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Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zhu Baozhou , Peter Hofstee , Jinho Lee , Zaid Al-Ars

Phoneme recognition is a very important part of speech recognition that requires the ability to extract phonetic features from multiple frames. In this paper, we compare and analyze CNN, RNN, Transformer, and Conformer models using phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Kyuhong Shim , Wonyong Sung

Neural networks for visual content understanding have recently evolved from convolutional ones (CNNs) to transformers. The prior (CNN) relies on small-windowed kernels to capture the regional clues, demonstrating solid local expressiveness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zixuan Su , Hao Zhang , Jingjing Chen , Lei Pang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu-Gang Jiang

Transformers have emerged as viable alternatives to convolutional neural networks owing to their ability to learn non-local region relationships in the spatial domain. The self-attention mechanism of the transformer enables transformers to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Rahul G. S. , Sriprabha Ramnarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Keerthi Ram , Preejith S. P , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Convolutional neural networks typically encode an input image into a series of intermediate features with decreasing resolutions. While this structure is suited to classification tasks, it does not perform well for tasks requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xianzhi Du , Tsung-Yi Lin , Pengchong Jin , Golnaz Ghiasi , Mingxing Tan , Yin Cui , Quoc V. Le , Xiaodan Song

We propose a novel approach to image classification inspired by complex nonlinear biological visual processing, whereby classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equipped with learnable higher-order convolutions. Our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Simone Azeglio , Olivier Marre , Peter Neri , Ulisse Ferrari

Recently, deep learning-based models have exhibited remarkable performance for image manipulation detection. However, most of them suffer from poor universality of handcrafted or predetermined features. Meanwhile, they only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Yang , Huizhou Li , Fangting Lin , Bin Jiang , Hao Zhao

In this work, we introduce a Denser Feature Network (DenserNet) for visual localization. Our work provides three principal contributions. First, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture which aggregates feature maps at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dongfang Liu , Yiming Cui , Liqi Yan , Christos Mousas , Baijian Yang , Yingjie Chen

Recognizing facial expressions from static images or video sequences is a widely studied but still challenging problem. The recent progresses obtained by deep neural architectures, or by ensembles of heterogeneous models, have shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Lisa Graziani , Stefano Melacci , Marco Gori

Self-attention has the promise of improving computer vision systems due to parameter-independent scaling of receptive fields and content-dependent interactions, in contrast to parameter-dependent scaling and content-independent interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Vaswani , Prajit Ramachandran , Aravind Srinivas , Niki Parmar , Blake Hechtman , Jonathon Shlens

Image search can be tackled using deep features from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The feature map from the last convolutional layer of a CNN encodes descriptive information from which a discriminative global descriptor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 J. I. Forcen , Miguel Pagola , Edurne Barrenechea , Humberto Bustince

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful models that have achieved excellent performance on difficult computer vision tasks. Although CNNs perform well whenever large labeled training samples are available, they work badly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Zhouyong Liu , Shun Luo , Wubin Li , Jingben Lu , Yufan Wu , Shilei Sun , Chunguo Li , Luxi Yang

In the field of medical CT image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the dominant technique.Encoder-decoder CNNs utilise locality for efficiency, but they cannot simulate distant pixel interactions properly.Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hongyang He , Feng Ziliang , Yuanhang Zheng , Shudong Huang , HaoBing Gao

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) based tracking approaches have shown favorable performance in recent benchmarks. Nonetheless, the chosen CNN features are always pre-trained in different tasks and individual components in tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zheng Zhu , Wei Zou , Guan Huang , Dalong Du , Chang Huang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of artificial neural networks widely used in computer vision tasks. Most CNNs achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. In addition to increasing the depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Junyi An , Fengshan Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

In this paper, we propose a method using the fusion of CNN and transformer structure to improve image classification performance. In the case of CNN, information about a local area on an image can be extracted well, but there is a limit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Keong Hun Choi , Jin Woo Kim , Yao Wang , Jong Eun Ha

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown its advantages over the convolutional neural network (CNN) with its ability to capture global long-range dependencies for visual representation learning. Besides ViT, contrastive learning is another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hua-Bao Ling , Bowen Zhu , Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Priyanka Mudgal , Feng Liu