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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Self-Attention has become prevalent in computer vision models. Inspired by fully connected Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), we decompose self-attention into local and context terms. They correspond to the unary and binary terms in CRF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Chenglin Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

Understanding instructional videos requires recognizing fine-grained actions and modeling their temporal relations, which remains challenging for current Video Foundation Models (VFMs). This difficulty stems from noisy web supervision and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhuoyi Yang , Jiapeng Yu , Reuben Tan , Boyang Li , Huijuan Xu

Two factors have proven to be very important to the performance of semantic segmentation models: global context and multi-level semantics. However, generating features that capture both factors always leads to high computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qi Song , Kangfu Mei , Rui Huang

For fine-grained categorization tasks, videos could serve as a better source than static images as videos have a higher chance of containing discriminative patterns. Nevertheless, a video sequence could also contain a lot of redundant and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Chen Zhu , Xiao Tan , Feng Zhou , Xiao Liu , Kaiyu Yue , Errui Ding , Yi Ma

The attention mechanisms have been employed in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to enhance the feature representation. However, existing attention mechanisms only concentrate on refining the features inside each sample and neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Qishang Cheng , Hongliang Li , Qingbo Wu , King Ngi Ngan

This paper presents experiments extending the work of Ba et al. (2014) on recurrent neural models for attention into less constrained visual environments, specifically fine-grained categorization on the Stanford Dogs data set. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Pierre Sermanet , Andrea Frome , Esteban Real

Fusing multi-modality information is known to be able to effectively bring significant improvement in video classification. However, the most popular method up to now is still simply fusing each stream's prediction scores at the last stage.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Lu Chi , Guiyu Tian , Yadong Mu , Qi Tian

The utilization of prior knowledge about anomalies is an essential issue for anomaly detections. Recently, the visual attention mechanism has become a promising way to improve the performance of CNNs for some computer vision tasks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Ryoya Katafuchi , Terumasa Tokunaga

Action localization networks are often structured as a feature encoder sub-network and a localization sub-network, where the feature encoder learns to transform an input video to features that are useful for the localization sub-network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Deepak Sridhar , Niamul Quader , Srikanth Muralidharan , Yaoxin Li , Peng Dai , Juwei Lu

The objective of action quality assessment is to score sports videos. However, most existing works focus only on video dynamic information (i.e., motion information) but ignore the specific postures that an athlete is performing in a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ling-An Zeng , Fa-Ting Hong , Wei-Shi Zheng , Qi-Zhi Yu , Wei Zeng , Yao-Wei Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Processing 3D data efficiently has always been a challenge. Spatial operations on large-scale point clouds, stored as sparse data, require extra cost. Attracted by the success of transformers, researchers are using multi-head attention for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Saleh , Yige Wang , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

In this paper, we demonstrate that an inherent waveform pattern in the attention allocation of large language models (LLMs) significantly affects their performance in tasks demanding a high degree of context awareness, such as utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yuhan Chen , Ang Lv , Ting-En Lin , Changyu Chen , Yuchuan Wu , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Rui Yan

Triggered by the success of transformers in various visual tasks, the spatial self-attention mechanism has recently attracted more and more attention in the computer vision community. However, we empirically found that a typical vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jiayin Sun , Hong Wang , Qiulei Dong

Few-shot segmentation aims to train a segmentation model that can fast adapt to a novel task for which only a few annotated images are provided. Most recent models have adopted a prototype-based paradigm for few-shot inference. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Li Guo , Haoming Liu , Yuxuan Xia , Chengyu Zhang , Xiaochen Lu

In-context learning with attention enables large neural networks to make context-specific predictions by selectively focusing on relevant examples. Here, we adapt this idea to supervised learning procedures such as lasso regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Erin Craig , Robert Tibshirani

The goal of this paper is to improve the performance of pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) models, particularly DINOv2, in image clustering task without requiring re-training or fine-tuning. As model size increases, high-norm artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kazumoto Nakamura , Yuji Nozawa , Yu-Chieh Lin , Kengo Nakata , Youyang Ng

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

Self-attention mechanisms model long-range context by using pairwise attention between all input tokens. In doing so, they assume a fixed attention granularity defined by the individual tokens (e.g., text characters or image pixels), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Chen Huang , Walter Talbott , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind

Performing data augmentation for learning deep neural networks is known to be important for training visual recognition systems. By artificially increasing the number of training examples, it helps reducing overfitting and improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Nikita Dvornik , Julien Mairal , Cordelia Schmid