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Scene flow, which provides the 3D motion field of the first frame from two consecutive point clouds, is vital for dynamic scene perception. However, contemporary scene flow methods face three major challenges. Firstly, they lack global flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Zhiyang Lu , Qinghan Chen , Zhimin Yuan , Ming Cheng

Over the past decade, many computational saliency prediction models have been proposed for 2D images and videos. Considering that the human visual system has evolved in a natural 3D environment, it is only natural to want to design visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Mahsa T. Pourazad , Panos Nasiopoulos

We consider the problem of visually explaining similarity models, i.e., explaining why a model predicts two images to be similar in addition to producing a scalar score. While much recent work in visual model interpretability has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Richard J. Radke , Ziyan Wu

In this paper, we address the semantic segmentation task with a deep network that combines contextual features and spatial information. The proposed Cross Attention Network is composed of two branches and a Feature Cross Attention (FCA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Mengyu Liu , Hujun Yin

Recently, contrastive learning-based image translation methods have been proposed, which contrasts different spatial locations to enhance the spatial correspondence. However, the methods often ignore the diverse semantic relation within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chanyong Jung , Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next interaction of a user based on their behavior sequence, where complementary relations often provide essential signals for predicting the next item. However, mainstream models relying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

Low-light conditions have an adverse impact on machine cognition, limiting the performance of computer vision systems in real life. Since low-light data is limited and difficult to annotate, we focus on image processing to enhance low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

Self-supervised representation learning for visual pre-training has achieved remarkable success with sample (instance or pixel) discrimination and semantics discovery of instance, whereas there still exists a non-negligible gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xiaoni Li , Yu Zhou , Yifei Zhang , Aoting Zhang , Wei Wang , Ning Jiang , Haiying Wu , Weiping Wang

Multi-view clustering can explore common semantics from multiple views and has attracted increasing attention. However, existing works punish multiple objectives in the same feature space, where they ignore the conflict between learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Jie Xu , Huayi Tang , Yazhou Ren , Liang Peng , Xiaofeng Zhu , Lifang He

Semantic segmentation has recently achieved notable advances by exploiting "class-level" contextual information during learning. However, these approaches simply concatenate class-level information to pixel features to boost the pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ye Huang , Di Kang , Liang Chen , Wenjing Jia , Xiangjian He , Lixin Duan , Xuefei Zhe , Linchao Bao

Modern vision models increasingly rely on rich semantic representations that extend beyond class labels to include descriptive concepts and contextual attributes. However, existing datasets exhibit Semantic Coverage Imbalance (SCI), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sakib Ahammed , Xia Cui , Xinqi Fan , Wenqi Lu , Moi Hoon Yap

In this paper, we focus on designing effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiangtai Li , Ansheng You , Zhen Zhu , Houlong Zhao , Maoke Yang , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong

Domain adaptive semantic segmentation refers to making predictions on a certain target domain with only annotations of a specific source domain. Current state-of-the-art works suggest that performing category alignment can alleviate domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuang Li , Binhui Xie , Bin Zang , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng , Ruigang Yang , Guoren Wang

The relevance between a query and a document in search can be represented as matching degree between the two objects. Latent space models have been proven to be effective for the task, which are often trained with click-through data. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Shuxin Wang , Xin Jiang , Hang Li , Jun Xu , Bin Wang

Concept learning is a form of supervised machine learning that operates on knowledge bases in description logics. State-of-the-art concept learners often rely on an iterative search through a countably infinite concept space. In each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou , Caglar Demir , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

In goal-directed visual tasks, human perception is guided by both top-down and bottom-up cues. At the same time, foveal vision plays a crucial role in directing attention efficiently. Modern research on bio-inspired computational attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 João Luzio , Alexandre Bernardino , Plinio Moreno

Channel and spatial attentions have respectively brought significant improvements in extracting feature dependencies and spatial structure relations for various downstream vision tasks. While their combination is more beneficial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yunzhong Si , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu , Wenhao Zhang , Yao Dong , Yuxing Chen , Hongbo Li