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Selective feature connection mechanism: Concatenating multi-layer CNN features with a feature selector.
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Pattern Recognition Letters . Jan2020, Vol. 129, p108-114. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- • We propose a novel method termed SFCM to fuse CNNs features of different layers. • Our SFCM can be implemented by direct connection and residual connection. • Our SFCM can be used in many existing frameworks to achieve better performance. • We evaluate the SFCM on many different challenging computer vision tasks. Different layers of deep convolutional neural networks(CNNs) can encode different-level information. High-layer features always contain more semantic information, and low-layer features contain more detail information. However, low-layer features suffer from the background clutter and semantic ambiguity. During visual recognition, the feature combination of the low-layer and high-level features plays an important role in context modulation. If directly combining the high-layer and low-layer features, the background clutter and semantic ambiguity may be caused due to the introduction of detailed information. In this paper, we propose a general network architecture to concatenate CNN features of different layers in a simple and effective way, called Selective Feature Connection Mechanism (SFCM). Low-level features are selectively linked to high-level features with a feature selector which is generated by high-level features. The proposed connection mechanism can effectively overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks. We demonstrate the effectiveness, superiority, and universal applicability of this method on multiple challenging computer vision tasks, including image classification, scene text detection, and image-to-image translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ARTIFICIAL neural networks
*COMPUTER vision
*MACHINE translating
*TEXT recognition
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01678655
- Volume :
- 129
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140935703
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2019.11.015