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Since their introduction the Trasformer architectures emerged as the dominating architectures for both natural language processing and, more recently, computer vision applications. An intrinsic limitation of this family of "fully-attentive"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Carmelo Scribano , Giorgia Franchini , Marco Prato , Marko Bertogna

We propose contextual convolution (CoConv) for visual recognition. CoConv is a direct replacement of the standard convolution, which is the core component of convolutional neural networks. CoConv is implicitly equipped with the capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Mariana Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Driving in a complex urban environment is a difficult task that requires a complex decision policy. In order to make informed decisions, one needs to gain an understanding of the long-range context and the importance of other vehicles. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

The Vision Transformer (ViT) leverages the Transformer's encoder to capture global information by dividing images into patches and achieves superior performance across various computer vision tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Tianxiao Zhang , Wenju Xu , Bo Luo , Guanghui Wang

We present Voxel Transformer (VoTr), a novel and effective voxel-based Transformer backbone for 3D object detection from point clouds. Conventional 3D convolutional backbones in voxel-based 3D detectors cannot efficiently capture large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jiageng Mao , Yujing Xue , Minzhe Niu , Haoyue Bai , Jiashi Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu

We present SegNeXt, a simple convolutional network architecture for semantic segmentation. Recent transformer-based models have dominated the field of semantic segmentation due to the efficiency of self-attention in encoding spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Meng-Hao Guo , Cheng-Ze Lu , Qibin Hou , Zhengning Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shi-Min Hu

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

The Transformer architecture has gained significant popularity in computer vision tasks due to its capacity to generalize and capture long-range dependencies. This characteristic makes it well-suited for generating spatiotemporal tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Rachid Reda Dokkar , Faten Chaieb , Hassen Drira , Arezki Aberkane

Recent video recognition models utilize Transformer models for long-range spatio-temporal context modeling. Video transformer designs are based on self-attention that can model global context at a high computational cost. In comparison,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Syed Talal Wasim , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Transformer attention architectures, similar to those developed for natural language processing, have recently proved efficient also in vision, either in conjunction with or as a replacement for convolutional layers. Typically, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Rufin VanRullen , Andrea Alamia

Entropy modeling is a key component for high-performance image compression algorithms. Recent developments in autoregressive context modeling helped learning-based methods to surpass their classical counterparts. However, the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 A. Burakhan Koyuncu , Han Gao , Atanas Boev , Georgii Gaikov , Elena Alshina , Eckehard Steinbach

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often have difficulty recognizing uncommon words, that appear infrequently in the training data. One promising method, to improve the recognition accuracy on such rare words, is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Feng-Ju Chang , Jing Liu , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Maurizio Omologo , Ariya Rastrow , Siegfried Kunzmann

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

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Poojan Oza , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Standard transformer-based language models, while powerful for general text, often struggle with the fine-grained syntax and entity relationships in complex technical, engineering documents. To address this, we propose the Contextual Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Karan Reddy , Mayukha Pal

Vision-based Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) has gained much attention due to its widespread applications in various 3D perception tasks. Existing sparse-to-dense approaches typically employ shared context-independent queries across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zhu Yu , Runmin Zhang , Jiacheng Ying , Junchen Yu , Xiaohai Hu , Lun Luo , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Due to the depth degradation effect in residual connections, many efficient Vision Transformers models that rely on stacking layers for information exchange often fail to form sufficient information mixing, leading to unnatural visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Dai Shi

We introduce a new attention mechanism, dubbed structural self-attention (StructSA), that leverages rich correlation patterns naturally emerging in key-query interactions of attention. StructSA generates attention maps by recognizing…

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