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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

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

Spatial clustering is a crucial field, finding universal use across criminology, pathology, and urban planning. However, most spatial clustering algorithms cannot pull information from nearby nodes and suffer performance drops when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Aidan Gao , Junhong Lin

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

In this paper, we detail the relationship between convolutions and self-attention in natural language tasks. We show that relative position embeddings in self-attention layers are equivalent to recently-proposed dynamic lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tyler A. Chang , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Zhuowen Tu

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and the ventral visual pathway share vast architectural and functional similarities in visual challenges such as object recognition. Recent insights have demonstrated that both hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Leonard E. van Dyck , Roland Kwitt , Sebastian J. Denzler , Walter R. Gruber

Rotation equivariance is a desirable property in many practical applications such as motion forecasting and 3D perception, where it can offer benefits like sample efficiency, better generalization, and robustness to input perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Serge Assaad , Carlton Downey , Rami Al-Rfou , Nigamaa Nayakanti , Ben Sapp

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

A large number of real-world networks include multiple types of nodes and edges. Graph Neural Network (GNN) emerged as a deep learning framework to generate node and graph embeddings for downstream machine learning tasks. However, popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziynet Nesibe Kesimoglu , Serdar Bozdag

The Transformer architecture has gained growing attention in graph representation learning recently, as it naturally overcomes several limitations of graph neural networks (GNNs) by avoiding their strict structural inductive biases and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Dexiong Chen , Leslie O'Bray , Karsten Borgwardt

This paper does not attempt to design a state-of-the-art method for visual recognition but investigates a more efficient way to make use of convolutions to encode spatial features. By comparing the design principles of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qibin Hou , Cheng-Ze Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

We develop a model of perceptual similarity judgment based on re-training a deep convolution neural network (DCNN) that learns to associate different views of each 3D object to capture the notion of object persistence and continuity in our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Xingyu Lin , Hao Wang , Zhihao Li , Yimeng Zhang , Alan Yuille , Tai Sing Lee

Deep learning has become a powerful tool for medical image analysis; however, conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) often fail to capture the fine-grained and complex features critical for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zahid Ullah , Minki Hong , Tahir Mahmood , Jihie Kim

We propose a novel approach to image classification inspired by complex nonlinear biological visual processing, whereby classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equipped with learnable higher-order convolutions. Our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Simone Azeglio , Olivier Marre , Peter Neri , Ulisse Ferrari

Convolution and self-attention are two powerful techniques for representation learning, and they are usually considered as two peer approaches that are distinct from each other. In this paper, we show that there exists a strong underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xuran Pan , Chunjiang Ge , Rui Lu , Shiji Song , Guanfu Chen , Zeyi Huang , Gao Huang

Our review explores the comparative analysis between Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the domain of image classification, with a particular focus on clothing classification within the e-commerce sector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sonia Bbouzidi , Ghazala Hcini , Imen Jdey , Fadoua Drira

Vision transformer (ViT) has recently shown its strong capability in achieving comparable results to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, vanilla ViT simply inherits the same architecture from the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Quanfu Fan

Attentional Neural Network is a new framework that integrates top-down cognitive bias and bottom-up feature extraction in one coherent architecture. The top-down influence is especially effective when dealing with high noise or difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Qian Wang , Jiaxing Zhang , Sen Song , Zheng Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed extremely well on data represented by regularly arranged grids such as images. However, directly leveraging the classic convolution kernels or parameter sharing mechanisms on sparse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Mingtao Feng , Liang Zhang , Xuefei Lin , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Ajmal Mian

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei