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Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying attention mechanisms in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to solve computer vision tasks. Most of these methods learn to explicitly identify and highlight relevant parts of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Kateryna Chumachenko , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved significant performance improvement. However, most CNN-based methods mainly focus on feed-forward architecture design and neglect to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Huapeng Wu , Jie Gui , Jun Zhang , James T. Kwok , Zhihui Wei

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

We propose a novel technique to incorporate attention within convolutional neural networks using feature maps generated by a separate convolutional autoencoder. Our attention architecture is well suited for incorporation with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Chaitanya Kaul , Suresh Manandhar , Nick Pears

Learning to capture long-range relations is fundamental to image/video recognition. Existing CNN models generally rely on increasing depth to model such relations which is highly inefficient. In this work, we propose the "double attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yunpeng Chen , Yannis Kalantidis , Jianshu Li , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

The Localization of the target object for data retrieval is a key issue in the Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems (ICTS). However, due to lack of intelligence in the traditional transportation system, it can take tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Sijia Chen , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is an important but challenging task due to high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances caused by deformation, occlusion, illumination, etc. An attention convolutional binary neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruyi Ji , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang , Dawei Du , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Feiyue Huang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) were originally inspired by principles of biological vision, have evolved into best current computational models of object recognition, and consequently indicate strong architectural and functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Leonard E. van Dyck , Sebastian J. Denzler , Walter R. Gruber

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the cutting edge model for supervised machine learning in computer vision. In recent years CNNs have outperformed traditional approaches in many computer vision tasks such as object detection, image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Nitzan Guberman

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have facilitated remarkable success in recognizing various food items and agricultural stress. A decent performance boost has been witnessed in solving the agro-food challenges by mining and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Asish Bera , Ondrej Krejcar , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Attention mechanism has demonstrated great potential in fine-grained visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a counterfactual attention learning method to learn more effective attention based on causal inference. Unlike most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Guangyi Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Priyanka Mudgal , Feng Liu

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

The spreading of attention has been proposed as a mechanism for how humans group features to segment objects. However, such a mechanism has not yet been implemented and tested in naturalistic images. Here, we leverage the feature maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hossein Adeli , Seoyoung Ahn , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Gregory Zelinsky

Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengcheng Sun , Chenhao Li , Xiang Lin , Tianji Zheng , Fanrong Meng , Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent energy efficiency. Owing to the inherent sparsity in spike generation within SNNs, the in-depth analysis and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Kairong Yu , Tianqing Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Qi Xu

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

Understanding why neural networks make certain decisions is pivotal for their use in safety-critical applications. Feature-Guided Analysis (FGA) extracts slices of neural networks relevant to their tasks. Existing feature-guided approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Federico Formica , Stefano Gregis , Aurora Francesca Zanenga , Andrea Rota , Mark Lawford , Claudio Menghi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. However, this achievement is preceded by extreme manual annotation in order to perform either training from scratch or fine-tuning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Filip Radenović , Giorgos Tolias , Ondřej Chum

Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Ming Zeng , Tong Yu , Xiao Wang , Le T. Nguyen , Ole J. Mengshoel , Ian Lane