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Artificial neural network (ANN) is a very useful tool in solving learning problems. Boosting the performances of ANN can be mainly concluded from two aspects: optimizing the architecture of ANN and normalizing the raw data for ANN. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Qingjiu Zhang , Shiliang 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

This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

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

In this paper, we present a general framework for low-level vision tasks including image compression artifacts reduction and image denoising. Under this framework, a novel concatenated attention neural network (CANet) is specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Tian YingJie , Wang YiQi , Yang LinRui , Qi ZhiQuan

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

This paper strives to learn fine-grained fashion similarity. In this similarity paradigm, one should pay more attention to the similarity in terms of a specific design/attribute among fashion items, which has potential values in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Zhe Ma , Jianfeng Dong , Yao Zhang , Zhongzi Long , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Shouling Ji

The recent integration of attention mechanisms into segmentation networks improves their representational capabilities through a great emphasis on more informative features. However, these attention mechanisms ignore an implicit sub-task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zilong Zhong , Zhong Qiu Lin , Rene Bidart , Xiaodan Hu , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Zhifeng Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jonathan Li , Alexander Wong

Multimodal learning has gained much success in recent years. However, current multimodal fusion methods adopt the attention mechanism of Transformers to implicitly learn the underlying correlation of multimodal features. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Thanh-Dat Truong , Christophe Bobda , Nitin Agarwal , Khoa Luu

Depth estimation is a traditional computer vision task, which plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Recently, deep-convolutional-neural-networks based methods have achieved promising results in the monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yuru Chen , Haitao Zhao , Zhengwei Hu

Breast cancer classification remains a challenging task due to inter-class ambiguity and intra-class variability. Existing deep learning-based methods try to confront this challenge by utilizing complex nonlinear projections. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiao Kang , Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Xiaoming Xi , Yilong Yin

To address the challenges of untimely detection and online monitoring lag in injection molding quality anomalies, this study proposes a mixed feature attention-artificial neural network (MFA-ANN) model for high-precision online prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Maoyuan Li , Sihong Li , Guancheng Shen , Yun Zhang , Huamin Zhou

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are more suitable, indeed. However, fixed kernel sizes make traditional CNN too specific, neither flexible nor conducive to feature learning, thus impacting on the classification accuracy. The convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Muhammad Ahmad , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Xin Wu

Attention mechanisms, and most prominently self-attention, are a powerful building block for processing not only text but also images. These provide a parameter efficient method for aggregating inputs. We focus on self-attention in vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Nichita Diaconu , Daniel E Worrall

Single image super resolution is of great importance as a low-level computer vision task. Recent approaches with deep convolutional neural networks have achieved im-pressive performance. However, existing architectures have limitations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xi Cheng , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

Large scale object detection datasets are constantly increasing their size in terms of the number of classes and annotations count. Yet, the number of object-level categories annotated in detection datasets is an order of magnitude smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jason Kuen , Federico Perazzi , Zhe Lin , Jianming Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a fundamental task in many applications such as scene understanding and reconstruction. However, most of the existing methods rely on accurately labeled datasets. A weakly-supervised framework based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Fang Gao , Jiabao Wang , Jun Yu , Yaoxiong Wang , Feng Shuang

Fine-grained image recognition is central to many multimedia tasks such as search, retrieval and captioning. Unfortunately, these tasks are still challenging since the appearance of samples of the same class can be more different than those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Pau Rodríguez López , Diego Velazquez Dorta , Guillem Cucurull Preixens , Josep M. Gonfaus , F. Xavier Roca Marva , Jordi Gonzàlez Sabaté

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) use low bit-width fixed-point numbers for representing weight parameters and activations, and are often used in real-world applications due to their saving of computation resources and reproducibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Dachao Lin , Peiqin Sun , Guangzeng Xie , Shuchang Zhou , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we address the scene segmentation task by capturing rich contextual dependencies based on the selfattention mechanism. Unlike previous works that capture contexts by multi-scale features fusion, we propose a Dual Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jun Fu , Jing Liu , Haijie Tian , Yong Li , Yongjun Bao , Zhiwei Fang , Hanqing Lu

A critically important, ubiquitous, and yet poorly understood ingredient in modern deep networks (DNs) is batch normalization (BN), which centers and normalizes the feature maps. To date, only limited progress has been made understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Randall Balestriero , Richard G. Baraniuk