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In this work, we aim to predict human eye fixation with view-free scenes based on an end-to-end deep learning architecture. Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made substantial improvement on human attention prediction, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen

This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

Visual attention has been successfully applied in structural prediction tasks such as visual captioning and question answering. Existing visual attention models are generally spatial, i.e., the attention is modeled as spatial probabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Liqiang Nie , Jian Shao , Wei Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Advances in language modeling have led to the development of deep attention-based models that are performant across a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) problems. These language models are typified by a pre-training process…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Joseph F DeRose , Jiayao Wang , Matthew Berger

When the trained physician interprets medical images, they understand the clinical importance of visual features. By applying cognitive attention, they apply greater focus onto clinically relevant regions while disregarding unnecessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Adrit Rao , Jongchan Park , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , Oliver Aalami

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

Exemplar-based colourisation aims to add plausible colours to a grayscale image using the guidance of a colour reference image. Most of the existing methods tackle the task as a style transfer problem, using a convolutional neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Marc Gorriz Blanch , Issa Khalifeh , Alan Smeaton , Noel O'Connor , Marta Mrak

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying attention mechanisms in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to solve computer vision tasks. Most of these methods learn to explicitly identify and highlight relevant parts of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Kateryna Chumachenko , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Attention mechanisms have recently been introduced in deep learning for various tasks in natural language processing and computer vision. But despite their popularity, the "correctness" of the implicitly-learned attention maps has only been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chenxi Liu , Junhua Mao , Fei Sha , Alan Yuille

In-context learning with attention enables large neural networks to make context-specific predictions by selectively focusing on relevant examples. Here, we adapt this idea to supervised learning procedures such as lasso regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Erin Craig , Robert Tibshirani

Modern deep learning models often make predictions by focusing on irrelevant areas, leading to biased performance and limited generalization. Existing methods aimed at rectifying model attention require explicit labels for irrelevant areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Seongmin Lee , Ali Payani , Duen Horng Chau

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Word alignment, which aims to align translationally equivalent words between source and target sentences, plays an important role in many natural language processing tasks. Current unsupervised neural alignment methods focus on inducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Chi Chen , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Attention, specifically scaled dot-product attention, has proven effective for natural language, but it does not have a mechanism for handling hierarchical patterns of arbitrary nesting depth, which limits its ability to recognize certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

Attention plays a critical role in human visual experience. Furthermore, it has recently been demonstrated that attention can also play an important role in the context of applying artificial neural networks to a variety of tasks from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in local spatial pattern recognition. For many vision tasks, such as object recognition and segmentation, salient information is also present outside CNN's kernel boundaries. However, CNNs struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Farzad Salajegheh , Nader Asadi , Soroush Saryazdi , Sudhir Mudur

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

We present Attention Zoom, a modular and model-agnostic spatial attention mechanism designed to improve feature extraction in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike traditional attention approaches that require architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Daniel DeAlcala , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana

The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Huiyin Xue , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Nikolaos Aletras

Visual explanation (attention)-guided learning uses not only labels but also explanations to guide model reasoning process. While visual attention-guided learning has shown promising results, it requires a large number of explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yifei Zhang , Siyi Gu , Bo Pan , Guangji Bai , Meikang Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang , Liang Zhao