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Attention mechanisms are widely used to dramatically improve deep learning model performance in various fields. However, their general ability to improve the performance of physiological signal deep learning model is immature. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Seong-A Park , Hyung-Chul Lee , Chul-Woo Jung , Hyun-Lim Yang

Deep neural networks need to make robust inference in the presence of occlusion, background clutter, pose and viewpoint variations -- to name a few -- when the task of person re-identification is considered. Attention mechanisms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jieming Zhou , Soumava Kumar Roy , Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

The so-called "attention" is an efficient mechanism to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks. It uses contextual information to recalibrate the input to strengthen the propagation of informative features. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yu Xue , Ziming Yuan , Ferrante Neri

The advent of Transformers marked a significant breakthrough in sequence modelling, providing a highly performant architecture capable of leveraging GPU parallelism. However, Transformers are computationally expensive at inference time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Yoshua Bengio , Greg Mori

Existing state-of-the-art disparity estimation works mostly leverage the 4D concatenation volume and construct a very deep 3D convolution neural network (CNN) for disparity regression, which is inefficient due to the high memory consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Songyan Zhang , Zhicheng Wang , Qiang Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Gang Wei , Xiaowen Chu

Transformer attention architectures, similar to those developed for natural language processing, have recently proved efficient also in vision, either in conjunction with or as a replacement for convolutional layers. Typically, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Rufin VanRullen , Andrea Alamia

The self-attention mechanism has emerged as a critical component for improving the performance of various backbone neural networks. However, current mainstream approaches individually incorporate newly designed self-attention modules (SAMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhongzhan Huang , Senwei Liang , Mingfu Liang , Liang Lin

More and more empirical and theoretical evidence shows that deepening neural networks can effectively improve their performance under suitable training settings. However, deepening the backbone of neural networks will inevitably and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Zhongzhan Huang

A novel ``edge attention-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)'' is proposed in this research for object classification task. With the advent of advanced computing technology, CNN models have achieved to remarkable success, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Santanu Roy , Ashvath Suresh , Archit Gupta

Attention modules for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are an effective method to enhance performance on multiple computer-vision tasks. While existing methods appropriately model channel-, spatial- and self-attention, they primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shantanu Jaiswal , Basura Fernando , Cheston Tan

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with attention have been successfully applied for learning visual feature matching. However, current methods learn with complete graphs, resulting in a quadratic complexity in the number of features. Motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yan Shi , Jun-Xiong Cai , Yoli Shavit , Tai-Jiang Mu , Wensen Feng , Kai Zhang

Attention Mechanism is a widely used method for improving the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on computer vision tasks. Despite its pervasiveness, we have a poor understanding of what its effectiveness stems from. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiang Ye , Zihang He , Heng Wang , Yong Li

Efficiently modeling spatial-temporal information in videos is crucial for action recognition. To achieve this goal, state-of-the-art methods typically employ the convolution operator and the dense interaction modules such as non-local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yuan Tian , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Guodong Guo , Zhiyong Gao

Transformer-based deep learning models are increasingly deployed on energy, and DRAM bandwidth constrained devices such as laptops and gaming consoles, which presents significant challenges in meeting the latency requirements of the models.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aadesh Deshmukh , Venkata Yaswanth Raparti , Samuel Hsu

The performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be improved by adjusting the interrelationship between channels with attention mechanism. However, attention mechanism in recent advance has not fully utilized spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 YuTao Shen , Ying Wen

Expandable networks have demonstrated their advantages in dealing with catastrophic forgetting problem in incremental learning. Considering that different tasks may need different structures, recent methods design dynamic structures adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Guimei Cao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yunlu Xu , Duo Li , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

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

Recurrent neural nets (RNN) and convolutional neural nets (CNN) are widely used on NLP tasks to capture the long-term and local dependencies, respectively. Attention mechanisms have recently attracted enormous interest due to their highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

Recent learning-based image classification and speech recognition approaches make extensive use of attention mechanisms to achieve state-of-the-art recognition power, which demonstrates the effectiveness of attention mechanisms. Motivated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Shangao Lin , Yuan Zeng , Yi Gong