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Attention Mechanism is a widely used method for improving the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on computer vision tasks. Despite its pervasiveness, we have a poor understanding of what its effectiveness stems from. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiang Ye , Zihang He , Heng Wang , Yong Li

Capturing contextual dependencies has proven useful to improve the representational power of deep neural networks. Recent approaches that focus on modeling global context, such as self-attention and non-local operation, achieve this goal by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shenao Zhang , Li Shen , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

We present Attention Zoom, a modular and model-agnostic spatial attention mechanism designed to improve feature extraction in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike traditional attention approaches that require architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Daniel DeAlcala , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana

Visual attention, which assigns weights to image regions according to their relevance to a question, is considered as an indispensable part by most Visual Question Answering models. Although the questions may involve complex relations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chen Zhu , Yanpeng Zhao , Shuaiyi Huang , Kewei Tu , Yi Ma

In this paper, we propose a computational efficient end-to-end training deep neural network (CEDNN) model and spatial attention maps based on difference images. Firstly, the difference image is generated by image processing. Then five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jing Chen , Chenhui Wang , Kejun Wang , Meichen Liu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained remarkable performance in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, very deep networks can suffer from training difficulty and hardly achieve further performance gain. There are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Alexander Panaetov , Karim Elhadji Daou , Igor Samenko , Evgeny Tetin , Ilya Ivanov

Transformer architectures are now central to sequence modeling tasks. At its heart is the attention mechanism, which enables effective modeling of long-term dependencies in a sequence. Recently, transformers have been successfully applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Lin Zheng , Huijie Pan , Lingpeng Kong

Visual understanding requires comprehending complex visual relations between objects within a scene. Here, we seek to characterize the computational demands for abstract visual reasoning. We do this by systematically assessing the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Mohit Vaishnav , Remi Cadene , Andrea Alamia , Drew Linsley , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre

Deep Recurrent Neural Network architectures, though remarkably capable at modeling sequences, lack an intuitive high-level spatio-temporal structure. That is while many problems in computer vision inherently have an underlying high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ashesh Jain , Amir R. Zamir , Silvio Savarese , Ashutosh Saxena

Convolutional neural networks are basic structures using jet images as input for the jet tagging problems. However, what they have learned during the training process is always difficult to understand just through feature maps. Inspired by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Jing Li , Hao Sun

Deep learning has become a powerful tool for medical image analysis; however, conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) often fail to capture the fine-grained and complex features critical for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zahid Ullah , Minki Hong , Tahir Mahmood , Jihie Kim

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been consistently proved state-of-the-art results in image Super-Resolution (SR), representing an exceptional opportunity for the remote sensing field to extract further information and knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Francesco Salvetti , Vittorio Mazzia , Aleem Khaliq , Marcello Chiaberge

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

Recent works have shown the benefit of integrating Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) models into deep architectures for improving pixel-level prediction tasks. Following this line of research, in this paper we introduce a novel approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Dan Xu , Wei Wang , Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

In this work, we propose "Residual Attention Network", a convolutional neural network using attention mechanism which can incorporate with state-of-art feed forward network architecture in an end-to-end training fashion. Our Residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fei Wang , Mengqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Shuo Yang , Cheng Li , Honggang Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

We present a reward-predictive, model-based deep learning method featuring trajectory-constrained visual attention for local planning in visual navigation tasks. Our method learns to place visual attention at locations in latent image space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Stefan Wapnick , Travis Manderson , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Human visual system can selectively attend to parts of a scene for quick perception, a biological mechanism known as Human attention. Inspired by this, recent deep learning models encode attention mechanisms to focus on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiuxia Lai , Salman Khan , Yongwei Nie , Jianbing Shen , Hanqiu Sun , Ling Shao

High level understanding of sequential visual input is important for safe and stable autonomy, especially in localization and object detection. While traditional object classification and tracking approaches are specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mo Shan , Nikolay Atanasov