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Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Jing Bai , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yue Lu , Yun Zhou , Zhuqing Jiang , Xiaoqiang Guo , Zixuan Yang

Attention models have recently emerged as a powerful approach, demonstrating significant progress in various fields. Visualization techniques, such as class activation mapping, provide visual insights into the reasoning of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ali Caglayan , Nevrez Imamoglu , Oguzhan Guclu , Ali Osman Serhatoglu , Ahmet Burak Can , Ryosuke Nakamura

A novel ``edge attention-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)'' is proposed in this research for object classification task. With the advent of advanced computing technology, CNN models have achieved to remarkable success, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Santanu Roy , Ashvath Suresh , Archit Gupta

Importance estimators are explainability methods that quantify feature importance for deep neural networks (DNN). In vision transformers (ViT), the self-attention mechanism naturally leads to attention maps, which are sometimes interpreted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lennart Brocki , Jakub Binda , Neo Christopher Chung

Channel attention mechanisms in convolutional neural networks have been proven to be effective in various computer vision tasks. However, the performance improvement comes with additional model complexity and computation cost. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Krushi Patel , Guanghui Wang

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

We present Feature-Align CNN (FA-CNN), a prototype CNN architecture with intrinsic class attribution through end-to-end feature alignment. Our intuition is that the use of unordered operations such as Linear and Conv2D layers cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Parniyan Farvardin , David Chapman

Intra-class variations in the open world lead to various challenges in classification tasks. To overcome these challenges, fine-grained classification was introduced, and many approaches were proposed. Some rely on locating and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Salwa Al Khatib , Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Jameel Hassan

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

In recent years, the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have received a lot of interest in the side-channel community. The previous work has shown that CNNs have the potential of breaking the cryptographic algorithm protected with masking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Minhui Jin , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

In this paper, we present Conjoint Attentions (CAs), a class of novel learning-to-attend strategies for graph neural networks (GNNs). Besides considering the layer-wise node features propagated within the GNN, CAs can additionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tiantian He , Yew-Soon Ong , Lu Bai

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Many real-world problems can be represented as graph-based learning problems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning spatial and attentional convolution neural networks on arbitrary graphs. Different from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Yuanxing Ning , Philip S. Yu

Vehicle make and model recognition (VMMR) is a crucial component of the Intelligent Transport System, garnering significant attention in recent years. VMMR has been widely utilized for detecting suspicious vehicles, monitoring urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Narges Semiromizadeh , Omid Nejati Manzari , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zhu Baozhou , Peter Hofstee , Jinho Lee , Zaid Al-Ars

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

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have exhibited superior performance in many visual recognition tasks including image classification, object detection, and scene label- ing, due to their large learning capacity and resistance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Miao Sun , Tony X. Han , Xun Xu , Ming-Chang Liu , Ahmad Khodayari-Rostamabad