Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made significant advances in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, standard convolutional kernel neglects the intrinsic connections between data points, resulting in poor region delineation and small spurious predictions. Furthermore, HSIs have a unique continuous data distribution along the high dimensional spectrum domain - much remains to be addressed in characterizing the spectral contexts considering the prohibitively high dimensionality and improving reasoning capability in light of the limited amount of labelled data. This paper presents a novel architecture which explicitly addresses these two issues. Specifically, we design an architecture to encode the multiple spectral contextual information in the form of spectral pyramid of multiple embedding spaces. In each spectral embedding space, we propose graph attention mechanism to explicitly perform interpretable reasoning in the spatial domain based on the connection in spectral feature space. Experiments on three HSI datasets demonstrate that the proposed architecture can significantly improve the classification accuracy compared with the existing methods.
Pyramid Hierarchical Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences（国家计算机与新兴科学大学）；University of Messina（墨西拿大学）；Shaoxing University（绍兴大学）；Innopolis University（因诺波利斯大学）
Cosine-Normalized Attention for Hyperspectral Image Classification
SDAIA-KFUPM, Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (JRCAI), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals（SDAIA-KFUPM联合人工智能研究中心（JRCAI），法赫德国王石油矿产大学）；Institute of Software Development and Engineering, Innopolis University（软件开发和工程学院，因诺波利斯大学）
Redundancy and noise exist in the bands of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Thus, it is a good property to be able to select suitable parts from hundreds of input bands for HSIs classification methods. In this letter, a band attention module (BAM) is proposed to implement the deep learning based HSIs classification with the capacity of band selection or weighting. The proposed BAM can be seen as a plug-and-play complementary component of the existing classification networks which fully considers the adverse effects caused by the redundancy of the bands when using convolutional neural networks (CNN…
Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）
Visual place recognition is challenging in the urban environment and is usually viewed as a large scale image retrieval task. The intrinsic challenges in place recognition exist that the confusing objects such as cars and trees frequently occur in the complex urban scene, and buildings with repetitive structures may cause over-counting and the burstiness problem degrading the image representations. To address these problems, we present an Attention-based Pyramid Aggregation Network (APANet), which is trained in an end-to-end manner for place recognition. One main component of APANet, the spati…
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology（北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
In this paper, we propose an attention pyramid method for person re-identification. Unlike conventional attention-based methods which only learn a global attention map, our attention pyramid exploits the attention regions in a multi-scale manner because human attention varies with different scales. Our attention pyramid imitates the process of human visual perception which tends to notice the foreground person over the cluttered background, and further focus on the specific color of the shirt with close observation. Specifically, we describe our attention pyramid by a "split-attend-merge-stack…
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学）；University of Missouri-Kansas City（密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校）；Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf（亥姆霍兹德累斯顿罗森多夫研究中心）；Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology（亥姆霍兹弗赖贝格资源技术研究所）；University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学帕克分校）
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial features. It is well known that different spectral bands and spatial positions in the cubes have different discriminative abilities. If fully explored, this prior information will help improve the learning capacity of CNNs. Along this direction, we propose an attention aided CNN model for spectral-spatial classification of hyperspectral images. Specifically, a s…
Dynamic Memory Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification
SDAIA-KFUPM, Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (JRCAI), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals（SDAIA-KFUPM联合人工智能研究中心（JRCAI）、国王法赫德石油矿物大学）
EnergyFormer: Energy Attention with Fourier Embedding for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences（计算机科学系，国立计算机与新兴科学大学）；Institute of Software Development and Engineering, Innopolis University（软件开发与工程研究所，因诺波利斯大学）；Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica—MIFT, University of Messina（数学与信息学系—MIFT，墨西拿大学）
A Synergistic CNN-Transformer Network with Pooling Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Image Classification
College of Engineering（工程学院）；School of Electronic Information and Communications（电子信息与通信学院）；Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics（长春光学精密机械与物理研究所）；School of Computer Science and Technology（计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Electrical Engineering（智能制造与电气工程学院）
LGEST: Dynamic Spatial-Spectral Expert Routing for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科学与技术大学信息中心（广州））；Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学地理学部）；School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Guangzhou University（广州大学电子与通信工程学院）
Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学）；Southwest Institute of Electronic Technology（西南电子技术研究所）；Mississippi State University（密西西比州立大学）
Recently, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been developed to explore spatial relationship between pixels, achieving better classification performance of hyperspectral images (HSIs). However, these methods fail to sufficiently leverage the relationship between spectral bands in HSI data. As such, we propose an adaptive cross-attention-driven spatial-spectral graph convolutional network (ACSS-GCN), which is composed of a spatial GCN (Sa-GCN) subnetwork, a spectral GCN (Se-GCN) subnetwork, and a graph cross-attention fusion module (GCAFM). Specifically, Sa-GCN and Se-GCN are proposed to e…
