Harnessing Light Field Angular Cues and Spatial Geometries for Semantic Segmentation

4D light field imaging captures rich spatial-angular information, providing essential geometric cues for semantic segmentation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a novel backbone network called the Light Field Extraction Interaction Network (LFEI-Net). LFEI-Net excels in extracting global structures and multi-scale spatial-angular features, capturing feature dependencies through channel modeling and diverse feature interactions. Unlike traditional methods that depend on pyramid and dilated feature extraction, LFEI-Net pioneers an efficient method by integrating large-scale horizontal depth-wise convolution (HDWC) and vertical depth-wise convolution (VDWC) with interactive operations for comprehensive spatial multi-scale feature extraction. Furthermore, we present the Multi-Angular Modeling (MAM) module, which effectively captures scene angle variations from multiple perspectives and precisely delineates object boundaries, thereby improving model adaptability. Our experimental evaluations on two datasets demonstrate that LFEI-Net significantly outperforms state-ofthe-art (SOTA) 2D and 4D light field semantic segmentation methods, achieving mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 83.72% and 86.88%, respectively.