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Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have improved speech recognition performance greatly by exploiting localized time-frequency patterns. But these patterns are assumed to appear in symmetric and rigid kernels by the conventional CNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Jiamin Xie , John H. L. Hansen

With the success of language pretraining, it is highly desirable to develop more efficient architectures of good scalability that can exploit the abundant unlabeled data at a lower cost. To improve the efficiency, we examine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Zihang Dai , Guokun Lai , Yiming Yang , Quoc V. Le

In recent years, how to strike a good trade-off between accuracy and inference speed has become the core issue for real-time semantic segmentation applications, which plays a vital role in real-world scenarios such as autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Guangwei Gao , Guoan Xu , Yi Yu , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Dong Yue

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Heavy computation is a bottleneck limiting deep-learningbased feature matching algorithms to be applied in many realtime applications. However, existing lightweight networks optimized for Euclidean data cannot address classical feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiaoyong Lu , Yaping Yan , Bin Kang , Songlin Du

Beyond the Transformer, it is important to explore how to exploit the capacity of the MetaFormer, an architecture that is fundamental to the performance improvements of the Transformer. Previous studies have exploited it only for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Beoungwoo Kang , Seunghun Moon , Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Suk-Ju Kang

It is critical to obtain high resolution features with long range dependency for dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation. To generate high-resolution output of size $H\times W$ from a low-resolution feature map of size $h\times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ying Wang , Chiuman Ho , Wenju Xu , Ziwei Xuan , Xudong Liu , Guo-Jun Qi

The extensive computational burden limits the usage of CNNs in mobile devices for dense estimation tasks. In this paper, we present a lightweight network to address this problem,namely LEDNet, which employs an asymmetric encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yu Wang , Quan Zhou , Jia Liu , Jian Xiong , Guangwei Gao , Xiaofu Wu , Longin Jan Latecki

Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is the core part of the Transformer model, usually suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Reza Azad , René Arimond , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Dorit Merhof

Recently, deep learning methods have been widely used for tumor segmentation of multimodal medical images with promising results. However, most existing methods are limited by insufficient representational ability, specific modality number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jun Shi , Hongyu Kan , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Liang Qiao , Zhaohui Wang , Hong An , Xudong Xue

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

State-of-the-art results on neural machine translation often use attentional sequence-to-sequence models with some form of convolution or recursion. Vaswani et al. (2017) propose a new architecture that avoids recurrence and convolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Karim Ahmed , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

Semantic segmentation of microscopy cell images by deep learning is a significant technique. We considered that the Transformers, which have recently outperformed CNNs in image recognition, could also be improved and developed for cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

Semantic Segmentation using deep convolutional neural network pose more complex challenge for any GPU intensive task. As it has to compute million of parameters, it results to huge memory consumption. Moreover, extracting finer features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Ali Shihab Sabbir

In recent years, Transformer has witnessed significant progress in food recognition. However, most existing approaches still face two critical challenges in lightweight food recognition: (1) the quadratic complexity and redundant feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shun Zou , Yi Zou , Mingya Zhang , Shipeng Luo , Zhihao Chen , Guangwei Gao

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

We present Laneformer, a conceptually simple yet powerful transformer-based architecture tailored for lane detection that is a long-standing research topic for visual perception in autonomous driving. The dominant paradigms rely on purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jianhua Han , Xiajun Deng , Xinyue Cai , Zhen Yang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang

The Conformer has become the most popular encoder model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It adds convolution modules to a transformer to learn both local and global dependencies. In this work we describe a faster, more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Xiaoyu Yang , Wei Kang , Fangjun Kuang , Yifan Yang , Zengrui Jin , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Aggregation of multi-stage features has been revealed to play a significant role in semantic segmentation. Unlike previous methods employing point-wise summation or concatenation for feature aggregation, this study proposes the Category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Quan Tang , Chuanjian Liu , Fagui Liu , Yifan Liu , Jun Jiang , Bowen Zhang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang