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In this paper, we proposed an end-to-end realtime global attention neural network (RGANet) for the challenging task of semantic segmentation. Different from the encoding strategy deployed by self-attention paradigms, the proposed global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xi Mo , Xiangyu Chen

The attention mechanism is one of the most important priori knowledge to enhance convolutional neural networks. Most attention mechanisms are bound to the convolutional layer and use local or global contextual information to recalibrate the…

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

With parallelizable attention networks, the neural Transformer is very fast to train. However, due to the auto-regressive architecture and self-attention in the decoder, the decoding procedure becomes slow. To alleviate this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Biao Zhang , Deyi Xiong , Jinsong Su

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to extracting speaker embeddings with significant success in speaker verification. Incorporating the attention mechanism has shown to be effective in improving the model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jingyu Li , Yusheng Tian , Tan Lee

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are capable of modeling the temporal dynamics of complex sequential information. However, the structures of existing RNN neurons mainly focus on controlling the contributions of current and historical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Pengfei Zhang , Jianru Xue , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhanning Gao , Nanning Zheng

Vision Transformers have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention responses in Transformers, we empirically observe two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xu Ma , Huan Wang , Can Qin , Kunpeng Li , Xingchen Zhao , Jie Fu , Yun Fu

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Convolutional neural networks have allowed remarkable advances in single image super-resolution (SISR) over the last decade. Among recent advances in SISR, attention mechanisms are crucial for high-performance SR models. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Zhi Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be state-of-the-art models for visual cortical neurons. Cortical neurons in the primary visual cortex are sensitive to contextual information mediated by extensive horizontal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Isaac Lin , Tianye Wang , Shang Gao , Shiming Tang , Tai Sing Lee

Convolutions are a fundamental building block of modern computer vision systems. Recent approaches have argued for going beyond convolutions in order to capture long-range dependencies. These efforts focus on augmenting convolutional models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Prajit Ramachandran , Niki Parmar , Ashish Vaswani , Irwan Bello , Anselm Levskaya , Jonathon Shlens

Medical data analysis often combines both imaging and tabular data processing using machine learning algorithms. While previous studies have investigated the impact of attention mechanisms on deep learning models, few have explored…

Deep learning technology has made great progress in multi-view 3D reconstruction tasks. At present, most mainstream solutions establish the mapping between views and shape of an object by assembling the networks of 2D encoder and 3D decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zhenwei Zhu , Liying Yang , Xuxin Lin , Chaohao Jiang , Ning Li , Lin Yang , Yanyan Liang

We present graph attention networks (GATs), novel neural network architectures that operate on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-06 Petar Veličković , Guillem Cucurull , Arantxa Casanova , Adriana Romero , Pietro Liò , Yoshua Bengio

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

Spatial attention has been introduced to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving both their performance and interpretability in visual tasks including image classification. The essence of the spatial attention is to learn a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Linchuan Xu , Jun Huang , Atsushi Nitanda , Ryo Asaoka , Kenji Yamanishi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengcheng Sun , Chenhao Li , Xiang Lin , Tianji Zheng , Fanrong Meng , Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

This paper introduces a convolutional recurrent network with attention for speech command recognition. Attention models are powerful tools to improve performance on natural language, image captioning and speech tasks. The proposed model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Douglas Coimbra de Andrade , Sabato Leo , Martin Loesener Da Silva Viana , Christoph Bernkopf

Human visual system can selectively attend to parts of a scene for quick perception, a biological mechanism known as Human attention. Inspired by this, recent deep learning models encode attention mechanisms to focus on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiuxia Lai , Salman Khan , Yongwei Nie , Jianbing Shen , Hanqiu Sun , Ling Shao

Attention mechanism of late has been quite popular in the computer vision community. A lot of work has been done to improve the performance of the network, although almost always it results in increased computational complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar