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Accurate medical image segmentation is an integral part of the medical image analysis pipeline that requires the ability to merge local and global information. While vision transformers are able to capture global interactions using vanilla…

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Transformers have improved the state-of-the-art across numerous tasks in sequence modeling. Besides the quadratic computational and memory complexity w.r.t the sequence length, the self-attention mechanism only processes information at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yao Zhang , Yunpu Ma , Thomas Seidl , Volker Tresp

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

Two-view correspondence learning is a key task in computer vision, which aims to establish reliable matching relationships for applications such as camera pose estimation and 3D reconstruction. However, existing methods have limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shuyuan Lin , Mengtin Lo , Haosheng Chen , Yanjie Liang , Qiangqiang Wu

Vision transformers have shown excellent performance in computer vision tasks. As the computation cost of their self-attention mechanism is expensive, recent works tried to replace the self-attention mechanism in vision transformers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Lujun Li , Menglong Lu , Xin Niu , Peijie Dong , Dongsheng Li

3D object detection in point cloud data remains a challenging task due to the sparsity and lack of global structure inherent in the input. In this work, we propose a novel Multi-Scale Attention (MSA) mechanism integrated into the 3DETR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mustaqeem Khan , Aidana Nurakhmetova , Wail Gueaieb , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Although hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing complex datasets, their practical performance often remains limited. On one hand, existing networks typically employ a single type of attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Murong Yang , Shihui Ying , Yue Gao , Xin-Jian Xu

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

Attention is typically used to select informative sub-phrases that are used for prediction. This paper investigates the novel use of attention as a form of feature augmentation, i.e, casted attention. We propose Multi-Cast Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak

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

Transformers have quickly shined in the computer vision world since the emergence of Vision Transformers (ViTs). The dominant role of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) seems to be challenged by increasingly effective transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Xuxi Chen , Qiao Xiao , Boqian Wu , Tommi Kärkkäinen , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Mocanu , Zhangyang Wang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great potential in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target recognition. SAR images have a strong sense of granularity and have different scales of texture features, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiang Yu , Zhe Geng , Xiaohua Huang , Qinglu Wang , Daiyin Zhu

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

MANAR (Memory-augmented Attention with Navigational Abstract Conceptual Representation), contextualization layer generalizes standard multi-head attention (MHA) by instantiating the principles of Global Workspace Theory (GWT). While MHA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zuher Jahshan , Ben Ben Ishay , Leonid Yavits

Image super-resolution (SR) has significantly advanced through the adoption of Transformer architectures. However, conventional techniques aimed at enlarging the self-attention window to capture broader contexts come with inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chengxing Xie , Xiaoming Zhang , Linze Li , Yuqian Fu , Biao Gong , Tianrui Li , Kai Zhang

The deployment of extremely large-scale array (ELAA) brings higher spectral efficiency and spatial degree of freedom, but triggers issues on near-field channel estimation. Existing near-field channel estimation schemes primarily exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Zhiming Zhu , Shu Xu , Jiexin Zhang , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Transformer-based LLMs have achieved exceptional performance across a wide range of NLP tasks. However, the standard self-attention mechanism suffers from quadratic time complexity and linearly increased cache size. Sliding window attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixing Xu , Shivank Nag , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

Outdoor images often suffer from severe degradation due to rain, haze, and noise, impairing image quality and challenging high-level tasks. Current image restoration methods struggle to handle complex degradation while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Huan Zhang , Xu Zhang , Nian Cai , Jianglei Di , Yun Zhang

Informative features play a crucial role in the single image super-resolution task. Channel attention has been demonstrated to be effective for preserving information-rich features in each layer. However, channel attention treats each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Ben Niu , Weilei Wen , Wenqi Ren , Xiangde Zhang , Lianping Yang , Shuzhen Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Haifeng Shen