Cited by 1,002Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsVisual Attention and Saliency DetectionDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Exploring Self-Attention for Image Recognition

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Zhao, Hengshuang, Jia, Jiaya, Koltun, Vladlen·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Recent work has shown that self-attention can serve as a basic building block for image recognition models. We explore variations of self-attention and assess their effectiveness for image recognition. We consider two forms of self-attention. One is pairwise self-attention, which generalizes standard dot-product attention and is fundamentally a set operator. The other is patchwise self-attention, which is strictly more powerful than convolution. Our pairwise self-attention networks match or outperform their convolutional counterparts, and the patchwise models substantially outperform the convolutional baselines. We also conduct experiments that probe the robustness of learned representations and conclude that self-attention networks may have significant benefits in terms of robustness and generalization.

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Authors
Zhao, H., Jia, J., & Koltun, V.
Affiliations
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
  • Intel (United States) (US)
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
10073-10082
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3034885317
Cited by
1,002
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 50 · 2025: 142 · 2024: 191 · 2023: 232 · 2022: 209 · 2021: 157 · 2020: 21
FWCI
47.68
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
  • Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
self-attention, image recognition, dot-product attention, set operators, convolutional neural networks, representation robustness, generalization

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