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Recently, Transformer architecture has been introduced into image restoration to replace convolution neural network (CNN) with surprising results. Considering the high computational complexity of Transformer with global attention, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Yongbing Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

As the range of tasks performed by a general vision system expands, executing multiple tasks accurately and efficiently in a single network has become an important and still open problem. Recent computer vision approaches address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Hila Levi , Shimon Ullman

We present a novel visual attention tracking technique based on Shared Attention modeling. Our proposed method models the viewer as a participant in the activity occurring in the scene. We go beyond image salience and instead of only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Siavash Gorji , James J. Clark

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a high accuracy on image classification tasks. However, DNNs trained by such dataset with co-occurrence bias may rely on wrong features while making decisions for classification. It will greatly affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Issei Sato , Takeo Igarashi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Exemplar-based colourisation aims to add plausible colours to a grayscale image using the guidance of a colour reference image. Most of the existing methods tackle the task as a style transfer problem, using a convolutional neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Marc Gorriz Blanch , Issa Khalifeh , Alan Smeaton , Noel O'Connor , Marta Mrak

Human pose estimation is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that there are many redundant regions in the images. In this work, we proposed a convolutional network architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Guanxiong Sun , Chengqin Ye , Kuanquan Wang

The adaptability of the convolutional neural network (CNN) technique for aerodynamic meta-modeling tasks is probed in this work. The primary objective is to develop suitable CNN architecture for variable flow conditions and object geometry,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-18 Yao Zhang , Woong-Je Sung , Dimitri Mavris

Many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) rely on progressive downsampling of their feature maps to increase the network's receptive field and decrease computational cost. However, this comes at the price of losing granularity in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Robin Hesse , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Neural Networks require large amounts of memory and compute to process high resolution images, even when only a small part of the image is actually informative for the task at hand. We propose a method based on a differentiable Top-K…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Aravindh Mahendran , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Dirk Weissenborn , Jakob Uszkoreit , Thomas Unterthiner

Breast cancer(BC) is a prevalent type of malignant tumor in women. Early diagnosis and treatment are vital for enhancing the patients' survival rate. Downsampling in deep networks may lead to loss of information, so for compensating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Bo Yang , Hong Peng , Xiaohui Luo , Jun Wang

Despite the progress made in sentence-level NMT, current systems still fall short at achieving fluent, good quality translation for a full document. Recent works in context-aware NMT consider only a few previous sentences as context and may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sameen Maruf , André F. T. Martins , Gholamreza Haffari

Biological systems leverage top-down feedback for visual processing, yet most artificial vision models succeed in image classification using purely feedforward or recurrent architectures, calling into question the functional significance of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Antonino Greco , Marco D'Alessandro , Karl J. Friston , Giovanni Pezzulo , Markus Siegel

Lane change (LC) is one of the safety-critical manoeuvres in highway driving according to various road accident records. Thus, reliably predicting such manoeuvre in advance is critical for the safe and comfortable operation of automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sajjad Mozaffari , Eduardo Arnold , Mehrdad Dianati , Saber Fallah

Recent years have witnessed the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) based models in the field of computer vision. CNN is able to learn hierarchically abstracted features from images in an end-to-end training manner. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xin Li , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Changsong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Existing person re-identification (re-id) methods either assume the availability of well-aligned person bounding box images as model input or rely on constrained attention selection mechanisms to calibrate misaligned images. They are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Wei Li , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has demonstrated the unique advantage in audio, image and text learning; recently it has also challenged Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with long short-term memory cells (LSTM) in sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Qiming Chen , Ren Wu

Recently, automatic image caption generation has been an important focus of the work on multimodal translation task. Existing approaches can be roughly categorized into two classes, i.e., top-down and bottom-up, the former transfers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Wei Wei , Ling Cheng , Xianling Mao , Guangyou Zhou , Feida Zhu

When training transformers on graph-structured data, incorporating information about the underlying topology is crucial for good performance. Topological masking, a type of relative position encoding, achieves this by upweighting or…

Sentiment analysis is known as one of the most crucial tasks in the field of natural language processing and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of those prominent models that is commonly used for this aim. Although convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hossein Sadr , Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi , Mir Mohsen Pedram , Mohammad Teshnehlab