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Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

We propose a new network architecture, Gated Attention Networks (GaAN), for learning on graphs. Unlike the traditional multi-head attention mechanism, which equally consumes all attention heads, GaAN uses a convolutional sub-network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jiani Zhang , Xingjian Shi , Junyuan Xie , Hao Ma , Irwin King , Dit-Yan Yeung

We investigate Relational Graph Attention Networks, a class of models that extends non-relational graph attention mechanisms to incorporate relational information, opening up these methods to a wider variety of problems. A thorough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Dan Busbridge , Dane Sherburn , Pietro Cavallo , Nils Y. Hammerla

Attention plays a fundamental role in both natural and artificial intelligence systems. In deep learning, attention-based neural architectures, such as transformer architectures, are widely used to tackle problems in natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Pierre Baldi , Roman Vershynin

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

We propose a novel CNN architecture called ACTNET for robust instance image retrieval from large-scale datasets. Our key innovation is a learnable activation layer designed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Syed Sameed Husain , Eng-Jon Ong , Miroslaw Bober

Deep neural networks based purely on attention have been successful across several domains, relying on minimal architectural priors from the designer. In Human Action Recognition (HAR), attention mechanisms have been primarily adopted on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vittorio Mazzia , Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Federico Angelini , Marcello Chiaberge

In this work, we apply an attention-gated network to real-time automated scan plane detection for fetal ultrasound screening. Scan plane detection in fetal ultrasound is a challenging problem due the poor image quality resulting in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Jo Schlemper , Ozan Oktay , Liang Chen , Jacqueline Matthew , Caroline Knight , Bernhard Kainz , Ben Glocker , Daniel Rueckert

Linear attention mechanisms have emerged as efficient alternatives to full self-attention in Graph Transformers, offering linear time complexity. However, existing linear attention models often suffer from a significant drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhaolin Hu , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

In this work we propose a new non-monotonic activation function: the modulus. The majority of the reported research on nonlinearities is focused on monotonic functions. We empirically demonstrate how by using the modulus activation function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Iván Vallés-Pérez , Emilio Soria-Olivas , Marcelino Martínez-Sober , Antonio J. Serrano-López , Joan Vila-Francés , Juan Gómez-Sanchís

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

We introduce a simple yet surprisingly powerful model to incorporate attention in action recognition and human object interaction tasks. Our proposed attention module can be trained with or without extra supervision, and gives a sizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Rohit Girdhar , Deva Ramanan

The attention module is the key component in Transformers. While the global attention mechanism offers high expressiveness, its excessive computational cost restricts its applicability in various scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dongchen Han , Tianzhu Ye , Yizeng Han , Zhuofan Xia , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical image analysis that automatically learns to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs implicitly learn to suppress irrelevant regions in an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jo Schlemper , Ozan Oktay , Michiel Schaap , Mattias Heinrich , Bernhard Kainz , Ben Glocker , Daniel Rueckert

Although attention mechanisms have been applied to a variety of deep learning models and have been shown to improve the prediction performance, it has been reported to be vulnerable to perturbations to the mechanism. To overcome the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

In this paper, we propose a new capsule network architecture called Attention Routing CapsuleNet (AR CapsNet). We replace the dynamic routing and squash activation function of the capsule network with dynamic routing (CapsuleNet) with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jaewoong Choi , Hyun Seo , Suii Im , Myungjoo Kang

Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of point-based neural models on the point cloud analysis task. However, there remains a crucial issue on producing the efficient input embedding for raw point coordinates. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zihao Li , Pan Gao , Kang You , Chuan Yan , Manoranjan Paul

With the development of feed-forward models, the default model for sequence modeling has gradually evolved to replace recurrent networks. Many powerful feed-forward models based on convolutional networks and attention mechanism were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hongyan Hao , Yan Wang , Siqiao Xue , Yudi Xia , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Recent studies on mobile network design have demonstrated the remarkable effectiveness of channel attention (e.g., the Squeeze-and-Excitation attention) for lifting model performance, but they generally neglect the positional information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Qibin Hou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

We propose a novel perspective of the attention mechanism by reinventing it as a memory architecture for neural networks, namely Neural Attention Memory (NAM). NAM is a memory structure that is both readable and writable via differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hyoungwook Nam , Seung Byum Seo