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The framework employs MobileOne-S0 as the lightweight backbone for feature extraction, integrates Simple, Parameter-Free Attention Module (SimAM) into deep feature layers, replaces global average pooling in the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module with strip pooling, and adopts a content-guided attention (CGA)-based mixup fusion scheme to effectively combine high-level and low-level features while minimizing parameter redundancy. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 71.18% on the DUT-USEG dataset, with parameters and computational complexity reduced to 6.628 M and 39.612 G FLOPs, respectively. 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