CGFTNet: Content-Guided Frequency Domain Transform Network for Face Super-Resolution by Yeerlan Yekeben, Shuli Cheng, Anyu Du

“…Recent advancements in face super resolution (FSR) have been propelled by deep learning techniques using convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, existing methods still struggle with effectively capturing global facial structure information, leading to reduced fidelity in reconstructed images, and often require additional manual data annotation. …”
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Lightweight human activity recognition method based on the MobileHARC model by Xingyu Gong, Xinyang Zhang, Na Li

“…However, due to the fact that these models have sequential network structures and are unable to simultaneously focus on local and global features, thus, resulting in a reduction in recognition performance. …”
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HMA-Net: a hybrid mixer framework with multihead attention for breast ultrasound image segmentation by Soumya Sara Koshy, L. Jani Anbarasi

“…The model achieved a Jaccard index of 98.04% and 94.84% and a Dice similarity coefficient of 99.01% and 97.35% on the BUSI and BrEaST datasets, respectively.DiscussionThe ConvMixer and ConvNeXT modules are integrated with convolution-enhanced multihead attention, which enhances the model's ability to capture local and global contextual information. …”
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Rotten strawberry classification based on EfficientNet V2 algorithm fused with GCN and CA-Transformer by WANG Wei, YANG Shizhong, GONG Yucheng, GAO Sheng, DENG Zhaopeng

“…Secondly, this study integrated the Transformer structure with attention into the backbone of the baseline model, replacing some convolution operations with this structure to achieve the fusion of global and local features, thereby better identifying the rottenness of strawberries. …”
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LEAD-YOLO: A Lightweight and Accurate Network for Small Object Detection in Autonomous Driving by Yunchuan Yang, Shubin Yang, Qiqing Chan

“…The proposed framework incorporates three innovative components: First, the Backbone integrates a lightweight Convolutional Gated Transformer (CGF) module, which employs normalized gating mechanisms with residual connections, and a Dilated Feature Fusion (DFF) structure that enables progressive multi-scale context modeling through dilated convolutions. …”
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Multiscale Graph Transformer Network With Dynamic Superpixel Pyramid for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Tingting Wang, Yao Sun, Yunfeng Hu

“…To address these limitations, we propose a multi-scale graph transformer network (MSGTN), which captures spatial features at different scales through multiscale graph convolutional networks (GCNs) with adaptive graph structures. …”
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A Hybrid Learnable Fusion of ConvNeXt and Swin Transformer for Optimized Image Classification by Jaber Qezelbash-Chamak, Karen Hicklin

“…However, each paradigm alone is limited in addressing both fine-grained structures and broader anatomical context. We propose ConvTransGFusion, a hybrid model that fuses ConvNeXt (for refined convolutional features) and Swin Transformer (for hierarchical global attention) using a learnable dual-attention gating mechanism. …”
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RETINA: Reconstruction-based pre-trained enhanced TransUNet for electron microscopy segmentation on the CEM500K dataset. by Cheng Xing, Ronald Xie, Gary D Bader

“…We developed the RETINA method, which combines pre-training on the large, unlabeled CEM500K EM image dataset with a hybrid neural-network model architecture that integrates both local (convolutional layer) and global (transformer layer) image processing to learn from manual image annotations. …”
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Attention residual network for medical ultrasound image segmentation by Honghua Liu, Peiqin Zhang, Jiamin Hu, Yini Huang, Shanshan Zuo, Lu Li, Mailan Liu, Chang She

“…Additionally, a spatial hybrid convolution module is integrated to augment the model’s ability to extract global information and deepen the vertical architecture of the network. …”
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A New Hybrid ConvViT Model for Dangerous Farm Insect Detection by Anil Utku, Mahmut Kaya, Yavuz Canbay

“…This study proposes a novel hybrid convolution and vision transformer model (ConvViT) designed to detect harmful insect species that adversely affect agricultural production and play a critical role in global food security. …”
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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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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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Dual-branch attention network-based stereoscopicvideo compression by TANG Shu, ZHAO Yu, YANG Shuli, XIE Xian-Zhong

“…First, a Local and Global Encoder-decoder Block (LGEDB) based on Transformer and channel attention was proposed, which accurately captured non-repetitive texture details in local regions and global structural information by integrating pixel-level self-attention within each local area and global attention across channels. …”
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A Dual-Stream Dental Panoramic X-Ray Image Segmentation Method Based on Transformer Heterogeneous Feature Complementation by Tian Ma, Jiahui Li, Zhenrui Dang, Yawen Li, Yuancheng Li

“…Furthermore, a Pooling-Cooperative Convolutional Module was designed, which enhances the model’s capability in detail extraction and boundary localization through weighted centroid features of dental structures and a latent edge extraction module. …”
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Fusion of Recurrence Plots and Gramian Angular Fields with Bayesian Optimization for Enhanced Time-Series Classification by Maria Mariani, Prince Appiah, Osei Tweneboah

“…Time-series classification remains a critical task across various domains, demanding models that effectively capture both local recurrence structures and global temporal dependencies. We introduce a novel framework that transforms time series into image representations by fusing recurrence plots (RPs) with both Gramian Angular Summation Fields (GASFs) and Gramian Angular Difference Fields (GADFs). …”
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Non-end-to-end adaptive graph learning for multi-scale temporal traffic flow prediction. by Kang Xu, Bin Pan, MingXin Zhang, Xuan Zhang, XiaoYu Hou, JingXian Yu, ZhiZhu Lu, Xiao Zeng, QingQing Jia

“…The method incorporates a multi-scale temporal attention module and a multi-scale temporal convolution module to extract multi-scale information. …”
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Improved Asynchronous Federated Learning for Data Injection Pollution by Aiyou Li, Huoyou Li, Yanfang Liu, Guoli Ji

“…In our approach, the residual network is used to extract the static information of the image, the capsule network is used to extract the spatial dependence among the internal structures of the image, several layers of convolution are used to reduce the dimensions of both features, and the two extracted features are fused. …”
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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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3D-SCUMamba: An Abdominal Tumor Segmentation Model by Juwita, Ghulam Mubashar Hassan, Amitava Datta

“…Existing deep learning models typically adopt encoder-decoder architectures integrating convolutional layers with global dependency modeling to capture broader contextual information around tumors. …”
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Foreign object detection on coal conveyor belt enhanced by attention mechanism by ZHANG Yang, CHENG Zhiyu, CHEN Yunjiang, ZHANG Jiannan, YUAN Wensheng, ZHANG Hui

“…A unique combination of convolution and pooling operations was used by the CPCA attention mechanism to perform global average pooling and maximum pooling on the input feature map, multi-dimensional feature information was deeply mined, and then attention weights for each channel and spatial position were accurately generated through nonlinear transformation, guiding the model to focus on the key feature areas of foreign objects and enhance feature extraction capabilities. …”
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