Semantic segmentation technique plays a crucial role in Internet of Things applications, such as industrial robotics and self-driving. Recently deep learning approaches have boosted semantic segmentation accuracy greatly. However, their comprehensive performance in terms of accuracy and efficiency is still far from satisfactory. We observe that (1) accuracy-oriented methods rely on numerous convolution layers and sophisticated architectures, which result in heavy computational complexity and usually take a long time for inference; (2) efficiency-oriented methods fail to capture the multiscale context information for discriminative representations during the feature fusion process, thus leading to suboptimal performance. Previous semantic segmentation approaches fail to address these two challenges simultaneously. To tackle the dilemma of precise segmentation and efficient inference, we propose a novel lightweight Multiscale Information Fusion Network (MIFNet). Specifically, the proposed MIFNet mainly consists of two core components, that is, Pyramid Refinement Connection Module (PRCM) and Lightweight Information Fusion Module (LIFM). The PRCM exploits skip learning to establish dependency between different stages. Meanwhile, the pyramid attention mechanism (PAM) in PRCM, which adjusts the weight of hybrid pyramid attention vector to refine spatial features of low-level, is developed to alleviate the semantic gap. Moreover, the LIFM is designed to detect objects at multiple scales from the global-local perspective. In LIFM, the proposed multiscale dense concatenation (MDC) adopts various dilated convolution to extract multiscale local context information. Extensive experimental results on benchmarks data sets demonstrate the significantly better performance of the proposed MIFNet compared with most existing state-of-the-art methods.

This erratum replaces the corresponding author Liang Tiancai with Ai Shan. In the article cited above, the authors wish to change the corresponding author from Liang Tiancai to Ai Shan as shown below.1 Shan Ai School of Computer Science and Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Hainan, China Email address: [email protected] ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1784-0220

When making regression predictions, the traditional random forest (RF) algorithm can only make predictions within the training set, which can easily lead to overfitting when modeling data have some specific noise. To solve the problem of over-fitting, an improved RF method is proposed in this paper for wind pressure prediction. With the aim to verify the prediction performance of the improved RF algorithm, this paper predicts the wind pressure coefficients of a high-rise building model without wind pressure measurement points. The results show that the improved RF can achieve good results in predicting the mean and fluctuating wind pressure coefficients of high-rise buildings, and its relative error for each measurement point is basically controlled at 5%, which is acceptable in engineering terms. Further applications show that this improved RF can be used for wind pressure distribution prediction in other large-span building type wind tunnel tests.