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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 clinical applications, neural networks must focus on and highlight the most important parts of an input image. Soft-Attention mechanism enables a neural network toachieve this goal. This paper investigates the effectiveness of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Soumyya Kanti Datta , Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh , Sargur N. Srihari , Mingchen Gao

This paper introduces a generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to graphs with irregular linkage structures, especially heterogeneous graphs with typed nodes and schemas. We propose a novel spatial convolution operation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Aravind Sankar , Xinyang Zhang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

We present a novel Recurrent Graph Network (RGN) approach for predicting discrete marked event sequences by learning the underlying complex stochastic process. Using the framework of Point Processes, we interpret a marked discrete event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Saurabh Dash , Xueyuan She , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

It is well known that attention mechanisms can effectively improve the performance of many CNNs including object detectors. Instead of refining feature maps prevalently, we reduce the prohibitive computational complexity by a novel attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Hefei Ling , Yangyang Qin , Li Zhang , Yuxuan Shi , Ping Li

Automatic event detection from time series signals has wide applications, such as abnormal event detection in video surveillance and event detection in geophysical data. Traditional detection methods detect events primarily by the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yue Wu , Youzuo Lin , Zheng Zhou , David Chas Bolton , Ji Liu , Paul Johnson

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

Event recognition in still images is an intriguing problem and has potential for real applications. This paper addresses the problem of event recognition by proposing a convolutional neural network that exploits knowledge of objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Limin Wang , Zhe Wang , Yu Qiao , Luc Van Gool

As humans we possess an intuitive ability for navigation which we master through years of practice; however existing approaches to model this trait for diverse tasks including monitoring pedestrian flow and detecting abnormal events have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Crash events identification and prediction plays a vital role in understanding safety conditions for transportation systems. While existing systems use traffic parameters correlated with crash data to classify and train these models, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Zubayer Islam , Mohamed Abdel-Aty

In the field of computational physics and material science, the efficient sampling of rare events occurring at atomic scale is crucial. It aids in understanding mechanisms behind a wide range of important phenomena, including protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xinru Hua , Rasool Ahmad , Jose Blanchet , Wei Cai

In NLP, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have benefited less than recurrent neural networks (RNNs) from attention mechanisms. We hypothesize that this is because the attention in CNNs has been mainly implemented as attentive pooling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Wenpeng Yin , Hinrich Schütze

In many sports, it is useful to analyse video of an athlete in competition for training purposes. In swimming, stroke rate is a common metric used by coaches; requiring a laborious labelling of each individual stroke. We show that using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Brandon Victor , Zhen He , Stuart Morgan , Dino Miniutti

Sound events often occur in unstructured environments where they exhibit wide variations in their frequency content and temporal structure. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are able to extract higher level features that are invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Emre Çakır , Giambattista Parascandolo , Toni Heittola , Heikki Huttunen , Tuomas Virtanen

Over the past few years, a significant progress has been made in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based image recognition. This is mainly due to the strong ability of such networks in mining discriminative object pose and parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

Earth structural heterogeneities have a remarkable role in the petroleum economy for both exploration and production projects. Automatic detection of detailed structural heterogeneities is challenging when considering modern machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Luiz Schirmer , Guilherme Schardong , Vinícius da Silva , Rogério Santos , Hélio Lopes

Many natural language processing tasks solely rely on sparse dependencies between a few tokens in a sentence. Soft attention mechanisms show promising performance in modeling local/global dependencies by soft probabilities between every two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Sen Wang , Chengqi Zhang

Although deep neural networks generally have fixed network structures, the concept of dynamic mechanism has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Attention mechanisms compute input-dependent dynamic attention weights for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Lanqing Xue , Xiaopeng Li , Nevin L. Zhang

This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Carola Figueroa Flores , Abel Gonzalez-García , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Event cameras offer high temporal resolution and dynamic range with minimal motion blur, making them promising for robust object detection. While Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware are often considered for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Soikat Hasan Ahmed , Jan Finkbeiner , Emre Neftci