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Transformer models have achieved promising performances in point cloud segmentation. However, most existing attention schemes provide the same feature learning paradigm for all points equally and overlook the enormous difference in size…

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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scan yields all possible cross-section images of a retina for detecting biomarkers linked to optical defects. Due to the high volume of data generated, an automated and reliable biomarker detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Haz Sameen Shahgir , Tanjeem Azwad Zaman , Khondker Salman Sayeed , Md. Asif Haider , Sheikh Saifur Rahman Jony , M. Sohel Rahman

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian

Vision Transformers has demonstrated competitive performance on computer vision tasks benefiting from their ability to capture long-range dependencies with multi-head self-attention modules and multi-layer perceptron. However, calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qinghao Hu , Kaidong Li , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Transformer architectures deliver state-of-the-art accuracy via dense full-attention, but their quadratic time and memory complexity with respect to sequence length limits practical deployment. Linear attention mechanisms offer linear or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaojie Xia , Huigang Zhang , Chaoliang Zhong , Jun Sun , Yusuke Oishi

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

Given the wide and ever growing range of different efficient Transformer attention mechanisms, it is important to identify which attention is most effective when given a task. In this work, we are also interested in combining different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jason Ross Brown , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert D Mullins

Attention mechanisms, especially self-attention, have played an increasingly important role in deep feature representation for visual tasks. Self-attention updates the feature at each position by computing a weighted sum of features using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Meng-Hao Guo , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Transformers have proven highly effective across modalities, but standard softmax attention scales quadratically with sequence length, limiting long context modeling. Linear attention mitigates this by approximating attention with kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ashkan Shahbazi , Chayne Thrash , Yikun Bai , Keaton Hamm , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Soheil Kolouri

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Poojan Oza , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

The Transformer translation model is based on the multi-head attention mechanism, which can be parallelized easily. The multi-head attention network performs the scaled dot-product attention function in parallel, empowering the model by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Hongfei Xu , Qiuhui Liu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong

A variety of attention mechanisms have been studied to improve the performance of various computer vision tasks. However, the prior methods overlooked the significance of retaining the information on both channel and spatial aspects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Nico Hoffmann

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

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

The Transformer model is widely successful on many natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention limit its application on long text. In this paper, adopting a fine-to-coarse attention mechanism on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zihao Ye , Qipeng Guo , Quan Gan , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

In healthcare, medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate disease diagnosis and the development of effective treatment strategies. Early detection can significantly aid in managing diseases and potentially prevent their progression.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bobby Azad , Pourya Adibfar , Kaiqun Fu

Modern vision transformers leverage visually inspired local interaction between pixels through attention computed within window or grid regions, in contrast to the global attention employed in the original ViT. Regional attention restricts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nabil Ibtehaz , Ning Yan , Masood Mortazavi , Daisuke Kihara

Multi-head attention, a collection of several attention mechanisms that independently attend to different parts of the input, is the key ingredient in the Transformer. Recent work has shown, however, that a large proportion of the heads in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jiaoda Li , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

We propose Axial Transformers, a self-attention-based autoregressive model for images and other data organized as high dimensional tensors. Existing autoregressive models either suffer from excessively large computational resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Jonathan Ho , Nal Kalchbrenner , Dirk Weissenborn , Tim Salimans

Following the success of dot-product attention in Transformers, numerous approximations have been recently proposed to address its quadratic complexity with respect to the input length. While these variants are memory and compute efficient,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ankit Gupta , Guy Dar , Shaya Goodman , David Ciprut , Jonathan Berant