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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are more suitable, indeed. However, fixed kernel sizes make traditional CNN too specific, neither flexible nor conducive to feature learning, thus impacting on the classification accuracy. The convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Muhammad Ahmad , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Xin Wu

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yue Lu , Yun Zhou , Zhuqing Jiang , Xiaoqiang Guo , Zixuan Yang

We introduce a new architecture called ChoiceNet where each layer of the network is highly connected with skip connections and channelwise concatenations. This enables the network to alleviate the problem of vanishing gradients, reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Farshid Rayhan , Aphrodite Galata , Timothy F. Cootes

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

Medical image segmentation underpins computer-aided diagnosis and therapy by supporting clinical diagnosis, preoperative planning, and disease monitoring. While U-Net style convolutional neural networks perform well due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jun Ding , Shang Gao

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has revolutionized computer vision, but training very deep networks has been challenging due to the vanishing gradient problem. This paper explores Residual Networks (ResNet), introduced by He et al.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xingyu Liu , Kun Ming Goh

Convolutional neural networks have enabled major progresses in addressing pixel-level prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal prediction and so on, benefiting from their powerful capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Guanglei Yang , Paolo Rota , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Dan Xu , Mingli Ding , Elisa Ricci

Many imaging tasks require global information about all pixels in an image. Conventional bottom-up classification networks globalize information by decreasing resolution; features are pooled and downsampled into a single output. But for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sohil Shah , Pallabi Ghosh , Larry S Davis , Tom Goldstein

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is critical for the effective analysis and interpretation of hyperspectral data. However, simultaneously modeling global and local features is rarely explored to enhance HSI denoising. In this letter, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shuai Hu , Feng Gao , Xiaowei Zhou , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

Transformer-based architectures have demonstrated remarkable success across various domains, but their deployment on edge devices remains challenging due to high memory and computational demands. In this paper, we introduce a novel Reuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Seul-Ki Yeom , Tae-Ho Kim

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown the ability to improve scene parsing through capturing long-range dependencies among image units. In this paper, we propose dense RNNs for scene labeling by exploring various long-range semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Heng Fan , Peng Chu , Longin Jan Latecki , Haibin Ling

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Accurately segmenting blood vessels in retinal fundus images is crucial in the early screening, diagnosing, and evaluating some ocular diseases, yet it poses a nontrivial uncertainty for the segmentation task due to various factors such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Yuanyuan Peng , Pengpeng Luan , Zixu Zhang

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

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

This paper introduces an extremely efficient CNN architecture named DFANet for semantic segmentation under resource constraints. Our proposed network starts from a single lightweight backbone and aggregates discriminative features through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Hanchao Li , Pengfei Xiong , Haoqiang Fan , Jian Sun