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is the most vibrant area of research in the hyperspectral community due to the rich spectral information contained in HSI can greatly aid in identifying objects of interest. However, inherent non-linearity between materials and the corresponding spectral profiles brings two major challenges in HSI classification: interclass similarity and intraclass variability. Many advanced deep learning methods have attempted to address these issues from the perspective of a region/patch-based approach, instead of a pixel-based alternate. However, the patch-based app…
HS-Mamba: Full-Field Interaction Multi-Groups Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification
College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University（华南农业大学数学与信息学院）；Key Laboratory of Smart Agricultural Technology in Tropical South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs（热带南方智能农业技术重点实验室，农业部）；School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology（华南理工大学化学与化工学院）
LiDAR-Guided Cross-Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Band Selection and Image Classification
School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University（格里菲斯大学信息与通信技术学院）；Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries（昆士兰州农业与渔业厅）
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences（国立计算机与新兴科学大学）；Innopolis University（因诺波利斯大学）；University of Messina（墨西拿大学）；Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College（贾尔派古里政府工程学院）；Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are more suitable, indeed. However, fixed kernel sizes make traditional CNN too specific, neither flexible nor conducive to feature learning, thus impacting on the classification accuracy. The convolution of different kernel size networks may overcome this problem by capturing more discriminating and relevant information. In light of this, the proposed solution aims at combining the core idea of 3D and 2D Inception net with the Attention mechanism to boost the HSIC CNN performance in a hybrid scenario. The resulting \textit{attention-fused hybrid network} (A…
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Bell Labs（贝尔实验室）；CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院青藏高原地球科学卓越创新中心）；School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiao Tong University（西南交通大学经济管理学院）
We consider the problem of segmentation and classification of high-resolution and hyperspectral remote sensing images. Unlike conventional natural (RGB) images, the inherent large scale and complex structures of remote sensing images pose major challenges such as spatial object distribution diversity and spectral information extraction when existing models are directly applied for image classification. In this study, we develop an attention-based pyramid network for segmentation and classification of remote sensing datasets. Attention mechanisms are used to develop the following modules: i) a …
DSXFormer: Dual-Pooling Spectral Squeeze-Expansion and Dynamic Context Attention Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification
School of Computing, Gachon University（加荣大学计算机学院）；School of Computer Science, Chengdu University of Technology（成都理工大学计算机学院）；Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University（卡西姆大学计算机学院信息科技系）；Kore University of Enna（恩纳大学）
CLAReSNet: When Convolution Meets Latent Attention for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), University of Engineering and Management Kolkata, IEM Centre of Excellence for InnovAI, Department of Computer Science & Engineering（工程管理学院（IEM）、工程管理大学科塔卡尔，创新AI研究中心、计算机科学与工程系）；Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), University of Engineering and Management Kolkata, Department of Computer Science & Engineering（工程管理学院（IEM）、工程管理大学科塔卡尔，计算机科学与工程系）
Multi-level Relation Learning for Cross-domain Few-shot Hyperspectral Image Classification
Henan University（河南大学）；Henan Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing（河南省大数据分析与处理重点实验室）；Henan Engineering Laboratory of Spatial Information Processing（河南省空间信息处理工程实验室）；Henan Industrial Technology Academy of Spatio-Temporal Big Data（河南省时空大数据产业技术研究院）
In recent years, neural network-based anomaly detection methods have attracted considerable attention in the hyperspectral remote sensing domain due to the powerful reconstruction ability compared with traditional methods. However, actual probability distribution statistics hidden in the latent space are not discovered by exploiting the reconstruction error because the probability distribution of anomalies is not explicitly modeled. To address the issue, we propose a novel probability distribution representation detector (PDRD) that explores the intrinsic distribution of both the background an…
School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences（中国地质大学计算机学院）
In the proposed SEHybridSN model, a dense block was used to reuse shallow feature and aimed at better exploiting hierarchical spatial spectral feature. Subsequent depth separable convolutional layers were used to discriminate the spatial information. Further refinement of spatial spectral features was realized by the channel attention method, which were performed behind every 3D convolutional layer and every 2D convolutional layer. Experiment results indicate that our proposed model learn more discriminative spatial spectral features using very few training data. SEHybridSN using only 0.05 and…
Recognizing and localizing events in videos is a fundamental task for video understanding. Since events may occur in auditory and visual modalities, multimodal detailed perception is essential for complete scene comprehension. Most previous works attempted to analyze videos from a holistic perspective. However, they do not consider semantic information at multiple scales, which makes the model difficult to localize events in different lengths. In this paper, we present a Multimodal Pyramid Attentional Network (\textbf{MM-Pyramid}) for event localization. Specifically, we first propose the atte…
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；Megvii Inc. (Face++)（旷视科技（Face++））；Peking University（北京大学）
A Pyramid Attention Network(PAN) is proposed to exploit the impact of global contextual information in semantic segmentation. Different from most existing works, we combine attention mechanism and spatial pyramid to extract precise dense features for pixel labeling instead of complicated dilated convolution and artificially designed decoder networks. Specifically, we introduce a Feature Pyramid Attention module to perform spatial pyramid attention structure on high-level output and combining global pooling to learn a better feature representation, and a Global Attention Upsample module on each…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Infrared small target detection is an important problem in many fields such as earth observation, military reconnaissance, disaster relief, and has received widespread attention recently. This paper presents the Attention-Guided Pyramid Context Network (AGPCNet) algorithm. Its main components are an Attention-Guided Context Block (AGCB), a Context Pyramid Module (CPM), and an Asymmetric Fusion Module (AFM). AGCB divides the feature map into patches to compute local associations and uses Global Context Attention (GCA) to compute global associations between semantics, CPM integrates features fro…
University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay（印度理工学院孟买分校）；Facebook AI（脸书人工智能研究院）
We present a novel framework, Spatial Pyramid Attention Network (SPAN) for detection and localization of multiple types of image manipulations. The proposed architecture efficiently and effectively models the relationship between image patches at multiple scales by constructing a pyramid of local self-attention blocks. The design includes a novel position projection to encode the spatial positions of the patches. SPAN is trained on a generic, synthetic dataset but can also be fine tuned for specific datasets; The proposed method shows significant gains in performance on standard datasets over …
Global Big Data Technologies Centre, University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学全球大数据技术中心）
Generating natural sentences from images is a fundamental learning task for visual-semantic understanding in multimedia. In this paper, we propose to apply dual attention on pyramid image feature maps to fully explore the visual-semantic correlations and improve the quality of generated sentences. Specifically, with the full consideration of the contextual information provided by the hidden state of the RNN controller, the pyramid attention can better localize the visually indicative and semantically consistent regions in images. On the other hand, the contextual information can help re-calibr…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）
This paper proposes a Rotation-equivariant Attention Feature Fusion Pyramid Networks for Aerial Object Detection named ReAFFPN. ReAFFPN aims at improving the effect of rotation-equivariant features fusion between adjacent layers which suffers from the semantic and scale discontinuity. Due to the particularity of rotational equivariant convolution, general methods are unable to achieve their original effect while ensuring rotation equivariance of the network. To solve this problem, we design a new Rotation-equivariant Channel Attention which has the ability to both generate channel attention an…
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学计算机科学与技术学院）
Saliency detection is one of the basic challenges in computer vision. How to extract effective features is a critical point for saliency detection. Recent methods mainly adopt integrating multi-scale convolutional features indiscriminately. However, not all features are useful for saliency detection and some even cause interferences. To solve this problem, we propose Pyramid Feature Attention network to focus on effective high-level context features and low-level spatial structural features. First, we design Context-aware Pyramid Feature Extraction (CPFE) module for multi-scale high-level feat…
Deep-learning-based approaches to depth estimation are rapidly advancing, offering superior performance over existing methods. To estimate the depth in real-world scenarios, depth estimation models require the robustness of various noise environments. In this work, a Pyramid Frequency Network(PFN) with Spatial Attention Residual Refinement Module(SARRM) is proposed to deal with the weak robustness of existing deep-learning methods. To reconstruct depth maps with accurate details, the SARRM constructs a residual fusion method with an attention mechanism to refine the blur depth. The frequency d…
Learning pyramidal feature representations is crucial for recognizing object instances at different scales. Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) is the classic architecture to build a feature pyramid with high-level semantics throughout. However, intrinsic defects in feature extraction and fusion inhibit FPN from further aggregating more discriminative features. In this work, we propose Attention Aggregation based Feature Pyramid Network (A^2-FPN), to improve multi-scale feature learning through attention-guided feature aggregation. In feature extraction, it extracts discriminative features by collec…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Meitu（美图公司）；National Computer network Emergency Response technical Team/Coordination Center of China（国家计算机网络应急技术处理协调中心）
Local features at neighboring spatial positions in feature maps have high correlation since their receptive fields are often overlapped. Self-attention usually uses the weighted sum (or other functions) with internal elements of each local feature to obtain its weight score, which ignores interactions among local features. To address this, we propose an effective interaction-aware self-attention model inspired by PCA to learn attention maps. Furthermore, since different layers in a deep network capture feature maps of different scales, we use these feature maps to construct a spatial pyramid a…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；AI Labs, Didi Chuxing（滴滴出行AI实验室）
