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Capsule networks (CapsNets) are superior at modeling hierarchical spatial relationships but suffer from two critical limitations: high computational cost due to iterative dynamic routing and poor robustness under input corruptions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Canqun Xiang , Chen Yang , Jiaoyan Zhao

A recently proposed method in deep learning groups multiple neurons to capsules such that each capsule represents an object or part of an object. Routing algorithms route the output of capsules from lower-level layers to upper-level layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 David Peer , Sebastian Stabinger , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Capsule networks are a recently developed class of neural networks that potentially address some of the deficiencies with traditional convolutional neural networks. By replacing the standard scalar activations with vectors, and by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Arjun Punjabi , Jonas Schmid , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Learning structural information is critical for producing an ideal result in retinal image segmentation. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown a powerful ability to extract effective representations. However, convolutional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yuguang Yan , Yubing Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Ming Yang , Mingkui Tan , Yanwu Xu

Anomaly detection is an essential problem in machine learning. Application areas include network security, health care, fraud detection, etc., involving high-dimensional datasets. A typical anomaly detection system always faces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Inderjeet Singh , Nandyala Hemachandra

Neural networks for visual content understanding have recently evolved from convolutional ones (CNNs) to transformers. The prior (CNN) relies on small-windowed kernels to capture the regional clues, demonstrating solid local expressiveness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zixuan Su , Hao Zhang , Jingjing Chen , Lei Pang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu-Gang Jiang

The sixth generation (6G) wireless networks are envisioned to deliver ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and high data rates, enabling advanced applications such as autonomous {unmaned aerial vehicles (UAV)} swarms and aerial edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Luis Antonio L. F. da Costa , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Rafael Kunst , Edison Pignaton de Freitas

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

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

This work presents a novel module, namely multi-branch concat (MBC), to process the input tensor and obtain the multi-scale feature map. The proposed MBC module brings new degrees of freedom (DoF) for the design of attention networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Keke Zu , Hu Zhang , Jian Lu , Lei Zhang , Chen Xu

It is well known that featuremap attention and multi-path representation are important for visual recognition. In this paper, we present a modularized architecture, which applies the channel-wise attention on different network branches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hang Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhongyue Zhang , Yi Zhu , Haibin Lin , Zhi Zhang , Yue Sun , Tong He , Jonas Mueller , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

We present an attention-based modular neural framework for computer vision. The framework uses a soft attention mechanism allowing models to be trained with gradient descent. It consists of three modules: a recurrent attention module…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Roland Memisevic

Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision in recent years. However, due to the irregular and disordered structure of point cloud data, transformer-based models for 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xincheng Yang , Mingze Jin , Weiji He , Qian Chen

In this work, we propose a novel neural network focusing on semantic labeling of ALS point clouds, which investigates the importance of long-range spatial and channel-wise relations and is termed as global relation-aware attentional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rong Huang , Yusheng Xu , Uwe Stilla

Capsule networks (CapsNets) have recently shown promise to excel in most computer vision tasks, especially pertaining to scene understanding. In this paper, we explore CapsNet's capabilities in optical flow estimation, a task at which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end capsule network for pixel level localization of actors and actions present in a video. The localization is performed based on a natural language query through which an actor and action are specified.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Bruce McIntosh , Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely deployed for many Machine Learning applications. Recently, CapsuleNets have overtaken traditional DNNs, because of their improved generalization ability due to the multi-dimensional capsules, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Recent advancements in object detection rely on modular architectures with multi-scale fusion and attention mechanisms. However, static fusion heuristics and class-agnostic attention limit performance in dynamic scenes with occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Md Abrar Jahin , Shahriar Soudeep , M. F. Mridha , Nafiz Fahad , Md. Jakir Hossen

Neural Network is a powerful Machine Learning tool that shows outstanding performance in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. In particular, recently proposed ResNet architecture and its modifications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Iurii Kemaev , Daniil Polykovskiy , Dmitry Vetrov

Weakly supervised action localization is a challenging task with extensive applications, which aims to identify actions and the corresponding temporal intervals with only video-level annotations available. This paper analyzes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiao-Yu Zhang , Haichao Shi , Changsheng Li , Xinchu Shi