YOLOv8n-WSE-Pest: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model Based on YOLOv8n for Pest Identification in Tea Gardens by Hongxu Li, Wenxia Yuan, Yuxin Xia, Zejun Wang, Junjie He, Qiaomei Wang, Shihao Zhang, Limei Li, Fang Yang, Baijuan Wang

“…The addition of the Spatial and Channel Reconstruction Convolution structure in the Backbone layer reduces redundant spatial and channel features, thereby reducing the model’s complexity. …”
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GHFormer-Net: Towards more accurate small green apple/begonia fruit detection in the nighttime by Meili Sun, Liancheng Xu, Rong Luo, Yuqi Lu, Weikuan Jia

“…Specifically, PVTv2-B1 based on Transformer is applied as the backbone network to extract feature information from the global receptive, which breaks the limitation that spatial convolution is utilized to extract information from the local area; Next, with the help of FPN, shallow features and high-level features with rich semantic information are incorporated by lateral connections and a top-down structure to generate multi-scale feature maps; Then, a detector of RetinaNet is applied to detect green fruits. …”
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MCGFE-CR: Cloud Removal With Multiscale Context-Guided Feature Enhancement Network by Qiang Bie, Xiaojie Su

“…Currently, cloud removal methods with better performance are mainly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, they fail to capture global context information, resulting in the loss of global context features in image reconstruction. …”
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An Efficient Semantic Segmentation Framework with Attention-Driven Context Enhancement and Dynamic Fusion for Autonomous Driving by Jia Tian, Peizeng Xin, Xinlu Bai, Zhiguo Xiao, Nianfeng Li

“…Recognizing the limitations of convolutional networks in modeling long-range dependencies and capturing global semantic context, the model incorporates an attention-based feature extraction component. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…Unlike traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers capture global context from the first layer, enabling more comprehensive image representation, which is crucial for identifying subtle nodule boundaries. …”
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Fine-Grained Extraction of Coastal Aquaculture Ponds From Remote Sensing Images Using an Edge-Supervised Multi-task Neural Network by Jian Qi, Min Ji, Fengxiang Jin, Jianran Xu, Hanyu Ji, Juan Wang

“…It notably enhances performance in complex environments and significantly boosts generalization capabilities by learning global structural features. First, a shared encoder–decoder architecture was constructed, leveraging large kernel depthwise separable convolution and residual optimization, thereby enhancing both local and global feature representations. …”
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HDF-Net: Hierarchical Dual-Branch Feature Extraction Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion by Yanghang Zhu, Mingsheng Huang, Yaohua Zhu, Jingyu Jiang, Yong Zhang

“…Remarkably, we propose a pin-wheel-convolutional transformer (PCT) module that integrates local convolutional processing with directional attention to improve low-frequency feature extraction, thereby enabling more robust global–local context modeling. …”
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RMIS-Net: a fast medical image segmentation network based on multilayer perceptron by Binbin Zhang, Guoliang Xu, Yiying Xing, Nanjie Li, Deguang Li

“…To address the persistent challenges of computational complexity and efficiency limitations in existing methods, we propose RMIS-Net—an innovative lightweight segmentation network with three core components: a convolutional layer for preliminary feature extraction, a shift-based fully connected layer for parameter-efficient spatial modeling, and a tokenized multilayer perceptron for global context capture. …”
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Novel Deep Learning Framework for Evaporator Tube Leakage Estimation in Supercharged Boiler by Yulong Xue, Dongliang Li, Yu Song, Shaojun Xia, Jingxing Wu

“…To address these issues, this study proposes a novel deep learning framework (LSTM-CNN–attention), combining a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network with a dual-pathway spatial feature extraction structure (ACNN) that includes an attention mechanism(attention) and a 1D convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) parallel pathway. …”
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Dynamic atrous attention and dual branch context fusion for cross scale Building segmentation in high resolution remote sensing imagery by Yaohui Liu, Shuzhe Zhang, Xinkai Wang, Rui Zhai, Hu Jiang, Lingjia Kong

“…Among them, we introduced the Shift Operation module and the Self-Attention module, which adopt a dual-branch structure to respectively capture local spatial dependencies and global correlations, and perform weight coupling to achieve highly complementary contextual information fusion. …”
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Inpainting of damaged temple murals using edge- and line-guided diffusion patch GAN by G. Sumathi, M. Uma Devi

“…The WSFN uses the original image, a line drawing, and an edge map to capture mural details, which are then texturally inpainted in the SCN using gated convolution for enhanced results. Special attention is given to globally extending the receptive field for large-area inpainting. …”
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FingerDTA: A Fingerprint-Embedding Framework for Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction by Xuekai Zhu, Juan Liu, Jian Zhang, Zhihui Yang, Feng Yang, Xiaolei Zhang

“…Owing to the structural limitations of CNN, features extracted from this method are local patterns that lack global information. …”
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Attention-Enhanced Hybrid Automatic Modulation Classification for Advanced Wireless Communication Systems: A Deep Learning-Transformer Framework by Sam Ansari, Khawla A. Alnajjar, Sohaib Majzoub, Eqab Almajali, Anwar Jarndal, Talal Bonny, Abir Hussain, Soliman Mahmoud

“…To address these limitations, this paper presents a novel attention-enhanced hybrid AMC framework that synergistically integrates specialized convolutional layers for efficient temporal feature extraction with a compact transformer encoder for global sequence modeling. …”
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CGD-CD: A Contrastive Learning-Guided Graph Diffusion Model for Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Yang Shang, Zicheng Lei, Keming Chen, Qianqian Li, Xinyu Zhao

“…However, most SSL algorithms for CD in remote sensing image rely on convolutional neural networks with fixed receptive fields as their feature extraction backbones, which limits their ability to capture objects of varying scales and model global contextual information in complex scenes. …”
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SCCA-YOLO: Spatial Channel Fusion and Context-Aware YOLO for Lunar Crater Detection by Jiahao Tang, Boyuan Gu, Tianyou Li, Ying-Bo Lu

“…Specifically, the Context-Aware Module (CAM) employs a multi-branch dilated convolutional structure to enhance feature richness and expand the local receptive field, thereby strengthening the feature extraction capability. …”
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Rice Disease Detection: TLI-YOLO Innovative Approach for Enhanced Detection and Mobile Compatibility by Zhuqi Li, Wangyu Wu, Bingcai Wei, Hao Li, Jingbo Zhan, Songtao Deng, Jian Wang

“…As a key global food reserve, rice disease detection technology plays an important role in promoting food production, protecting ecological balance and supporting sustainable agricultural development. …”
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Design of an Iterative Method for Malware Detection Using Autoencoders and Hybrid Machine Learning Models by Rijvan Beg, R. K. Pateriya, Deepak Singh Tomar

“…With the addition of Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDT) to features derived from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), we further improve the capability of the model. …”
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Towards precision agriculture tea leaf disease detection using CNNs and image processing by Irfan Sadiq Rahat, Hritwik Ghosh, Suresh Dara, Shashi Kant

“…Our model’s architecture is not just a testament to the sophistication of modern deep learning techniques but also highlights the novelty of applying such complex structures to the challenges of agricultural disease detection. …”
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Data-Enabled Intelligence in Complex Industrial Systems Cross-Model Transformer Method for Medical Image Synthesis by Zebin Hu, Hao Liu, Zhendong Li, Zekuan Yu

“…Recently, generative adversarial network (GAN) models are applied to many medical image synthesis tasks and show prior performance, since they enable to capture structural details clearly. However, GAN still builds the main framework based on convolutional neural network (CNN) that exhibits a strong locality bias and spatial invariance through the use of shared weights across all positions. …”
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SwinCNet leveraging Swin Transformer V2 and CNN for precise color correction and detail enhancement in underwater image restoration by Chun Yang, Liwei Shao, Yi Deng, Jiahang Wang, Hexiang Zhai

“…Current methods face difficulties in effectively balancing local detail preservation with global information integration. This study proposes SwinCNet, an innovative deep learning architecture that incorporates an enhanced Swin Transformer V2 following primary convolutional layers to achieve synergistic processing of local details and global dependencies. …”
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