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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhanpeng Zeng , Yunyang Xiong , Sathya N. Ravi , Shailesh Acharya , Glenn Fung , Vikas Singh

Transformer-based neural networks have surpassed promising performance on many biomedical image segmentation tasks due to a better global information modeling from the self-attention mechanism. However, most methods are still designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

A modern deep neural network (DNN) for image classification tasks typically consists of two parts: a backbone for feature extraction, and a head for feature encoding and class predication. We observe that the head structures of mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Chao Li , Aojun Zhou , Anbang Yao

Attention mechanisms underpin the computational power of Transformer models, which have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains. Yet understanding and extending the principles underlying self-attention remains a key challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Cheng Kevin Qu , Andrew Ly , Pulin Gong

3D image segmentation is one of the most important and ubiquitous problems in medical image processing. It provides detailed quantitative analysis for accurate disease diagnosis, abnormal detection, and classification. Currently deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Zhenxi Zhang , Jie Li , Zhusi Zhong , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

We adapt the remote sensing-inspired AMBER model from multi-band image segmentation to 3D medical datacube segmentation. To address the computational bottleneck of the volumetric transformer, we propose the AMBER-AFNO architecture. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Andrea Dosi , Semanto Mondal , Rajib Chandra Ghosh , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo

Very high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing (RS) image classification is the fundamental task for RS image analysis and understanding. Recently, transformer-based models demonstrated outstanding potential for learning high-order contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yan Zhang , Xiyuan Gao , Qingyan Duan , Jiaxu Leng , Xiao Pu , Xinbo Gao

While the Transformer architecture dominates many fields, its quadratic self-attention complexity hinders its use in large-scale applications. Linear attention offers an efficient alternative, but its direct application often degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Kewei Zhang , Ye Huang , Yufan Deng , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Huan Ling , Enze Xie , Daquan Zhou

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Recently, Transformer-based architecture has been introduced into single image deraining task due to its advantage in modeling non-local information. However, existing approaches tend to integrate global features based on a dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhentao Fan , Hongming Chen , Yufeng Li

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image…

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The Attention module finds common usage in language modeling, presenting distinct challenges within the broader scope of Natural Language Processing. Multi-Head Attention (MHA) employs an absolute positional encoding, which imposes…

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The self-attention mechanism, a cornerstone of Transformer-based state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, is largely heuristic-driven and fundamentally challenging to interpret. Establishing a robust theoretical foundation to explain…

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The current trend of automating inspections at substations has sparked a surge in interest in the field of transformer image recognition. However, due to restrictions in the number of parameters in existing models, high-resolution images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Siyi Zhang , Cheng Liu , Xiang Li , Xin Zhai , Zhen Wei , Sizhe Li , Xun Ma

Organs-at-risk (OAR) delineation in computed tomography (CT) is an important step in Radiation Therapy (RT) planning. Recently, deep learning based methods for OAR delineation have been proposed and applied in clinical practice for separate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Shanlin Sun , Yang Liu , Narisu Bai , Hao Tang , Xuming Chen , Qian Huang , Yong Liu , Xiaohui Xie

The rapid development of deep learning provides a better solution for the end-to-end reconstruction of hyperspectral image (HSI). However, existing learning-based methods have two major defects. Firstly, networks with self-attention usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Xiaowan Hu , Yuanhao Cai , Jing Lin , Haoqian Wang , Xin Yuan , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end feature fusion at-tention network (FFA-Net) to directly restore the haze-free image. The FFA-Net architecture consists of three key components: 1) A novel Feature Attention (FA) module combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xu Qin , Zhilin Wang , Yuanchao Bai , Xiaodong Xie , Huizhu Jia

In this paper, we present a Hybrid Spectral Denoising Transformer (HSDT) for hyperspectral image denoising. Challenges in adapting transformer for HSI arise from the capabilities to tackle existing limitations of CNN-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zeqiang Lai , Chenggang Yan , Ying Fu

Scaling Transformers to ultra-long contexts is bottlenecked by the $O(n^2 d)$ cost of self-attention. Existing methods reduce this cost along the sequence axis through local windows, kernel approximations, or token-level sparsity, but these…

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