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In this paper, we propose a novel approach that learns to sequentially attend to different Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) layers (i.e., ``what'' feature abstraction to attend to) and different spatial locations of the selected feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Tony Joseph , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Faisal Z. Qureshi

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy for convolutional neural network(CNN) named Feature Mining, that aims to strengthen the network's learning of the local feature. Through experiments, we find that semantic contained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Tianshu Xie , Xuan Cheng , Xiaomin Wang , Minghui Liu , Jiali Deng , Ming Liu

The apparent ``black box'' nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where explainability is essential. This paper presents TAME (Trainable Attention Mechanism for Explanations), a method for generating explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mariano Ntrougkas , Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Attention mechanism has demonstrated great potential in fine-grained visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a counterfactual attention learning method to learn more effective attention based on causal inference. Unlike most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Guangyi Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Attention-based graph neural networks have made great progress in feature matching learning. However, insight of how attention mechanism works for feature matching is lacked in the literature. In this paper, we rethink cross- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yuxin Deng , Jiayi Ma

The performance of single image super-resolution has achieved significant improvement by utilizing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The features in deep CNN contain different types of information which make different contributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Yanting Hu , Jie Li , Yuanfei Huang , Xinbo Gao

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Accurate beam prediction is essential for maintaining reliable links and high spectral efficiency in dynamic low-altitude wireless networks. However, existing approaches often fail to capture the deep correlations across heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Xiaotong Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Weijie Yuan , Ziye Jia , Heng Liu , Chengwen Xing

The research explores the utilization of a deep learning model employing an attention mechanism in medical text mining. It targets the challenge of analyzing unstructured text information within medical data. This research seeks to enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lingxi Xiao , Muqing Li , Yinqiu Feng , Meiqi Wang , Ziyi Zhu , Zexi Chen

Convolutional neural network (CNN) modules are widely being used to build high-end speech enhancement neural models. However, the feature extraction power of vanilla CNN modules has been limited by the dimensionality constraint of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Muhammed PV Shifas , Santelli Claudio , Vassilis Tsiaras , Yannis Stylianou

Neural Additive Models (NAMs) have recently demonstrated promising predictive performance while maintaining interpretability. However, their capacity is limited to capturing only first-order feature interactions, which restricts their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Minkyu Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Jinho Kim

Decomposing knowledge into interchangeable pieces promises a generalization advantage when there are changes in distribution. A learning agent interacting with its environment is likely to be faced with situations requiring novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kanika Madan , Nan Rosemary Ke , Anirudh Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Yoshua Bengio

Instance retrieval requires one to search for images that contain a particular object within a large corpus. Recent studies show that using image features generated by pooling convolutional layer feature maps (CFMs) of a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Zi Huang , Chunhua Shen , Heng Tao Shen

Human emotion recognition is an active research area in artificial intelligence and has made substantial progress over the past few years. Many recent works mainly focus on facial regions to infer human affection, while the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Anh Nguyen , Bac Le

Within Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), the convolution operations are good at extracting local features but experience difficulty to capture global representations. Within visual transformer, the cascaded self-attention modules can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhiliang Peng , Wei Huang , Shanzhi Gu , Lingxi Xie , Yaowei Wang , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Knowledge distillation is an attractive approach for learning compact deep neural networks, which learns a lightweight student model by distilling knowledge from a complex teacher model. Attention-based knowledge distillation is a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Cuong Pham , Van-Anh Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung , Gustavo Carneiro , Thanh-Toan Do

We propose a new approach to determine correspondences between image pairs in the wild under large changes in illumination, viewpoint, context, and material. While other approaches find correspondences between pairs of images by treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Olivia Wiles , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Andrew Zisserman

Deep neural networks face several challenges in hyperspectral image classification, including insufficient utilization of joint spatial-spectral information, gradient vanishing with increasing depth, and overfitting. To enhance feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Guandong Li , Mengxia Ye

Recently, large pre-trained neural language models have attained remarkable performance on many downstream natural language processing (NLP) applications via fine-tuning. In this paper, we target at how to further improve the token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mengyuan Zhou , Jian Ma , Haiqin Yang , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo