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Efficient Semantic Understanding from Digital Foveation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Dense semantic segmentation allocates computational resources uniformly across the entire image, regardless of scene complexity or task relevance. Inspired by biological vision, we investigate whether semantic understanding can be achieved more efficiently through digital foveated perception. We introduce a lightweight active-vision pipeline that combines saliency-driven fixation selection, high-resolution foveal observations, low-resolution contextual information, semantic accumulation, and adaptive computation. Beyond conventional dense prediction metrics, we use object-level evaluation to m

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