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Sampling-based motion planning is an effective tool to compute safe trajectories for automated vehicles in complex environments. However, a fast convergence to the optimal solution can only be ensured with the use of problem-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Holger Banzhaf , Paul Sanzenbacher , Ulrich Baumann , J. Marius Zöllner

We here propose a novel hierarchical transformer model that adeptly integrates the feature extraction capabilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the advanced representational potential of Vision Transformers (ViTs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Deep neural nets typically perform end-to-end backpropagation to learn the weights, a procedure that creates synchronization constraints in the weight update step across layers and is not biologically plausible. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yuwen Xiong , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

A major advantage of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is that the focused receptive field size is increased by stacking multiple convolutional layers. Accordingly, the model can explore the long-range dependency of features from…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Sheng Li , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

Recent successes in image analysis with deep neural networks are achieved almost exclusively with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), typically trained using the backpropagation (BP) algorithm. In a 2022 preprint, Geoffrey Hinton proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Riccardo Scodellaro , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Frauke Alves , Matthias Schröter

Previous studies suggested that lateral interactions of V1 cells are responsible, among other visual effects, of bottom-up visual attention (alternatively named visual salience or saliency). Our objective is to mimic these connections with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-19 David Berga , Xavier Otazu

Many visual phenomena suggest that humans use top-down generative or reconstructive processes to create visual percepts (e.g., imagery, object completion, pareidolia), but little is known about the role reconstruction plays in robust object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seoyoung Ahn , Hossein Adeli , Gregory J. Zelinsky

Recently Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on various classification tasks. In this paper, we present for the first time a place recognition technique based on CNN models, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Zetao Chen , Obadiah Lam , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have revolutionized various fields of vision research and have seen unprecedented adoption for multiple tasks such as classification, detection, captioning, etc. However, they offer little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Konda Reddy Mopuri , Utsav Garg , R. Venkatesh Babu

Convolution exploits locality for efficiency at a cost of missing long range context. Self-attention has been adopted to augment CNNs with non-local interactions. Recent works prove it possible to stack self-attention layers to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Huiyu Wang , Yukun Zhu , Bradley Green , Hartwig Adam , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Convolutional neural networks are basic structures using jet images as input for the jet tagging problems. However, what they have learned during the training process is always difficult to understand just through feature maps. Inspired by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Jing Li , Hao Sun

This paper proposes a new topology optimization method that applies a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one deep learning technique for topology optimization problems. Using this method, we acquire a structure with a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yusuke Takahashi , Yoshiro Suzuki , Akira Todoroki

Leveraging the advanced functionalities of modern radio frequency (RF) modeling and simulation tools, specifically designed for adaptive radar processing applications, this paper presents a data-driven approach to improve accuracy in radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Ali Pezeshki , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , Vahid Tarokh

Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been extremely successful in solving intensive computer vision tasks. The convolutional filters used in CNNs have played a major role in this success, by extracting useful features from the inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Pravendra Singh , Pratik Mazumder , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Recurrent neural networks with differentiable attention mechanisms have had success in generative and classification tasks. We show that the classification performance of such models can be enhanced by guiding a randomly initialized model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Jack Lindsey

The neural attention mechanism has been incorporated into deep neural networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains. Most such models use multi-head self-attention which is appealing for the ability to attend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shujian Zhang , Xinjie Fan , Huangjie Zheng , Korawat Tanwisuth , Mingyuan Zhou

We propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based multi-task learning approach for open-set visual recognition. We combine a classifier network and a decoder network with a shared feature extractor network within a multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Poojan Oza , Vishal M. Patel

We propose here an extended attention model for sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural networks (RNNs) designed to capture (pseudo-)periods in time series. This extended attention model can be deployed on top of any RNN and is shown to yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Yagmur G. Cinar , Hamid Mirisaee , Parantapa Goswami , Eric Gaussier , Ali Ait-Bachir , Vadim Strijov

In this paper, we present a Neuron Abandoning Attention Flow (NAFlow) method to address the open problem of visually explaining the attention evolution dynamics inside CNNs when making their classification decisions. A novel cascading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

Top-performing landmark estimation algorithms are based on exploiting the excellent ability of large convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to represent local appearance. However, it is well known that they can only learn weak spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Andrés Prados-Torreblanca , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela