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For an unmanned mobile platform, quickly and accurately obtaining environmental information is a basic requirement for its subsequent visual tasks. Based on this, a unique convolution module called Multi-Scale Depthwise Separable Convolution module is proposed for real-time semantic segmentation. This module mainly consists of concatenation pointwise convolution and multi-scale depthwise convolution. Not only does the concatenation pointwise convolution change the number of channels, but it also combines the spatial features from the multi-scale depthwise convolution operations to produce additional features. The Multi-Scale Depthwise Separable Convolution module can strengthen the non-linear relationship between input and output. Specifically, the multi-scale depthwise convolution module extracts multi-scale spatial features while remaining lightweight. This fully uses multi-scale information to describe objects despite their different sizes. Here, Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU), parameters, and inference speed were used to describe the performance of the proposed network. On the Camvid, KITTI, and Cityscapes datasets, the proposed algorithm compromised between accuracy and memory in comparison to widely used and cutting-edge algorithms. 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