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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

Recently, Vision Transformer and its variants have shown great promise on various computer vision tasks. The ability of capturing short- and long-range visual dependencies through self-attention is arguably the main source for the success.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiyang Dai , Bin Xiao , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Adder neural networks (AdderNets) have shown impressive performance on image classification with only addition operations, which are more energy efficient than traditional convolutional neural networks built with multiplications. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Xinghao Chen , Chang Xu , Minjing Dong , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

A variety of attention mechanisms have been studied to improve the performance of various computer vision tasks. However, the prior methods overlooked the significance of retaining the information on both channel and spatial aspects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Nico Hoffmann

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have dominated computer vision for years, due to its ability in capturing locality and translation invariance. Recently, many vision transformer architectures have been proposed and they show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Fan Wang , Ming Lin , Shuning Chang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be state-of-the-art models for visual cortical neurons. Cortical neurons in the primary visual cortex are sensitive to contextual information mediated by extensive horizontal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Isaac Lin , Tianye Wang , Shang Gao , Shiming Tang , Tai Sing Lee

Recently, a series of works in computer vision have shown promising results on various image and video understanding tasks using self-attention. However, due to the quadratic computational and memory complexities of self-attention, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zhuoran Shen , Irwan Bello , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Xuhui Jia , Ching-Hui Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks have played a significant role in various medical imaging tasks like classification and segmentation. They provide state-of-the-art performance compared to classical image processing algorithms. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Rakshith Sathish , Swanand Khare , Debdoot Sheet

Attention-based neural networks, such as Transformers, have become ubiquitous in numerous applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and time-series analysis. In all kinds of attention networks, the attention maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Zhuo Li , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

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

Recently, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) have been widely used in image restoration and obtained great success. However, most of existing methods are limited to local receptive field and equal treatment of different types of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yucheng Hang , Qingmin Liao , Wenming Yang , Yupeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Designing an efficient and effective neural network has remained a prominent topic in computer vision research. Depthwise onvolution (DWConv) is widely used in efficient CNNs or ViTs, but it needs frequent memory access during inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Haiduo Huang , Fuwei Yang , Dong Li , Ji Liu , Lu Tian , Jinzhang Peng , Pengju Ren , Emad Barsoum

The so-called "attention" is an efficient mechanism to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks. It uses contextual information to recalibrate the input to strengthen the propagation of informative features. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yu Xue , Ziming Yuan , Ferrante Neri

We present a novel method that extends the self-attention mechanism of a vision transformer (ViT) for more accurate object detection across diverse datasets. ViTs show strong capability for image understanding tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tan Nguyen , Coy D. Heldermon , Corey Toler-Franklin

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

We show how to augment any convolutional network with an attention-based global map to achieve non-local reasoning. We replace the final average pooling by an attention-based aggregation layer akin to a single transformer block, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Gabriel Synnaeve , Hervé Jégou

Attention plays a critical role in human visual experience. Furthermore, it has recently been demonstrated that attention can also play an important role in the context of applying artificial neural networks to a variety of tasks from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

In this paper, we detail the relationship between convolutions and self-attention in natural language tasks. We show that relative position embeddings in self-attention layers are equivalent to recently-proposed dynamic lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tyler A. Chang , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Zhuowen Tu

Self-attention network (SAN) has recently attracted increasing interest due to its fully parallelized computation and flexibility in modeling dependencies. It can be further enhanced with multi-headed attention mechanism by allowing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu