Abstract
Computer vision systems are insensitive to the scale of objects in natural scenes, so it is important to study the multi-scale representation of features. Res2Net implements hierarchical multi-scale convolution in residual blocks, but its random grouping method affects the robustness and intuitive interpretability of the network. We propose a new multi-scale convolution model based on multiple attention. It introduces the attention mechanism into the structure of a Res2-block to better guide feature expression. First, we adopt channel attention to score channels and sort them in descending order of the feature’s importance (Channels-Sort). The sorted residual blocks are grouped and intra-block hierarchically convolved to form a single attention and multi-scale block (AMS-block). Then, we implement channel attention on the residual small blocks to constitute a dual attention and multi-scale block (DAMS-block). Introducing spatial attention before sorting the channels to form multi-attention multi-scale blocks(MAMS-block). A MAMS-convolutional neural network (CNN) is a series of multiple MAMS-blocks. It enables significant information to be expressed at more levels, and can also be easily grafted into different convolutional structures. Limited by hardware conditions, we only prove the validity of the proposed ideas through convolutional networks of the same magnitude. The experimental results show that the convolution model with an attention mechanism and multi-scale features is superior in image classification.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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15 articles.
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