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Scene recognition is currently one of the top-challenging research fields in computer vision. This may be due to the ambiguity between classes: images of several scene classes may share similar objects, which causes confusion among them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Alejandro López-Cifuentes , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Jesús Bescós , Álvaro García-Martín

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Manjin Kim , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Cordelia Schmid , Minsu Cho

Interactive segmentation algorithms based on click points have garnered significant attention from researchers in recent years. However, existing studies typically use sparse click maps as model inputs to segment specific target objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Long Xu , Shanghong Li , Yongquan Chen , Junkang Chen , Rui Huang , Feng Wu

Human vision is highly adaptive, efficiently sampling intricate environments by sequentially fixating on task-relevant regions. In contrast, prevailing machine vision models passively process entire scenes at once, resulting in excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yulin Wang , Yang Yue , Yang Yue , Huanqian Wang , Haojun Jiang , Yizeng Han , Zanlin Ni , Yifan Pu , Minglei Shi , Rui Lu , Qisen Yang , Andrew Zhao , Zhuofan Xia , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Visual attention has shown usefulness in image captioning, with the goal of enabling a caption model to selectively focus on regions of interest. Existing models typically rely on top-down language information and learn attention implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao

We consider the problem of visually explaining similarity models, i.e., explaining why a model predicts two images to be similar in addition to producing a scalar score. While much recent work in visual model interpretability has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Richard J. Radke , Ziyan Wu

Attention Mechanism is a widely used method for improving the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on computer vision tasks. Despite its pervasiveness, we have a poor understanding of what its effectiveness stems from. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiang Ye , Zihang He , Heng Wang , Yong Li

The current article shows how concepts from the areas of random walks, Markov chains, complex networks and image analysis can be naturally combined in order to provide a unified and biologically plausible model relating saliency and visual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-07-04 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

A key concern in integrating machine learning models in medicine is the ability to interpret their reasoning. Popular explainability methods have demonstrated satisfactory results in natural image recognition, yet in medical image analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tom Ron , Michal Weiler-Sagie , Tamir Hazan

Fine-grained visual recognition typically depends on modeling subtle difference from object parts. However, these parts often exhibit dramatic visual variations such as occlusions, viewpoints, and spatial transformations, making it hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Lin Wu , Yang Wang

Active visual perception refers to the ability of a system to dynamically engage with its environment through sensing and action, allowing it to modify its behavior in response to specific goals or uncertainties. Unlike passive systems that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yian Li , Xiaoyu Guo , Hao Zhang , Shuiwang Li , Xiaowei Dai

Recent studies in the field of human vision science suggest that the human responses to the stimuli on a visual display are non-deterministic. People may attend to different locations on the same visual input at the same time. Based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Akisato kimura , Derek Pang , Tatsuto Takeuchi , Kouji Miyazato , Junji Yamato , Kunio Kashino

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features have been demonstrated to be effective perceptual quality features. The perceptual loss, based on feature maps of pre-trained CNN's has proven to be remarkably effective for CNN based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Taimoor Tariq , Juan Luis Gonzalez , Munchurl Kim

Neural networks have achieved success in a wide array of perceptual tasks but often fail at tasks involving both perception and higher-level reasoning. On these more challenging tasks, bespoke approaches (such as modular symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 David Ding , Felix Hill , Adam Santoro , Malcolm Reynolds , Matt Botvinick

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Integration between biology and information science benefits both fields. Many related models have been proposed, such as computational visual cognition models, computational motor control models, integrations of both and so on. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Peijie Yin , Hong Qiao , Wei Wu , Lu Qi , YinLin Li , Shanlin Zhong , Bo Zhang

In computer vision, action recognition refers to the act of classifying an action that is present in a given video and action detection involves locating actions of interest in space and/or time. Videos, which contain photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Soo Min Kang , Richard P. Wildes

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

The immense success of deep learning based methods in computer vision heavily relies on large scale training datasets. These richly annotated datasets help the network learn discriminative visual features. Collecting and annotating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yash Patel , Lluis Gomez , Raul Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Contextual information plays an important role in many computer vision tasks, such as object detection, video action detection, image classification, etc. Recognizing a single object or action out of context could be sometimes very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xuan Wang , Zhigang Zhu