A VAN-Based Multi-Scale Cross-Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation Network by Shuang Liu, Zeng Zhuang, Yanfeng Zheng, Simon Kolmanic

“…Although many neural networks based on U-shaped structures and methods, such as skip connections have achieved excellent results in medical image segmentation tasks, the properties of convolutional operations limit their ability to effectively learn local and global features. …”
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A Lightweight and Rapid Dragon Fruit Detection Method for Harvesting Robots by Fei Yuan, Jinpeng Wang, Wenqin Ding, Song Mei, Chenzhe Fang, Sunan Chen, Hongping Zhou

“…The method builds upon YOLOv10 and integrates Gated Convolution (gConv) into the C2f module, forming a novel C2f-gConv structure that effectively reduces model parameters and computational complexity. …”
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BiEHFFNet: A Water Body Detection Network for SAR Images Based on Bi-Encoder and Hybrid Feature Fusion by Bin Han, Xin Huang, Feng Xue

“…First, a bi-encoder structure based on ResNet and Swin Transformer is used to jointly extract local spatial details and global contextual information, enhancing feature representation in complex scenarios. …”
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StomaYOLO: A Lightweight Maize Phenotypic Stomatal Cell Detector Based on Multi-Task Training by Ziqi Yang, Yiran Liao, Ziao Chen, Zhenzhen Lin, Wenyuan Huang, Yanxi Liu, Yuling Liu, Yamin Fan, Jie Xu, Lijia Xu, Jiong Mu

“…Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.), a vital global food crop, relies on its stomatal structure for regulating photosynthesis and responding to drought. …”
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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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EFINet: Efficient Feature Interaction Network for Real-Time RGB-D Semantic Segmentation by Zhe Yang, Baozhong Mu, Mingxun Wang, Xin Wang, Jie Xu, Baolu Yang, Cheng Yang, Hong Li, Rongqi Lv

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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&#x2013;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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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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Bearing fault diagnosis based on efficient cross space multiscale CNN transformer parallelism by Qi Chen, Feng Zhang, Yin Wang, Qing Yu, Genfeng Lang, Lixiong Zeng

“…Subsequently, parallel branches are employed to extract spatio-temporal features: the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) branch integrates a multiscale feature extraction module, a Reversed Residual Structure (RRS), and an Efficient Multiscale Attention (EMA) mechanism to enhance local and global feature extraction capabilities; the Transformer branch combines Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (BiGRU) and Transformer to capture both local temporal dynamics and long-term dependencies. …”
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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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Infrared object detection for robot vision based on multiple focus diffusion and task interaction alignment by Jixu Zhang, Li Wang, Hung-Wei Li, Meng-Yen Hsieh, Shunxiang Zhang, Hua Wen, Meng Chen

“…The feature extraction module adopts a dual-stream fusion structure in the backbone network, which combines the local feature extraction of CNN with the global feature modeling of transformer. …”
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Edge-aware joint neural denoising and normal estimation for mobile and handheld laser point clouds by T. Zhang, S. Filin

“…To extract contextual information it introduces densely packed graph convolution layers and a global attention mechanism. …”
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SSATNet: Spectral-spatial attention transformer for hyperspectral corn image classification by Bin Wang, Gongchao Chen, Juan Wen, Linfang Li, Songlin Jin, Yan Li, Ling Zhou, Weidong Zhang

“…Specifically, SSATNet utilizes 3D and 2D convolutions to effectively extract local spatial, spectral, and textural features from the data while incorporating spectral and spatial morphological structures to understand the internal structure of the data better. …”
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VM-UNet++ research on crack image segmentation based on improved VM-UNet by Wenliang Tang, Ziyi Wu, Wei Wang, Youqin Pan, Weihua Gan

“…Abstract Cracks are common defects in physical structures, and if not detected and addressed in a timely manner, they can pose a severe threat to the overall safety of the structure. …”
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A lightweight high-frequency mamba network for image super-resolution by Tao Wu, Wei Xu, Yajuan Wu

“…Various methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and Transformer structures have emerged, but few studies have mentioned how to combine these two parts of information. …”
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Vision Mamba and xLSTM-UNet for medical image segmentation by Xin Zhong, Gehao Lu, Hao Li

“…To address these limitations, this study introduces VMAXL-UNet, a novel segmentation network that integrates Structured State Space Models (SSM) and lightweight LSTMs (xLSTM). …”
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TFF-Net: A Feature Fusion Graph Neural Network-Based Vehicle Type Recognition Approach for Low-Light Conditions by Huizhi Xu, Wenting Tan, Yamei Li, Yue Tian

“…The model employs multi-scale convolutional operations combined with an Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module to extract discriminative local features, while independent convolutional layers capture hierarchical global representations. …”
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Generation driven understanding of localized 3D scenes with 3D diffusion model by Hao Sun, Junping Qin, Zheng Liu, Xinglong Jia, Kai Yan, Lei Wang, Zhiqiang Liu, Shaofei Gong

“…However, the existing diffusion models primarily focus on the global structure and are constrained by predefined dataset categories, which are unable to accurately resolve the detailed structure of complex 3D scenes. …”
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