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Attention improves representation learning over RNNs, but its discrete nature limits continuous-time (CT) modeling. We introduce Neuronal Attention Circuit (NAC), a novel, biologically inspired CT-Attention mechanism that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Waleed Razzaq , Izis Kanjaraway , Yun-Bo Zhao

In state-of-the-art deep neural networks, both feature normalization and feature attention have become ubiquitous. % with significant performance improvement shown in a vast amount of tasks. They are usually studied as separate modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xilai Li , Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

In capsule networks, the routing algorithm connects capsules in consecutive layers, enabling the upper-level capsules to learn higher-level concepts by combining the concepts of the lower-level capsules. Capsule networks are known to have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Inyoung Paik , Taeyeong Kwak , Injung Kim

The Capsule Network is widely believed to be more robust than Convolutional Networks. However, there are no comprehensive comparisons between these two networks, and it is also unknown which components in the CapsNet affect its robustness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp , Han Hu

Recent machine learning models have shown that including attention as a component results in improved model accuracy and interpretability, despite the concept of attention in these approaches only loosely approximating the brain's attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hossein Adeli , Gregory Zelinsky

Capsule networks (CapsNets) aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts, and their relations using a two-step process involving part-whole transformation and hierarchical component routing. However, this hierarchical relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Swagatam Das , Eric Granger , Salvador Garcia

Learning invariant representations has been the long-standing approach to self-supervised learning. However, recently progress has been made in preserving equivariant properties in representations, yet do so with highly prescribed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Miles Everett , Aiden Durrant , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ning Gui , Danni Ge , Ziyin Hu

Advancements in deep learning are driven by training models with increasingly larger numbers of parameters, which in turn heightens the computational demands. To address this issue, Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Advait Gadhikar , Souptik Kumar Majumdar , Niclas Popp , Piyapat Saranrittichai , Martin Rapp , Lukas Schott

Convolutional neural networks have enabled major progresses in addressing pixel-level prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal prediction and so on, benefiting from their powerful capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Guanglei Yang , Paolo Rota , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Dan Xu , Mingli Ding , Elisa Ricci

The increased availability and accuracy of eye-gaze tracking technology has sparked attention-related research in psychology, neuroscience, and, more recently, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The attention mechanism in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Hongzhi Zhu , Septimiu Salcudean , Robert Rohling

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl

This paper studies the few-shot segmentation (FSS) task, which aims to segment objects belonging to unseen categories in a query image by learning a model on a small number of well-annotated support samples. Our analysis of two mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Tianyu Zou , Shengwu Xiong , Ruilin Yao , Yi Rong

Recent works of point clouds show that mulit-frame spatio-temporal modeling outperforms single-frame versions by utilizing cross-frame information. In this paper, we further improve spatio-temporal point cloud feature learning with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Hanwen Cao , Yongyi Lu , Cewu Lu , Bo Pang , Gongshen Liu , Alan Yuille

Spatial and channel re-calibration have become powerful concepts in computer vision. Their ability to capture long-range dependencies is especially useful for those networks that extract local features, such as CNNs. While re-calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Ignacio Sarasua , Sebastian Poelsterl , Christian Wachinger

Object-centric scene decompositions are important representations for downstream tasks in fields such as computer vision and robotics. The recently proposed Slot Attention module, already leveraged by several derivative works for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Markus Krimmel , Jan Achterhold , Joerg Stueckler

Improving the efficiency of state-of-the-art methods in semantic segmentation requires overcoming the increasing computational cost as well as issues such as fusing semantic information from global and local contexts. Based on the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Serdar Erisen

Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNN) are stationary and feedforward. They neither change their parameters during evaluation nor use feedback from higher to lower layers. Real brains, however, do. So does our Deep Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Marijn Stollenga , Jonathan Masci , Faustino Gomez , Juergen Schmidhuber

Activation functions play a decisive role in determining the capacity of Deep Neural Networks as they enable neural networks to capture inherent nonlinearities present in data fed to them. The prior research on activation functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jamshaid Ul Rahman , Faiza Makhdoom , Dianchen Lu

While linear attention architectures offer efficient inference, compressing unbounded history into a fixed-size memory inherently limits expressivity and causes information loss. To address this limitation, we introduce Random Access Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kaicheng Xiao , Haotian Li , Liran Dong , Guoliang Xing