We propose an augmented Parallel-Pyramid Net ($P^2~Net$) with feature refinement by dilated bottleneck and attention module. During data preprocessing, we proposed a differentiable auto data augmentation ($DA^2$) method. We formulate the problem of searching data augmentaion policy in a differentiable form, so that the optimal policy setting can be easily updated by back propagation during training. $DA^2$ improves the training efficiency. A parallel-pyramid structure is followed to compensate the information loss introduced by the network. We innovate two fusion structures, i.e. Parallel Fusi…
Peking University（北京大学）；Microsoft Research Asia（微软亚洲研究院）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）
In this paper, we present a new Mask R-CNN based text detection approach which can robustly detect multi-oriented and curved text from natural scene images in a unified manner. To enhance the feature representation ability of Mask R-CNN for text detection tasks, we propose to use the Pyramid Attention Network (PAN) as a new backbone network of Mask R-CNN. Experiments demonstrate that PAN can suppress false alarms caused by text-like backgrounds more effectively. Our proposed approach has achieved superior performance on both multi-oriented (ICDAR-2015, ICDAR-2017 MLT) and curved (SCUT-CTW1500)…
Department of Computer Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学计算机科学系）；Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS（中国科学院计算技术研究所中国科学院智能信息处理重点实验室）
Visual speech recognition is the task to decode the speech content from a video based on visual information, especially the movements of lips. It is also referenced as lipreading. Motivated by two problems existing in lipreading, words with similar pronunciation and the variation of word duration, we propose a novel 3D Feature Pyramid Attention (3D-FPA) module to jointly improve the representation power of features in both the spatial and temporal domains. Specifically, the input features are downsampled for 3 times in both the spatial and temporal dimensions to construct spatiotemporal featur…
Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample operations in the top-down pathway. Thus, it can weaken the ability of salient object localization and produce degraded boundaries. To this end, in order to overcome this limitation, we propose a novel pyramid self-attention module (PSAM) and the adoption of an independent feature-complementing strategy. In PSAM, self-attention layers are equipped after multi-s…
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, UCAS（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Didi Chuxing（滴滴出行）
The target of human pose estimation is to determine body part or joint locations of each person from an image. This is a challenging problems with wide applications. To address this issue, this paper proposes an augmented parallel-pyramid net with attention partial module and differentiable auto-data augmentation. Technically, a parallel pyramid structure is proposed to compensate the loss of information. We take the design of parallel structure for reverse compensation. Meanwhile, the overall computational complexity does not increase. We further define an Attention Partial Module (APM) opera…
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；University of Southampton（南安普顿大学）
Chinese herbs play a critical role in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Due to different recognition granularity, they can be recognized accurately only by professionals with much experience. It is expected that they can be recognized automatically using new techniques like machine learning. However, there is no Chinese herbal image dataset available. Simultaneously, there is no machine learning method which can deal with Chinese herbal image recognition well. Therefore, this paper begins with building a new standard Chinese-Herbs dataset. Subsequently, a new Attentional Pyramid Networks (APN) for…
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta（阿尔伯塔大学计算科学系）
CNNs, initially inspired by human vision, differ in a key way: they sample uniformly, rather than with highest density in a focal point. For very large images, this makes training untenable, as the memory and computation required for activation maps scales quadratically with the side length of an image. We propose an image pyramid based approach that extracts narrow glimpses of the of the input image and iteratively refines them to accomplish regression tasks. To assist with high-accuracy regression, we introduce a novel intermediate representation we call 'spatialized features'. Our approach …
Convolution neural netwotks (CNNs) are successfully applied in image recognition task. In this study, we explore the approach of automatic herbal recognition with CNNs and build the standard Chinese herbs datasets firstly. According to the characteristics of herbal images, we proposed the competitive attentional fusion pyramid networks to model the features of herbal image, which mdoels the relationship of feature maps from different levels, and re-weights multi-level channels with channel-wise attention mechanism. In this way, we can dynamically adjust the weight of feature maps from various …
An efficient linear self-attention fusion model is proposed in this paper for the task of hyperspectral image (HSI) and LiDAR data joint classification. The proposed method is comprised of a feature extraction module, an attention module, and a fusion module. The attention module is a plug-and-play linear self-attention module that can be extensively used in any model. The proposed model has achieved the overall accuracy of 95.40\% on the Houston dataset. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over other state-of-the-art models.
Recently, it has been demonstrated that the performance of a deep convolutional neural network can be effectively improved by embedding an attention module into it. In this work, a novel lightweight and effective attention method named Pyramid Squeeze Attention (PSA) module is proposed. By replacing the 3x3 convolution with the PSA module in the bottleneck blocks of the ResNet, a novel representational block named Efficient Pyramid Squeeze Attention (EPSA) is obtained. The EPSA block can be easily added as a plug-and-play component into a well-established backbone network, and significant impr…
Pyramid Forcing: Head-Aware Pyramid KV Cache Policy for High-Quality Long Video Generation
Peking University（北京大学）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；Xinjiang University（新疆大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Zhongguancun Academy（中关村学院）
