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3D to 2D retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) images. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is important for the diagnosis and prevention of ophthalmic diseases. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Zhuojie Wu , Zijian Wang , Wenxuan Zou , Fan Ji , Hao Dang , Wanting Zhou , Muyi Sun

Recently, Vision Transformer and its variants have shown great promise on various computer vision tasks. The ability of capturing short- and long-range visual dependencies through self-attention is arguably the main source for the success.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiyang Dai , Bin Xiao , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Current high-resolution vision-language models encode images as high-resolution image tokens and exhaustively take all these tokens to compute attention, which significantly increases the computational cost. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Junyan Li , Delin Chen , Tianle Cai , Peihao Chen , Yining Hong , Zhenfang Chen , Yikang Shen , Chuang Gan

Attention mechanisms have become a key module in modern vision backbones due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, their quadratic complexity in sequence length and the difficulty of interpreting attention weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhuoqin Yang , Jiansong Zhang , Xiaoling Luo , Xu Wu , Zheng Lu , Linlin Shen

Skeleton-based action recognition has recently attracted a lot of attention. Researchers are coming up with new approaches for extracting spatio-temporal relations and making considerable progress on large-scale skeleton-based datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Sangwoo Cho , Muhammad Hasan Maqbool , Fei Liu , Hassan Foroosh

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

This paper introduces Exact Linear Attention (ELA), a mechanism that achieves linear computational complexity for Transformer attention by exploiting the exact decomposition property of kernel functions, thereby eliminating approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Weinuo Ou

Attention networks in multimodal learning provide an efficient way to utilize given visual information selectively. However, the computational cost to learn attention distributions for every pair of multimodal input channels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Jin-Hwa Kim , Jaehyun Jun , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Multimodal Transformers serve as the backbone for state-of-the-art vision-language models, yet their quadratic attention complexity remains a critical barrier to scalability. In this work, we investigate the viability of Linear Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Armin Gerami , Seyedehanita Madani , Ramani Duraiswami

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task in which an agent needs to follow a language-specified path to reach a target destination. The goal gets even harder as the actions available to the agent get simpler and move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Federico Landi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Massimiliano Corsini , Rita Cucchiara

We present a novel method that extends the self-attention mechanism of a vision transformer (ViT) for more accurate object detection across diverse datasets. ViTs show strong capability for image understanding tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tan Nguyen , Coy D. Heldermon , Corey Toler-Franklin

This work aims at designing a lightweight convolutional neural network for image super resolution (SR). With simplicity bare in mind, we construct a pretty concise and effective network with a newly proposed pixel attention scheme. Pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Hengyuan Zhao , Xiangtao Kong , Jingwen He , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Recent Vision Transformer~(ViT) models have demonstrated encouraging results across various computer vision tasks, thanks to their competence in modeling long-range dependencies of image patches or tokens via self-attention. These models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Sucheng Ren , Daquan Zhou , Shengfeng He , Jiashi Feng , Xinchao Wang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires a fine-grained and simultaneous understanding of both the visual content of images and the textual content of questions. Therefore, designing an effective `co-attention' model to associate key words…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Zhou Yu , Jun Yu , Yuhao Cui , Dacheng Tao , Qi Tian

Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant advancements in computer vision, thanks to its token mixer's sophisticated ability to capture global dependencies between all tokens. However, the quadratic growth in computational demands as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Wenjing Jia , Jiamao Li , Guangwei Gao , Guo-Jun Qi

We present a novel detection method using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named AttentionNet. We cast an object detection problem as an iterative classification problem, which is the most suitable form of a CNN. AttentionNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Donggeun Yoo , Sunggyun Park , Joon-Young Lee , Anthony S. Paek , In So Kweon

In recent years, the performance of lightweight Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) has been improved significantly with the application of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Large Kernel Attention (LKA). However, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Fangwei Hao , Ji Du , Desheng Kong , Jiesheng Wu , Jing Xu , Ping Li

Accurate medical image segmentation is of utmost importance for enabling automated clinical decision procedures. However, prevailing supervised deep learning approaches for medical image segmentation encounter significant challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Recent developments in Transformers for language modeling have opened new areas of research in computer vision. Results from late 2019 showed vast performance increases in both object detection and recognition when convolutions are replaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jerrod Parker , Shakti Kumar , Joe Roussy

Skeleton-based human action recognition has recently attracted increasing attention thanks to the accessibility and the popularity of 3D skeleton data. One of the key challenges in skeleton-based action recognition lies in the large view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Pengfei Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Jianru Xue , Nanning Zheng