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We present Attention Zoom, a modular and model-agnostic spatial attention mechanism designed to improve feature extraction in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike traditional attention approaches that require architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Daniel DeAlcala , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have enabled significant improvements in pedestrian detection owing to the strong representation ability of the CNN features. Recently, aggregating features from multiple layers of a CNN has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Tianrui Liu , Mohamed Elmikaty , Tania Stathaki

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Semantic segmentation in high resolution remote sensing images is a fundamental and challenging task. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as fully convolutional network (FCN) and SegNet, have shown outstanding performance in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Semantic segmentation requires a detailed labeling of image pixels by object category. Information derived from local image patches is necessary to describe the detailed shape of individual objects. However, this information is ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Hexiang Hu , Zhiwei Deng , Guang-tong Zhou , Fei Sha , Greg Mori

Current feature matching methods focus on point-level matching, pursuing better representation learning of individual features, but lacking further understanding of the scene. This results in significant performance degradation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaoyong Lu , Yaping Yan , Tong Wei , Songlin Du

We present a two-module approach to semantic segmentation that incorporates Convolutional Networks (CNNs) and Graphical Models. Graphical models are used to generate a small (5-30) set of diverse segmentations proposals, such that this set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Michael Cogswell , Xiao Lin , Senthil Purushwalkam , Dhruv Batra

Deep convolutional networks have achieved the state-of-the-art for semantic image segmentation tasks. However, training these networks requires access to densely labeled images, which are known to be very expensive to obtain. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Saliency Prediction aims to predict the attention distribution of human eyes given an RGB image. Most of the recent state-of-the-art methods are based on deep image feature representations from traditional CNNs. However, the traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Shuo Zhang

Fine-grained image recognition is very challenging due to the difficulty of capturing both semantic global features and discriminative local features. Meanwhile, these two features are not easy to be integrated, which are even conflicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Shaokang Yang , Shuai Liu , Cheng Yang , Changhu Wang

Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) has been widely used for image recognition with great success. However, there are a number of limitations of the current CNN based image recognition paradigm. First, the receptive field of CNN is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Dong-Qing Zhang

Multi-organ segmentation is one of most successful applications of deep learning in medical image analysis. Deep convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have shown great promise in achieving clinically applicable image segmentation performance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Kun Han , Shanlin Sun , Narisu Bai , Xuming Chen , Huang Qian , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

In computer vision tasks, the ability to focus on relevant regions within an image is crucial for improving model performance, particularly when key features are small, subtle, or spatially dispersed. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

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Underwater image enhancement has become an attractive topic as a significant technology in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. However, the limited number of datasets and imperfect hand-crafted ground truth weaken its robustness to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Di Wang , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

Compressed sensing MRI is a classic inverse problem in the field of computational imaging, accelerating the MR imaging by measuring less k-space data. The deep neural network models provide the stronger representation ability and faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Zhiwen Fan , Liyan Sun , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Congbo Cai , John Paisley

We present a technique for adding global context to deep convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Wei Liu , Andrew Rabinovich , Alexander C. Berg

Spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images given its capability to model long-range dependencies. Many methods adopting spatial attention mechanism aggregate contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xiaowen Ma , Rui Che , Tingfeng Hong , Mengting Ma , Ziyan Zhao , Tian Feng , Wei Zhang

Recently, it has attracted more and more attentions to fuse multi-scale features for semantic image segmentation. Various works were proposed to employ progressive local or global fusion, but the feature fusions are not rich enough for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fangjian Lin , Tianyi Wu , Sitong Wu , Shengwei Tian , Guodong Guo

Fine-grained classification is challenging because categories can only be discriminated by subtle and local differences. Variances in the pose, scale or rotation usually make the problem more difficult. Most fine-grained classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tianjun Xiao , Yichong Xu , Kuiyuan Yang , Jiaxing Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Zheng Zhang