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Self-attention is a useful mechanism to build generative models for language and images. It determines the importance of context elements by comparing each element to the current time step. In this paper, we show that a very lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Felix Wu , Angela Fan , Alexei Baevski , Yann N. Dauphin , Michael Auli

Humans can infer approximate interaction force between objects from only vision information because we already have learned it through experiences. Based on this idea, we propose a recurrent convolutional neural network-based method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hochul Shin , Hyeon Cho , Dongyi Kim , Daekwan Ko , Soochul Lim , Wonjun Hwang

State-of-the-art results on neural machine translation often use attentional sequence-to-sequence models with some form of convolution or recursion. Vaswani et al. (2017) propose a new architecture that avoids recurrence and convolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Karim Ahmed , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

Convolutional Neural Networks have played a significant role in various medical imaging tasks like classification and segmentation. They provide state-of-the-art performance compared to classical image processing algorithms. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Rakshith Sathish , Swanand Khare , Debdoot Sheet

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have drawn great attention in image super-resolution (SR). Recently, visual attention mechanism, which exploits both of the feature importance and contextual cues, has been introduced to image SR and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Huapeng Wu , Zhengxia Zou , Jie Gui , Wen-Jun Zeng , Jieping Ye , Jun Zhang , Hongyi Liu , Zhihui Wei

Traditional point-based image editing methods rely on iterative latent optimization or geometric transformations, which are either inefficient in their processing or fail to capture the semantic relationships within the image. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Biao Yang , Muqi Huang , Yuhui Zhang , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Huishuai Bao , Chuan Li , Feng Shi , Hualei Liu

Current unsupervised image-to-image translation techniques struggle to focus their attention on individual objects without altering the background or the way multiple objects interact within a scene. Motivated by the important role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Youssef A. Mejjati , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Darren Cosker , Kwang In Kim

Super-resolving medical images can help physicians in providing more accurate diagnostics. In many situations, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques capture several scans (modes) during a single…

In recent years, attention mechanisms have significantly enhanced the performance of object detection by focusing on key feature information. However, prevalent methods still encounter difficulties in effectively balancing local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yifan Shao

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 2019-05-22 Masanari Kimura , Masayuki Tanaka

We propose the autofocus convolutional layer for semantic segmentation with the objective of enhancing the capabilities of neural networks for multi-scale processing. Autofocus layers adaptively change the size of the effective receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yao Qin , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Siddharth Ancha , Jay Nanavati , Garrison Cottrell , Antonio Criminisi , Aditya Nori

Top-down attention allows neural networks, both artificial and biological, to focus on the information most relevant for a given task. This is known to enhance performance in visual perception. But it remains unclear how attention brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Freddie Bickford Smith , Brett D Roads , Xiaoliang Luo , Bradley C Love

Attention mechanisms, particularly channel attention, have become highly influential in numerous computer vision tasks. Despite their effectiveness, many existing methods primarily focus on optimizing performance through complex attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ronghui Zhang , Runzong Zou , Yue Zhao , Zirui Zhang , Junzhou Chen , Yue Cao , Chuan Hu , Houbing Song

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are capable of learning robust representation with different regularization methods and activations as convolutional layers are spatially correlated. Based on this property, a large variety of regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Devesh Walawalkar , Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Marios Savvides

Convolution exploits locality for efficiency at a cost of missing long range context. Self-attention has been adopted to augment CNNs with non-local interactions. Recent works prove it possible to stack self-attention layers to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Huiyu Wang , Yukun Zhu , Bradley Green , Hartwig Adam , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Convolutional neural networks model the transformation of the input sensory data at the bottom of a network hierarchy to the semantic information at the top of the visual hierarchy. Feedforward processing is sufficient for some object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

In this paper, we propose a computational efficient end-to-end training deep neural network (CEDNN) model and spatial attention maps based on difference images. Firstly, the difference image is generated by image processing. Then five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jing Chen , Chenhui Wang , Kejun Wang , Meichen Liu

Pretrained vision foundation models deliver strong performance across tasks with limited fine-tuning. However, their Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones impose high inference costs, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Carmelo Scribano , Mohammad Mahdi , Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Yuqian Fu , Giorgia Franchini , Danda Pani Paudel , Marko Bertogna , Luc Van Gool

In this work, we propose a new unsupervised image segmentation approach based on mutual information maximization between different constructed views of the inputs. Taking inspiration from autoregressive generative models that predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami