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As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training,…

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Deep learning offers a promising avenue for automating many recognition tasks in fields such as medicine and forensics. However, the black-box nature of these models hinders their adoption in high-stakes applications where trust and…

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The rise of personalized generative models raises a central question: how should we evaluate identity preservation? Given a reference image (e.g., one's pet), we expect the generated image to retain precise details attached to the subject's…

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In this paper, we introduce robust and synergetic hand-crafted features and a simple but efficient deep feature from a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for defocus estimation. This paper systematically analyzes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jinsun Park , Yu-Wing Tai , Donghyeon Cho , In So Kweon

With the development of the self-attention mechanism, the Transformer model has demonstrated its outstanding performance in the computer vision domain. However, the massive computation brought from the full attention mechanism became a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Hai Lan , Xihao Wang , Xian Wei

The idea of using the recurrent neural network for visual attention has gained popularity in computer vision community. Although the recurrent attention model (RAM) leverages the glimpses with more large patch size to increasing its scope,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Gang Chen

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. Traditional approaches often rely on external modules like Class Activation Maps to highlight regions of interest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

Recognizing the category of the object and using the features of the object itself to predict grasp configuration is of great significance to improve the accuracy of the grasp detection model and expand its application. Researchers have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Mingshuai Dong , Shimin Wei , Jianqin Yin , Xiuli Yu

This paper introduces a convolutional recurrent network with attention for speech command recognition. Attention models are powerful tools to improve performance on natural language, image captioning and speech tasks. The proposed model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Douglas Coimbra de Andrade , Sabato Leo , Martin Loesener Da Silva Viana , Christoph Bernkopf

Current weakly supervised object localization and segmentation rely on class-discriminative visualization techniques to generate pseudo-labels for pixel-level training. Such visualization methods, including class activation mapping (CAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiangwei Shi , Seyran Khademi , Yunqiang Li , Jan van Gemert

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Automatic sleep staging is a challenging problem and state-of-the-art algorithms have not yet reached satisfactory performance to be used instead of manual scoring by a sleep technician. Much research has been done to find good feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi

We propose the Recurrent Soft Attention Model, which integrates the visual attention from the original image to a LSTM memory cell through a down-sample network. The model recurrently transmits visual attention to the memory cells for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Liliang Ren

Recently, deep learning-based models have exhibited remarkable performance for image manipulation detection. However, most of them suffer from poor universality of handcrafted or predetermined features. Meanwhile, they only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Yang , Huizhou Li , Fangting Lin , Bin Jiang , Hao Zhao

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

When faced with learning challenging new tasks, humans often follow sequences of steps that allow them to incrementally build up the necessary skills for performing these new tasks. However, in machine learning, models are most often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Otilia Stretcu , Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Tom M. Mitchell , Barnabás Póczos

We consider the problem of fine-grained classification on an edge camera device that has limited power. The edge device must sparingly interact with the cloud to minimize communication bits to conserve power, and the cloud upon receiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama , Stan Sclaroff , Vitaly Ablavsky

Salient object segmentation aims at distinguishing various salient objects from backgrounds. Despite the lack of semantic consistency, salient objects often have obvious texture and location characteristics in local area. Based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Jing Tan , Pengfei Xiong , Yuwen He , Kuntao Xiao , Zhengyi Lv

People deploy top-down, goal-directed attention to accomplish tasks, such as finding lost keys. By tuning the visual system to relevant information sources, object recognition can become more efficient (a benefit) and more biased toward the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoliang Luo , Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

Visual attention modeling has recently gained momentum in developing visual hierarchies provided by Convolutional Neural Networks. Despite recent successes of feedforward processing on the abstraction of concepts form raw images, the…

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