation in security X-ray images.In the encoding stage,leveraging HRNet's multi-branch parallel network structure,a dense connection was introduced within a single branch to enhance the fusion of information from deep and shallow layers,extracting multi-scale features to address the diverse scale of prohibited items in security X-ray images.Within the overall network architecture,an attention-based de-occlusion unit was integrated to enhance the model's edge perception,effectively suppressing the impact of overlapping occlusion on segmentation accuracy in security X-ray images.Experimental validation on the PIDray security image dataset across Easy,Hard and Hidden validation subsets demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.The results indicate mean intersection over union(MIoU)values of 74.69%,69.92%and 56.77%,respectively.Compared with the original HRNet model,this represents an improvement of 2.03,1.62 and 4.13 percentage points,achieving an overall MIoU enhancement by approximately 2.59 percentage points.