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In this paper, we propose a method for home activity monitoring. We demonstrate our model on dataset of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2018 Challenge Task 5. This task aims to classify multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yu-Han Shen , Ke-Xin He , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a common paradigm that seeks to improve the generalization performance of task learning by training related tasks simultaneously. However, it is still a challenging problem to search the flexible and accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Yingru Liu , Xuewen Yang , Dongliang Xie , Xin Wang , Li Shen , Haozhi Huang , Niranjan Balasubramanian

We propose the joint graph attention neural network (GAT), clustering with adaptive neighbors (CAN) and probabilistic graphical model for dynamic power flow analysis and fault characteristics. In fact, computational efficiency is the main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tan Le , Van Le

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhibo Yang , Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Ruoyu Xue , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the non-invasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). This work aims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Paria Jeihouni , Omid Dehzangi , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Dabouei , Ali Rezai , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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

Attention mechanism of late has been quite popular in the computer vision community. A lot of work has been done to improve the performance of the network, although almost always it results in increased computational complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar

A general procedure for introducing parametric, learned, nonlinearity into activation functions is found to enhance the accuracy of representative neural networks without requiring significant additional computational resources. Examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 David Yevick

Non-parallel training is a difficult but essential task for DNN-based speech enhancement methods, for the lack of adequate noisy and paired clean speech corpus in many real scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Guochen Yu , Yutian Wang , Chengshi Zheng , Hui Wang , Qin Zhang

Intrigued by the inherent ability of the human visual system to identify salient regions in complex scenes, attention mechanisms have been seamlessly integrated into various Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Building upon this paradigm, Vision…

Inspired by biological neurons, the activation functions play an essential part in the learning process of any artificial neural network commonly used in many real-world problems. Various activation functions have been proposed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ameya D. Jagtap , George Em Karniadakis

Many activation functions have been proposed in the past, but selecting an adequate one requires trial and error. We propose a new methodology of designing activation functions within a neural network at each layer. We call this technique…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Mark Harmon , Diego Klabjan

Recurrent neural networks with differentiable attention mechanisms have had success in generative and classification tasks. We show that the classification performance of such models can be enhanced by guiding a randomly initialized model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Jack Lindsey

Attention mechanism plays a more and more important role in point cloud analysis and channel attention is one of the hotspots. With so much channel information, it is difficult for neural networks to screen useful channel information. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Guoquan Xu , Hezhi Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jianwei Wan , Ke Xu , Yanxin Ma

Dot-product attention has wide applications in computer vision and natural language processing. However, its memory and computational costs grow quadratically with the input size. Such growth prohibits its application on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhuoran Shen , Mingyuan Zhang , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

Self-supervised Audio Transformers (SAT) enable great success in many downstream speech applications like ASR, but how they work has not been widely explored yet. In this work, we present multiple strategies for the analysis of attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Shu-wen Yang , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

We present SAM, a biologically-plausible selective attention-driven modulation approach to enhance classification models in a continual learning setting. Inspired by neurophysiological evidence that the primary visual cortex does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Giovanni Bellitto , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Matteo Pennisi , Matteo Boschini , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation invariant and would be valuable for directing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Miltiadis Allamanis , Hao Peng , Charles Sutton

Video action analysis is a foundational technology within the realm of intelligent video comprehension, particularly concerning its application in Internet of Things(IoT). However, existing methodologies overlook feature semantics in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Cong Zhao , Jing Huang , Siyan Guo , Shusen Yang

Activation functions (AF) are necessary components of neural networks that allow approximation of functions, but AFs in current use are usually simple monotonically increasing functions. In this paper, we propose trainable compound AF (TCA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Paul M. Baggenstoss