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Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. This paper proposes a hierarchical network with transformer encoders and memory mechanism to address this problem. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yanpei Shi , Mingjie Chen , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is essential for decoding tumor heterogeneity. However, pan-cancer research still faces two key challenges: learning discriminative and efficient single-cell representations, and establishing a…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-04 Xiaoshui Huang , Tianlin Zhu , Yifan Zuo , Xue Xia , Zonghan Wu , Jiebin Yan , Dingli Hua , Zongyi Xu , Yuming Fang , Jian Zhang

Although data may be abundant, complete data is less so, due to missing columns or rows. This missingness undermines the performance of downstream data products that either omit incomplete cases or create derived completed data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Haw-minn Lu , Giancarlo Perrone , José Unpingco

Spatial functional organization is a hallmark of biological brains: neurons are arranged topographically according to their response properties, at multiple scales. In contrast, representations within most machine learning models lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Taha Binhuraib , Greta Tuckute , Nicholas Blauch

This paper proposes a new transformer-based framework to learn class-specific object localization maps as pseudo labels for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Inspired by the fact that the attended regions of the one-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Dan Xu

Accurate skin lesion segmentation from dermoscopic images is of great importance for skin cancer diagnosis. However, automatic segmentation of melanoma remains a challenging task because it is difficult to incorporate useful texture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Jiguang Zhang , Shibiao Xu , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to convert tabular images into a machine-readable format, where a visual encoder extracts image features and a textual decoder generates table-representing tokens. Existing approaches use classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 ShengYun Peng , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

Advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have led to significant progress in measuring gene expressions at the single-cell level. The amount of publicly available single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data is already surpassing 50M…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jing Gong , Minsheng Hao , Xingyi Cheng , Xin Zeng , Chiming Liu , Jianzhu Ma , Xuegong Zhang , Taifeng Wang , Le Song

To address the challenges of table structure recognition, we propose a novel Split-Merge-based top-down model optimized for large, densely populated tables. Our approach formulates row and column splitting as sequence labeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Hou , Jun Wang

Due to the powerful ability in capturing the global information, Transformer has become an alternative architecture of CNNs for hyperspectral image classification. However, general Transformer mainly considers the global spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhiqiang Gong , Xian Zhou , Wen Yao

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) refers to the task of simultaneously extracting the changed areas and the semantic categories (before and after the changes) in Remote Sensing Images (RSIs). This is more meaningful than Binary Change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Lei Ding , Jing Zhang , Kai Zhang , Haitao Guo , Bing Liu , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Multivariate time series classification is a crucial task in data mining, attracting growing research interest due to its broad applications. While many existing methods focus on discovering discriminative patterns in time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Wenjie Xi , Rundong Zuo , Alejandro Alvarez , Jie Zhang , Byron Choi , Jessica Lin

The pre-trained transformer demonstrates remarkable generalization ability in natural image processing. However, directly transferring it to magnetic resonance images faces two key challenges: the inability to adapt to the specificity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingkai Li , Xiaoze Tian , Yuhang Shen , Jia Wang , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Zhuoran Zheng

Surface material recognition is a key component in robotic perception and physical interaction, particularly when leveraging both tactile and visual sensory inputs. In this work, we propose Surformer v1, a transformer-based architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Manish Kansana , Elias Hossain , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

Reconstructing physical field tensors from \textit{in situ} observations, such as radio maps and ocean sound speed fields, is crucial for enabling environment-aware decision making in various applications, e.g., wireless communications and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Panqi Chen , Siyuan Li , Lei Cheng , Xiao Fu , Yik-Chung Wu , Sergios Theodoridis

Transformer-based pre-trained language models are vocabulary-dependent, mapping by default each token to its corresponding embedding. This one-to-one mapping results into embedding matrices that occupy a lot of memory (i.e. millions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Huiyin Xue , Nikolaos Aletras

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for inspecting power lines and capturing high-resolution aerial images. However, detecting power lines in aerial images is difficult,as the foreground data(i.e, power lines) is small and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Deyu An , Qiang Zhang , Jianshu Chao , Ting Li , Feng Qiao , Yong Deng , Zhenpeng Bian

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has revolutionised transcriptomics analysis by preserving tissue architecture, allowing researchers to study gene expression in its native spatial context. However, despite its potential, ST still faces…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-19 Anthony Baptista , Rosamond Nuamah , Ciro Chiappini , Anita Grigoriadis

In recent years, numerous Transformer-based models have been applied to long-term time-series forecasting (LTSF) tasks. However, recent studies with linear models have questioned their effectiveness, demonstrating that simple linear layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiaheng Yin , Zhengxin Shi , Jianshen Zhang , Xiaomin Lin , Yulin Huang , Yongzhi Qi , Wei Qi

High-resolution spatial transcriptomics platforms, such as Xenium, generate single-cell images that capture both molecular and spatial context, but their extremely high dimensionality poses major challenges for representation learning and…