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Self-attention (SA) has become the cornerstone of modern vision backbones for its powerful expressivity over traditional Convolutions (Conv). However, its quadratic complexity remains a critical bottleneck for practical applications. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hao Yu , Haoyu Chen , Yan Jiang , Wei Peng , Zhaodong Sun , Samuel Kaski , Guoying Zhao

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with channel-wise feature refining mechanisms have brought noticeable benefits to modelling channel dependencies. However, current attention paradigms fail to infer an optimal channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nick Nikzad , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

Recently, a series of works in computer vision have shown promising results on various image and video understanding tasks using self-attention. However, due to the quadratic computational and memory complexities of self-attention, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zhuoran Shen , Irwan Bello , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Xuhui Jia , Ching-Hui Chen

Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Guangyu Ren , Tianhong Dai , Panagiotis Barmpoutis , Tania Stathaki

Driven by Convolutional Neural Networks, object detection and semantic segmentation have gained significant improvements. However, existing methods on the basis of a full top-down module have limited robustness in handling those two tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Shihua Huang , Lu Wang

In medical images, various types of lesions often manifest significant differences in their shape and texture. Accurate medical image segmentation demands deep learning models with robust capabilities in multi-scale and boundary feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zhenhuan Zhou , Along He , Yanlin Wu , Rui Yao , Xueshuo Xie , Tao Li

This paper presents a module, Spatial Cross-scale Convolution (SCSC), which is verified to be effective in improving both CNNs and Transformers. Nowadays, CNNs and Transformers have been successful in a variety of tasks. Especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xijun Wang , Xiaojie Chu , Chunrui Han , Xiangyu Zhang

The transformer networks are extensively utilized in face forgery detection due to their scalability across large datasets.Despite their success, transformers face challenges in balancing the capture of global context, which is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhida Zhang , Jie Cao , Wenkui Yang , Qihang Fan , Kai Zhou , Ran He

Recent non-local self-attention methods have proven to be effective in capturing long-range dependencies for semantic segmentation. These methods usually form a similarity map of RC*C (by compressing spatial dimensions) or RHW*HW (by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Qi Song , Jie Li , Chenghong Li , Hao Guo , Rui Huang

By contextualizing the kernel as global as possible, Modern ConvNets have shown great potential in computer vision tasks. However, recent progress on multi-order game-theoretic interaction within deep neural networks (DNNs) reveals the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Siyuan Li , Zedong Wang , Zicheng Liu , Cheng Tan , Haitao Lin , Di Wu , Zhiyuan Chen , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Monocular Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to reconstruct complete 3D semantic scenes from a single RGB image, offering a cost-effective solution for autonomous driving and robotics. However, the inherently imbalanced nature of voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yu Xue , Longjun Gao , Yuanqi Su , HaoAng Lu , Xiaoning Zhang

Visual recognition has been dominated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for years. Though recently the prevailing vision transformers (ViTs) have shown great potential of self-attention based models in ImageNet classification, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Li Yuan , Qibin Hou , Zihang Jiang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Object co-segmentation is to segment the shared objects in multiple relevant images, which has numerous applications in computer vision. This paper presents a spatial and semantic modulated deep network framework for object co-segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Kaihua Zhang , Jin Chen , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu

Semantic segmentation is a challenge in scene parsing. It requires both context information and rich spatial information. In this paper, we differentiate features for scene segmentation based on dedicated attention mechanisms (DF-DAM), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Zhiqiang Xiong , Zhicheng Wang , Zhaohui Yu , Xi Gu

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end feature fusion at-tention network (FFA-Net) to directly restore the haze-free image. The FFA-Net architecture consists of three key components: 1) A novel Feature Attention (FA) module combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xu Qin , Zhilin Wang , Yuanchao Bai , Xiaodong Xie , Huizhu Jia

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti

We introduce MoNet, a novel functionally modular network for self-supervised and interpretable end-to-end learning. By leveraging its functional modularity with a latent-guided contrastive loss function, MoNet efficiently learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hyunki Seong , David Hyunchul Shim

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in various clinical applications; however, existing deep learning models face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) capture local details well but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Saqib Qamar , Mohd Fazil , Parvez Ahmad , Shakir Khan , Abu Taha Zamani

Attention mechanism of late has been quite popular in the computer vision community. A lot of work has been done to improve the performance of the network, although almost always it results in increased computational complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar