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This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

We present a context aware object detection method based on a retrieve-and-transform scene layout model. Given an input image, our approach first retrieves a coarse scene layout from a codebook of typical layout templates. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tao Wang , Xuming He , Yuanzheng Cai , Guobao Xiao

Recent advancements in unified image generation models, such as OmniGen, have enabled the handling of diverse image generation and editing tasks within a single framework, accepting multimodal, interleaved texts and images in free form.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chao Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Nenghai Yu

Convolutional neural networks have allowed remarkable advances in single image super-resolution (SISR) over the last decade. Among recent advances in SISR, attention mechanisms are crucial for high-performance SR models. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Zhi Zhang

Successful visual recognition networks benefit from aggregating information spanning from a wide range of scales. Previous research has investigated information fusion of connected layers or multiple branches in a block, seeking to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Yi Li , Zhanghui Kuang , Yimin Chen , Wayne Zhang

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task in computer vision. It aims to identify incorrect image data patterns which deviate from the normal ones. Conventional methods generally address AD by preparing augmented negative samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianjian Qin , Chunzhi Gu , Jun Yu , Chao Zhang

Recently, scene text detection has been a challenging task. Texts with arbitrary shape or large aspect ratio are usually hard to detect. Previous segmentation-based methods can describe curve text more accurately but suffer from over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qi Zhao , Yufei Wang , Shuchang Lyu , Lijiang Chen

Humans process visual scenes selectively and sequentially using attention. Central to models of human visual attention is the saliency map. We propose a hierarchical visual architecture that operates on a saliency map and uses a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Sean Welleck , Jialin Mao , Kyunghyun Cho , Zheng Zhang

Image retargeting is the task of making images capable of being displayed on screens with different sizes. This work should be done so that high-level visual information and low-level features such as texture remain as intact as possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Mahdi Ahmadi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Text-based person search aims at retrieving target person in an image gallery using a descriptive sentence of that person. It is very challenging since modal gap makes effectively extracting discriminative features more difficult. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Chenyang Gao , Guanyu Cai , Xinyang Jiang , Feng Zheng , Jun Zhang , Yifei Gong , Pai Peng , Xiaowei Guo , Xing Sun

Image-text matching is an important multi-modal task with massive applications. It tries to match the image and the text with similar semantic information. Existing approaches do not explicitly transform the different modalities into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shiyang Yan , Li Yu , Yuan Xie

Neural network performance scales with both model size and data volume, as shown in both language and image processing. This requires scaling-friendly architectures and large datasets. While transformers have been adapted for 3D vision, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Guangda Ji , Silvan Weder , Francis Engelmann , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

Predicting salient regions in natural images requires the detection of objects that are present in a scene. To develop robust representations for this challenging task, high-level visual features at multiple spatial scales must be extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Alexander Kroner , Mario Senden , Kurt Driessens , Rainer Goebel

When it comes to classifying child sexual abuse images, managing similar inter-class correlations and diverse intra-class correlations poses a significant challenge. Vision transformer models, unlike conventional deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanxian He , Campbell Wilson , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Janis Dalins

Conventional scaling of neural networks typically involves designing a base network and growing different dimensions like width, depth, etc. of the same by some predefined scaling factors. We introduce an automated scaling approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Akash Guna R. T , Arnav Chavan , Deepak Gupta

We study the problem of large scale, multi-label visual recognition with a large number of possible classes. We propose a method for augmenting a trained neural network classifier with auxiliary capacity in a manner designed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-15 David Warde-Farley , Andrew Rabinovich , Dragomir Anguelov

Detection in large-scale scenes is a challenging problem due to small objects and extreme scale variation. It is essential to focus on the image regions of small objects. In this paper, we propose a novel Adaptive Zoom (AdaZoom) network as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jingtao Xu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

We present a visual localization framework based on novel deep attention aware features for autonomous driving that achieves centimeter level localization accuracy. Conventional approaches to the visual localization problem rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yao Zhou , Guowei Wan , Shenhua Hou , Li Yu , Gang Wang , Xiaofei Rui , Shiyu Song

Scene graph representations, which form a graph of visual object nodes together with their attributes and relations, have proved useful across a variety of vision and language applications. Recent work in the area has used Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Martin Andrews , Yew Ken Chia , Sam Witteveen