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Multi-encoder models are a broad family of context-aware neural machine translation systems that aim to improve translation quality by encoding document-level contextual information alongside the current sentence. The context encoding is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lorenzo Lupo , Marco Dinarelli , Laurent Besacier

Image inpainting has earned substantial progress, owing to the encoder-and-decoder pipeline, which is benefited from the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with convolutional downsampling to inpaint the masked regions semantically from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Biao Qian , Yong Rui , Meng Wang

This paper introduces an unsupervised framework to extract semantically rich features for video representation. Inspired by how the human visual system groups objects based on motion cues, we propose a deep convolutional neural network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Xunyu Lin , Victor Campos , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Context plays an important role in human language understanding, thus it may also be useful for machines learning vector representations of language. In this paper, we explore an asymmetric encoder-decoder structure for unsupervised…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Shuai Tang , Hailin Jin , Chen Fang , Zhaowen Wang , Virginia R. de Sa

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

Context is essential for semantic segmentation. Due to the diverse shapes of objects and their complex layout in various scene images, the spatial scales and shapes of contexts for different objects have very large variation. It is thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang , Bing Shuai , Ai Qun Liu , Gang Wang

Visual understanding is inherently contextual -- what we focus on in an image depends on the task at hand. For instance, given an image of a person holding a bouquet of flowers, we may focus on either the person such as their clothing, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Fartash Faghri , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Chun-Liang Li , Ranjay Krishna , Oncel Tuzel , Hadi Pouransari

Neural Machine Translation model is a sequence-to-sequence converter based on neural networks. Existing models use recurrent neural networks to construct both the encoder and decoder modules. In alternative research, the recurrent networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ritam Mallick , Seba Susan , Vaibhaw Agrawal , Rizul Garg , Prateek Rawal

We introduce sub-sentence encoder, a contrastively-learned contextual embedding model for fine-grained semantic representation of text. In contrast to the standard practice with sentence embeddings, where the meaning of an entire sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Sihao Chen , Hongming Zhang , Tong Chen , Ben Zhou , Wenhao Yu , Dian Yu , Baolin Peng , Hongwei Wang , Dan Roth , Dong Yu

Autoencoders are techniques for data representation learning based on artificial neural networks. Differently to other feature learning methods which may be focused on finding specific transformations of the feature space, they can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Charte , Francisco Charte , María J. del Jesus , Francisco Herrera

Image captioning is one of the most challenging tasks in AI, which aims to automatically generate textual sentences for an image. Recent methods for image captioning follow encoder-decoder framework that transforms the sequence of salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou

We introduce a new system for automatic image content removal and inpainting. Unlike traditional inpainting algorithms, which require advance knowledge of the region to be filled in, our system automatically detects the area to be removed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Siyang Qin , Jiahui Wei , Roberto Manduchi

Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel-wise objective function. However, this approach can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kibrom Berihu Girum , Gilles Créhange , Alain Lalande

Context plays an important role in visual pattern recognition as it provides complementary clues for different learning tasks including image classification and annotation. In the particular scenario of kernel learning, the general recipe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Hailin Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

We study the use of a time series encoder to learn representations that are useful on data set types with which it has not been trained on. The encoder is formed of a convolutional neural network whose temporal output is summarized by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Alexandros Karatzoglou

Neural sequence models, especially transformers, exhibit a remarkable capacity for in-context learning. They can construct new predictors from sequences of labeled examples $(x, f(x))$ presented in the input without further parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ekin Akyürek , Dale Schuurmans , Jacob Andreas , Tengyu Ma , Denny Zhou

In this paper, we present a novel image inpainting technique using frequency domain information. Prior works on image inpainting predict the missing pixels by training neural networks using only the spatial domain information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Hiya Roy , Subhajit Chaudhury , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Tatsuaki Hashimoto

Recent work has made significant progress in improving spatial resolution for pixelwise labeling with Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) framework by employing Dilated/Atrous convolution, utilizing multi-scale features and refining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Hang Zhang , Kristin Dana , Jianping Shi , Zhongyue Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Ambrish Tyagi , Amit Agrawal

Feature disentanglement of the foreground target objects and the background surrounding context has not been yet fully accomplished. The lack of network interpretability prevents advancing for feature disentanglement and better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos