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This paper presents a comparative study of a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture against widely used pretrained and transfer learning CNN models across five real-world image datasets. The datasets span binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mahmudul Hasan , Mabsur Fatin Bin Hossain

In this work, we propose "Residual Attention Network", a convolutional neural network using attention mechanism which can incorporate with state-of-art feed forward network architecture in an end-to-end training fashion. Our Residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fei Wang , Mengqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Shuo Yang , Cheng Li , Honggang Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

We introduce the Graded Transformer framework, a new class of sequence models that embeds algebraic inductive biases through grading transformations on vector spaces. Extending Graded Neural Networks (GNNs), we propose two architectures:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tony Shaska

Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an improved version of ResNets. Our proposed improvements address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Deep learning architectures suffer from depth-related performance degradation, limiting the effective depth of neural networks. Approaches like ResNet are able to mitigate this, but they do not completely eliminate the problem. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Antonio Di Cecco , Carlo Metta , Marco Fantozzi , Francesco Morandin , Maurizio Parton

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

Designed as extremely deep architectures, deep residual networks which provide a rich visual representation and offer robust convergence behaviors have recently achieved exceptional performance in numerous computer vision problems. Being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 T. Hoang Ngan Le , Chi Nhan Duong , Ligong Han , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides , Dipan Pal

Deep residual networks (ResNets) made a recent breakthrough in deep learning. The core idea of ResNets is to have shortcut connections between layers that allow the network to be much deeper while still being easy to optimize avoiding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sam Leroux , Pavlo Molchanov , Pieter Simoens , Bart Dhoedt , Thomas Breuel , Jan Kautz

Near-field channel estimation is a fundamental challenge in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication, where extremely large antenna arrays (ELAA) enable near-field communication (NFC) but introduce significant signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Vu Tung Lam , Do Hai Son , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh , Le Trung Thanh

The success of Vision Transformer (ViT) has been widely reported on a wide range of image recognition tasks. ViT can learn global dependencies superior to CNN, yet CNN's inherent locality can substitute for expensive training resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chenghao Li , Chaoning Zhang

In this paper, we tackle the high computational overhead of Transformers for efficient image super-resolution~(SR). Motivated by the observations of self-attention's inter-layer repetition, we introduce a convolutionized self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

Existing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) compute the message exchange between nodes by either aggregating uniformly (convolving) the features of all the neighboring nodes, or by applying a non-uniform score (attending) to the features. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Adrián Javaloy , Pablo Sanchez-Martin , Amit Levi , Isabel Valera

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

In image denoising, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can obtain favorable performance on removing spatially invariant noise. However, many of these networks cannot perform well on removing the real noise (i.e. spatially variant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Wencong Wu , Shijie Liu , Yi Zhou , Yungang Zhang , Yu Xiang

We address the challenging problem of deep representation learning--the efficient adaption of a pre-trained deep network to different tasks. Specifically, we propose to explore gradient-based features. These features are gradients of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fangzhou Mu , Yingyu Liang , Yin Li

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated their advantages across a wide range of tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism in GTs overlooks the graph's inductive biases, particularly biases related to structure, which are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Chuang Liu , Zelin Yao , Yibing Zhan , Xueqi Ma , Shirui Pan , Wenbin Hu

Recently, many works have designed wider and deeper networks to achieve higher image super-resolution performance. Despite their outstanding performance, they still suffer from high computational resources, preventing them from directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Axi Niu , Pei Wang , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Qingsen Yan , Yanning Zhang

In this work we demonstrate the vulnerability of vision transformers (ViTs) to gradient-based inversion attacks. During this attack, the original data batch is reconstructed given model weights and the corresponding gradients. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Holger Roth , Wenqi Li , Jan Kautz , Daguang Xu , Pavlo Molchanov

Gradient dynamics play a central role in determining the stability and generalization of deep neural networks. In this work, we provide an empirical analysis of how variance and standard deviation of gradients evolve during training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Vincent-Daniel Yun