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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

Aggregating information from features across different layers is an essential operation for dense prediction models. Despite its limited expressiveness, feature concatenation dominates the choice of aggregation operations. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Yung-Hsu Yang , Thomas E. Huang , Min Sun , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Fisher Yu

We propose a learning framework named Feature Fusion Learning (FFL) that efficiently trains a powerful classifier through a fusion module which combines the feature maps generated from parallel neural networks. Specifically, we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jangho Kim , Minsung Hyun , Inseop Chung , Nojun Kwak

Multi-modal medical image fusion is essential for the precise clinical diagnosis and surgical navigation since it can merge the complementary information in multi-modalities into a single image. The quality of the fused image depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xianming Gu , Lihui Wang , Zeyu Deng , Ying Cao , Xingyu Huang , Yue-min Zhu

3D object detection based on LiDAR-camera fusion is becoming an emerging research theme for autonomous driving. However, it has been surprisingly difficult to effectively fuse both modalities without information loss and interference. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guojun Wang , Bin Tian , Yachen Zhang , Long Chen , Dongpu Cao , Jian Wu

Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing ocular and cardiovascular diseases. Although the introduction of U-Net in 2015 by Olaf Ronneberger significantly advanced this field, yet issues like limited training data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Md Tauhidul Islam , Wu Da-Wen , Tang Qing-Qing , Zhao Kai-Yang , Yin Teng , Li Yan-Fei , Shang Wen-Yi , Liu Jing-Yu , Zhang Hai-Xian

3D semantic segmentation is a fundamental building block for several scene understanding applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and AR/VR. Several state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models suffer from the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Anirud Thyagharajan , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Prashant Laddha , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

With recent advances in RGB-D sensing technologies as well as improvements in machine learning and fusion techniques, RGB-D facial recognition has become an active area of research. A novel attention aware method is proposed to fuse two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hardik Uppal , Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

Multi-scale features are of great importance in encoding objects with scale variance in object detection tasks. A common strategy for multi-scale feature extraction is adopting the classic top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Guoyu Yang , Jie Lei , Zhikuan Zhu , Siyu Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Ronghua Liang

The performance of face detectors has been largely improved with the development of convolutional neural network. However, it remains challenging for face detectors to detect tiny, occluded or blurry faces. Besides, most face detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Wanxin Tian , Zixuan Wang , Haifeng Shen , Weihong Deng , Yiping Meng , Binghui Chen , Xiubao Zhang , Yuan Zhao , Xiehe Huang

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

The existing generative adversarial fusion methods generally concatenate source images and extract local features through convolution operation, without considering their global characteristics, which tends to produce an unbalanced result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Zhishe Wang , Wenyu Shao , Yanlin Chen , Jiawei Xu , Xiaoqin Zhang

Feature fusion and similarity computation are two core problems in 3D object tracking, especially for object tracking using sparse and disordered point clouds. Feature fusion could make similarity computing more efficient by including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yubo Cui , Zheng Fang , Jiayao Shan , Zuoxu Gu , Sifan Zhou

In this work, we propose "Residual Attention Network", a convolutional neural network using attention mechanism which can incorporate with state-of-art feed forward network architecture in an end-to-end training fashion. Our Residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fei Wang , Mengqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Shuo Yang , Cheng Li , Honggang Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

In this paper, we propose a novel bidirectional multiscale feature aggregation (BMFA) network with attentional fusion modules for text-independent speaker verification. The feature maps from different stages of the backbone network are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Jiajun Qi , Wu Guo , Bin Gu

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved impressive results in various tasks, but interpreting the internal mechanism is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we exploit a multi-channel attention mechanism in feature space. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Masanari Kimura , Masayuki Tanaka

Geo-localization is a critical task in computer vision. In this work, we cast the geo-localization as a 2D image retrieval task. Current state-of-the-art methods for 2D geo-localization are not robust to locate a scene with drastic scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Liqi Yan , Yiming Cui , Yingjie Chen , Dongfang Liu

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuchan Jie , Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Huafeng Li , Haishu Tan , Feiping Nie