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We present an attention-based model for recognizing multiple objects in images. The proposed model is a deep recurrent neural network trained with reinforcement learning to attend to the most relevant regions of the input image. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Jimmy Ba , Volodymyr Mnih , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

Vehicle instance retrieval often requires one to recognize the fine-grained visual differences between vehicles. Besides the holistic appearance of vehicles which is easily affected by the viewpoint variation and distortion, vehicle parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xinyu Zhang , Rufeng Zhang , Jiewei Cao , Dong Gong , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

Rotation-invariant recognition of shapes is a common challenge in computer vision. Recent approaches have significantly improved the accuracy of rotation-invariant recognition by encoding the rotational invariance of shapes as hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yanjie Xu , Handing Xu , Tianmu Wang , Yaguan Li , Yunzhi Chen , Zhenguo Nie

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) face inherent challenges in image matting, particularly in preserving fine structural details. ViTs, with their global receptive field enabled by the self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingru Yang , Chengzhi Cao , Chentianye Xu , Zhongwei Xie , Kaixiang Huang , Yang Zhou , Shengfeng He

Learning subtle yet discriminative features (e.g., beak and eyes for a bird) plays a significant role in fine-grained image recognition. Existing attention-based approaches localize and amplify significant parts to learn fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Heliang Zheng , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we introduce a novel spatial attention module that can be easily integrated to any convolutional network. This module guides the model to pay attention to the most discriminative part of an image. This enables the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Hai-Vy Nguyen , Fabrice Gamboa , Sixin Zhang , Reda Chhaibi , Serge Gratton , Thierry Giaccone

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to learn object localizer solely by using image-level labels. The convolution neural network (CNN) based techniques often result in highlighting the most discriminative part of objects while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhiwei Chen , Changan Wang , Yabiao Wang , Guannan Jiang , Yunhang Shen , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Wei Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

The human brain uses selective attention to filter perceptual input so that only the components that are useful for behaviour are processed using its limited computational resources. We focus on one particular form of visual attention known…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-31 Sam Blakeman , Denis Mareschal

In Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRSs), Transformer models have demonstrated remarkable performance but face computational and memory cost challenges, especially when modeling long-term user behavior sequences. Due to its quadratic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Juntao Hu , Wei Zhou , Haini Cai , Xiao Du , Huayi Shen , Junhao Wen

Motivated by the desire to exploit patterns shared across classes, we present a simple yet effective class-specific memory module for fine-grained feature learning. The memory module stores the prototypical feature representation for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Weijian Deng , Joshua Marsh , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Multimodal 3D object detection has garnered considerable interest in autonomous driving. However, multimodal detectors suffer from dimension mismatches that derive from fusing 3D points with 2D pixels coarsely, which leads to sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Guoxin Zhang , Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Zhonghong Ou

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is an important and challenging task. Due to the high training efficiency, end-to-end solutions for WSSS have received increasing attention from the community. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lixiang Ru , Yibing Zhan , Baosheng Yu , Bo Du

The paradigm of Transformers using the self-attention mechanism has manifested its advantage in learning graph-structured data. Yet, Graph Transformers are capable of modeling full range dependencies but are often deficient in extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Minhong Zhu , Zhenhao Zhao , Weiran Cai

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

Due to the impressive zero-shot capabilities, pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP), have attracted widespread attention and adoption across various domains. Nonetheless, CLIP has been observed to be susceptible to adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Lu Yu , Haiyang Zhang , Changsheng Xu

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects by only utilizing image-level labels. Class activation maps (CAMs) are the commonly used features to achieve WSOL. However, previous CAM-based methods did not take full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Qin Wang , Zhen Li , Sheng Wang , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui

How do humans recognize an object in a piece of video? Due to the deteriorated quality of single frame, it may be hard for people to identify an occluded object in this frame by just utilizing information within one image. We argue that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Yihong Chen , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Liwei Wang

We analyzed the network structure of real-time object detection models and found that the features in the feature concatenation stage are very rich. Applying an attention module here can effectively improve the detection accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Weisheng Li , Lin Huang