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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Cam Le , Lam Pham , Nghia NVN , Truong Nguyen , Le Hong Trang

In state-of-the-art deep neural networks, both feature normalization and feature attention have become ubiquitous. % with significant performance improvement shown in a vast amount of tasks. They are usually studied as separate modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xilai Li , Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

The increased availability and accuracy of eye-gaze tracking technology has sparked attention-related research in psychology, neuroscience, and, more recently, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The attention mechanism in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Hongzhi Zhu , Septimiu Salcudean , Robert Rohling

People deploy top-down, goal-directed attention to accomplish tasks, such as finding lost keys. By tuning the visual system to relevant information sources, object recognition can become more efficient (a benefit) and more biased toward the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoliang Luo , Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

In this paper, we present novel sharp attention networks by adaptively sampling feature maps from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for person re-identification (re-ID) problem. Due to the introduction of sampling-based attention models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Chen Shen , Guo-Jun Qi , Rongxin Jiang , Zhongming Jin , Hongwei Yong , Yaowu Chen , Xian-Sheng Hua

Although deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved significant accuracy in skin lesion classification comparable or even superior to those of dermatologists, practical implementation of these models for skin cancer screening…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Shuwei Shen , Mengjuan Xu , Fan Zhang , Pengfei Shao , Honghong Liu , Liang Xu , Chi Zhang , Peng Liu , Zhihong Zhang , Peng Yao , Ronald X. Xu

We introduced a {\it working memory} augmented adaptive controller in our recent work. The controller uses attention to read from and write to the working memory. Attention allows the controller to read specific information that is relevant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Deepan Muthirayan , Scott Nivison , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Accurate breast lesion risk estimation can significantly reduce unnecessary biopsies and help doctors decide optimal treatment plans. Most existing computer-aided systems rely solely on mammogram features to classify breast lesions. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Hung Q. Vo , Pengyu Yuan , Tiancheng He , Stephen T. C. Wong , Hien V. Nguyen

In the context of medical imaging and machine learning, one of the most pressing challenges is the effective adaptation of pre-trained models to specialized medical contexts. Despite the availability of advanced pre-trained models, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ana Davila , Jacinto Colan , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl

A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in image classification and gives better classification accuracy than the other techniques. The softmax cross-entropy loss function is often used for classification tasks. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical image analysis that automatically learns to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs implicitly learn to suppress irrelevant regions in an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jo Schlemper , Ozan Oktay , Michiel Schaap , Mattias Heinrich , Bernhard Kainz , Ben Glocker , Daniel Rueckert

This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Carola Figueroa Flores , Abel Gonzalez-García , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Deep convolutional neural networks perform better on images containing spatially invariant degradations, also known as synthetic degradations; however, their performance is limited on real-degraded photographs and requires multiple-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes , Lars Petersson

Monitoring the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent Taxol at the cellular level is critical for both clinical evaluation and biomedical research. However, existing detection methods require specialized equipment, skilled personnel, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sean Fletcher , Gabby Scott , Douglas Currie , Xin Zhang , Yuqi Song , Bruce MacLeod

Transfer Learning enables Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to acquire knowledge from a source domain and transfer it to a target domain, where collecting large-scale annotated examples is time-consuming and expensive. Conventionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Debapriya Tula , Sravan Kumar Vinakota , Shiv Ram Dubey

Deep neural network models have recently draw lots of attention, as it consistently produce impressive results in many computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, etc. However, interpreting such model and show the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Shipeng Xie , Da Chen , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

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

Automatic classification of breast cancer in histopathology images is crucial for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, classification methods based on the ResNet architecture have gained prominence due to their…

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