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While self-attention mechanism has shown promising results for many vision tasks, it only considers the current features at a time. We show that such a manner cannot take full advantage of the attention mechanism. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Xu Ma , Jingda Guo , Sihai Tang , Zhinan Qiao , Qi Chen , Qing Yang , Song Fu

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Self-attention networks (SAN) have been introduced into automatic speech recognition (ASR) and achieved state-of-the-art performance owing to its superior ability in capturing long term dependency. One of the key ingredients is the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Zhao You , Dan Su , Jie Chen , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

In this work, we aim to predict human eye fixation with view-free scenes based on an end-to-end deep learning architecture. Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made substantial improvement on human attention prediction, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in local spatial pattern recognition. For many vision tasks, such as object recognition and segmentation, salient information is also present outside CNN's kernel boundaries. However, CNNs struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Farzad Salajegheh , Nader Asadi , Soroush Saryazdi , Sudhir Mudur

Transformer is an attention-based neural network, which consists of two sublayers, namely, Self-Attention Network (SAN) and Feed-Forward Network (FFN). Existing research explores to enhance the two sublayers separately to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhihao Fan , Yeyun Gong , Dayiheng Liu , Zhongyu Wei , Siyuan Wang , Jian Jiao , Nan Duan , Ruofei Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Neural networks equipped with self-attention have parallelizable computation, light-weight structure, and the ability to capture both long-range and local dependencies. Further, their expressive power and performance can be boosted by using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

State-of-the-art results on neural machine translation often use attentional sequence-to-sequence models with some form of convolution or recursion. Vaswani et al. (2017) propose a new architecture that avoids recurrence and convolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Karim Ahmed , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted significant attention for hyperspectral image super-resolution tasks. However, a key limitation is their reliance on local neighborhoods, which leads to a lack of global contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen

Initially developed for natural language processing (NLP), Transformer model is now widely used for speech processing tasks such as speaker recognition, due to its powerful sequence modeling capabilities. However, conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Rui Wang , Junyi Ao , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Zhihua Wei , Tom Ko , Qing Li , Yu Zhang

In this paper, we tackle the high computational overhead of Transformers for efficient image super-resolution~(SR). Motivated by the observations of self-attention's inter-layer repetition, we introduce a convolutionized self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

Attention mechanism of late has been quite popular in the computer vision community. A lot of work has been done to improve the performance of the network, although almost always it results in increased computational complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar

The recent integration of attention mechanisms into segmentation networks improves their representational capabilities through a great emphasis on more informative features. However, these attention mechanisms ignore an implicit sub-task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zilong Zhong , Zhong Qiu Lin , Rene Bidart , Xiaodan Hu , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Zhifeng Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jonathan Li , Alexander Wong

The shift from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers has reshaped computer vision, yet these two architectural families are typically viewed as fundamentally distinct. We argue that convolution and self-attention, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mingi Kang , Jeová Farias Sales Rocha Neto

The remote sensing image change detection task is an essential method for large-scale monitoring. We propose HSANet, a network that uses hierarchical convolution to extract multi-scale features. It incorporates hybrid self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chengxi Han , Xiaoyu Su , Zhiqiang Wei , Meiqi Hu , Yichu Xu

Self-attention has the promise of improving computer vision systems due to parameter-independent scaling of receptive fields and content-dependent interactions, in contrast to parameter-dependent scaling and content-independent interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Vaswani , Prajit Ramachandran , Aravind Srinivas , Niki Parmar , Blake Hechtman , Jonathon Shlens

Multivariate time series anomaly detection (MTAD) plays a vital role in a wide variety of real-world application domains. Over the past few years, MTAD has attracted rapidly increasing attention from both academia and industry. Many deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Feng Xia , Xin Chen , Shuo Yu , Mingliang Hou , Mujie Liu , Linlin You

We propose a novel model named Multi-Channel Attention Selection Generative Adversarial Network (SelectionGAN) for guided image-to-image translation, where we translate an input image into another while respecting an external semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hao Tang , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Safe navigation of autonomous agents in human centric environments requires the ability to understand and predict motion of neighboring pedestrians. However, predicting pedestrian intent is a complex problem. Pedestrian motion is governed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jasmine Sekhon , Cody Fleming

We propose a novel architecture for object classification, called Self-Attention Capsule Networks (SACN). SACN is the first model that incorporates the Self-Attention mechanism as an integral layer within the Capsule Network (CapsNet).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Assaf Hoogi , Brian Wilcox , Yachee Gupta , Daniel L. Rubin