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Due to the large-scale image size and object variations, current CNN-based and Transformer-based approaches for remote sensing image semantic segmentation are suboptimal for capturing the long-range dependency or limited to the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mushui Liu , Jun Dan , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu , Yingming Li , Xi Li

We consider the problem of referring segmentation in images and videos with natural language. Given an input image (or video) and a referring expression, the goal is to segment the entity referred by the expression in the image or video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yang Wang

Multimodal visual information fusion aims to integrate the multi-sensor data into a single image which contains more complementary information and less redundant features. However the complementary information is hard to extract, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Attention mechanism of late has been quite popular in the computer vision community. A lot of work has been done to improve the performance of the network, although almost always it results in increased computational complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar

Efficiently modeling massive images is a long-standing challenge in machine learning. To this end, we introduce Multi-Scale Attention (MSA). MSA relies on two key ideas, (i) multi-scale representations (ii) bi-directional cross-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Long Lian , Longchao Liu , Natalia Harguindeguy , Boyi Li , Alexander Bick , Maggie Chung , Trevor Darrell , Adam Yala

The use of complex attention modules has improved the performance of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. This work aims to learn an improved multi-modal representation through dense interaction of visual and textual modalities. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

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

Multi-view learning can cover all features of data samples more comprehensively, so multi-view learning has attracted widespread attention. Traditional subspace clustering methods, such as sparse subspace clustering (SSC) and low-ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jian-wei Liu , Hao-jie Xie , Run-kun Lu , Xiong-lin Luo

In multi-task learning (MTL) for visual scene understanding, it is crucial to transfer useful information between multiple tasks with minimal interferences. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture that effectively transfers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sunkyung Kim , Hyesong Choi , Dongbo Min

Channel attention mechanisms endeavor to recalibrate channel weights to enhance representation abilities of networks. However, mainstream methods often rely solely on global average pooling as the feature squeezer, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yangbo Jiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Le Han , Zenan Huang , Nenggan Zheng

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with channel-wise feature refining mechanisms have brought noticeable benefits to modelling channel dependencies. However, current attention paradigms fail to infer an optimal channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nick Nikzad , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

Recent deep multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have widely incorporated transformers into cascade network for high-resolution depth estimation, achieving impressive results. However, existing transformer-based methods are constrained by their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Sicheng Wang , Hao Jiang , Lei Xiang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yue Lu , Yun Zhou , Zhuqing Jiang , Xiaoqiang Guo , Zixuan Yang

Although deep convolutional networks have been widely studied for head and neck (HN) organs at risk (OAR) segmentation, their use for routine clinical treatment planning is limited by a lack of robustness to imaging artifacts, low soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Harini Veeraraghavan , Jue Jiang , Sharif Elguindi , Sean L. Berry , Ifeanyirochukwu Onochie , Aditya Apte , Laura Cervino , Joseph O. Deasy

Learning light-weight yet expressive deep networks in both image synthesis and image recognition remains a challenging problem. Inspired by a more recent observation that it is the data-specificity that makes the multi-head self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jianghao Shen , Tianfu Wu

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

The attention mechanism is a core component of the Transformer architecture. Various methods have been developed to compute attention scores, including multi-head attention (MHA), multi-query attention, group-query attention and so on. We…

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved impressive results in various tasks, but interpreting the internal mechanism is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we exploit a multi-channel attention mechanism in feature space. Our…

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