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Inference of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGAs often incurs high latency and a long initiation interval due to the deep nested loops required to densely convolve every input pixel regardless of its feature value.…

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Robust estimation is a crucial and still challenging task, which involves estimating model parameters in noisy environments. Although conventional sampling consensus-based algorithms sample several times to achieve robustness, these…

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Recent Reference-Based image super-resolution (RefSR) has improved SOTA deep methods introducing attention mechanisms to enhance low-resolution images by transferring high-resolution textures from a reference high-resolution image. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Esteban Reyes-Saldana , Mariano Rivera

This paper presents a fast decorrelated neuro-ensemble with heterogeneous features for large-scale data analytics, where stochastic configuration networks (SCNs) are employed as base learner models and the well-known negative correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Dianhui Wang , Caihao Cui

Recently, deep learning-based methods have dominated image dehazing domain. A multi-receptive-field non-local network (MRFNLN) consisting of the multi-stream feature attention block (MSFAB) and the cross non-local block (CNLB) is presented…

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Efficient long-sequence generation is a critical challenge for Large Language Models. While recent sparse decoding methods improve efficiency, they suffer from KV cache misalignment, where approximation errors accumulate and degrade…

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Lane detection is one of the most important tasks in self-driving. Due to various complex scenarios (e.g., severe occlusion, ambiguous lanes, etc.) and the sparse supervisory signals inherent in lane annotations, lane detection task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tu Zheng , Hao Fang , Yi Zhang , Wenjian Tang , Zheng Yang , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

When modeling a given type of data, we consider it to involve two key aspects: 1) identifying relevant elements (e.g., image pixels or textual words) to a central element, as in a convolutional receptive field, or to a query element, as in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hehe Fan , Yi Yang , Mohan Kankanhalli , Fei Wu

This paper presents Contrastive Reconstruction, ConRec - a self-supervised learning algorithm that obtains image representations by jointly optimizing a contrastive and a self-reconstruction loss. We showcase that state-of-the-art…

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In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. The existing contrastive learning methods use normal augmentations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Tianyu Guo , Hong Liu , Zhan Chen , Mengyuan Liu , Tao Wang , Runwei Ding

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse visual tasks, yet their performance degrades in complex visual environments. While existing enhancement approaches require additional training, rely on…

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To mitigate the computational complexity in the self-attention mechanism on long sequences, linear attention utilizes computation tricks to achieve linear complexity, while state space models (SSMs) popularize a favorable practice of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zicheng Liu , Siyuan Li , Li Wang , Zedong Wang , Yunfan Liu , Stan Z. Li

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is a fundamental task in geospatial research. However, widely used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have notable drawbacks: CNNs may be limited by insufficient remote…

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Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Recent advancements in the field of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) using deep learning techniques demonstrate high performance across multiple open-source datasets. However, such models are typically very large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nasim Jamshidi Avanaki , Abhijay Ghildyal , Nabajeet Barman , Saman Zadtootaghaj

While CNNs naturally lend themselves to densely sampled data, and sophisticated implementations are available, they lack the ability to efficiently process sparse data. In this work we introduce a suite of tools that exploit sparsity in…

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Recently, image-text matching has attracted more and more attention from academia and industry, which is fundamental to understanding the latent correspondence across visual and textual modalities. However, most existing methods implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yang Qin , Yuan Sun , Dezhong Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng , Peng Hu

Consistency regularization has prevailed in semi-supervised semantic segmentation and achieved promising performance. However, existing methods typically concentrate on enhancing the Image-augmentation based Prediction consistency and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jianjian Yin , Tao Chen , Gensheng Pei , Yazhou Yao , Liqiang Nie , Xiansheng Hua

Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) is a fundamental technique for decomposing data into low-rank and sparse components, which plays a critical role for applications such as image processing and anomaly detection. Traditional RPCA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Kexin Li , You-wei Wen , Xu Xiao , Mingchao Zhao