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Image segmentation is a historic and significant computer vision task. With the help of deep learning techniques, image semantic segmentation has made great progresses. Over recent years, based on guidance of attention mechanism compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Dongwei Sun , Zhuolin Gao

We present a novel graph neural network (GNN) architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that leverages query-aware attention mechanisms and learned scoring heads to improve retrieval accuracy on complex, multi-hop questions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vibhor Agrawal , Fay Wang , Rishi Puri

Attention mechanisms are widely used in current encoder/decoder frameworks of image captioning, where a weighted average on encoded vectors is generated at each time step to guide the caption decoding process. However, the decoder has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Jie Chen , Xiao-Yong Wei

Several recent works have shown that image descriptors produced by deep convolutional neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance for image classification and retrieval problems. It has also been shown that the activations from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Artem Babenko , Victor Lempitsky

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

Recently, image representation built upon Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been shown to provide effective descriptors for image search, outperforming pre-CNN features as short-vector representations. Yet such models are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Giorgos Tolias , Ronan Sicre , Hervé Jégou

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with attention have been successfully applied for learning visual feature matching. However, current methods learn with complete graphs, resulting in a quadratic complexity in the number of features. Motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yan Shi , Jun-Xiong Cai , Yoli Shavit , Tai-Jiang Mu , Wensen Feng , Kai Zhang

We propose an attentive local feature descriptor suitable for large-scale image retrieval, referred to as DELF (DEep Local Feature). The new feature is based on convolutional neural networks, which are trained only with image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Hyeonwoo Noh , Andre Araujo , Jack Sim , Tobias Weyand , Bohyung Han

Global Average Pooling (GAP) is used by default on the channel-wise attention mechanism to extract channel descriptors. However, the simple global aggregation method of GAP is easy to make the channel descriptors have homogeneity, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mingnan Luo , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , Dan Dai , Yingxue Xu

In recent years, powered by the learned discriminative representation via graph neural network (GNN) models, deep graph matching methods have made great progresses in the task of matching semantic features. However, these methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 He Liu , Tao Wang , Yidong Li , Congyan Lang , Yi Jin , Haibin Ling

In this paper we propose a new approach for classifying the global emotion of images containing groups of people. To achieve this task, we consider two different and complementary sources of information: i) a global representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Aarush Gupta , Dakshit Agrawal , Hardik Chauhan , Jose Dolz , Marco Pedersoli

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) offer a robust and interpretable approach to image classification, making them a promising choice for microscopy image analysis. However, a performance gap remains between NCA and larger, more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Breast cancer classification remains a challenging task due to inter-class ambiguity and intra-class variability. Existing deep learning-based methods try to confront this challenge by utilizing complex nonlinear projections. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiao Kang , Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Xiaoming Xi , Yilong Yin

In state-of-the-art deep neural networks, both feature normalization and feature attention have become ubiquitous. % with significant performance improvement shown in a vast amount of tasks. They are usually studied as separate modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xilai Li , Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

Graph convolutional networks (GCN) is widely used to handle irregular data since it updates node features by using the structure information of graph. With the help of iterated GCN, high-order information can be obtained to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wenyu Zhang , Qing Ding , Jian Hu , Yi Ma , Mingzhe Lu

Vision Transformer (ViT) extracts the final representation from either class token or an average of all patch tokens, following the architecture of Transformer in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim , Byeongho Heo , Sangdoo Yun , Sanghyuk Chun , Geonmo Gu , Wonjae Kim

Structural MRI and PET imaging play an important role in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), showing the morphological changes and glucose metabolism changes in the brain respectively. The manifestations in the brain image of some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Yanteng Zhang , Qizhi Teng , Xiaohai He , Tong Niu , Lipei Zhang , Yan Liu , Chao Ren

In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Priyanka Mudgal , Feng Liu

In computer vision tasks, the ability to focus on relevant regions within an image is crucial for improving model performance, particularly when key features are small, subtle, or spatially dispersed. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mahmudul Hasan