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Non-Local Neural Networks (FB AI Research/C. Mellon U) (arxiv.org)
2 points by Katydid on Nov 27, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Instead of checking only nearby pixels or frames, this block lets every spot pull information from all other spots, weighted by relevance, so long-range connections are captured. It matched or beat top video classifiers and improved object detection, segmentation, and pose estimation.

Abstract · Non-local Neural Networks

Both convolutional and recurrent operations are building blocks that process one local neighborhood at a time. In this paper, we present non-local operations as a generic family of building blocks for capturing long-range dependencies. Inspired by the classical non-local means method in computer vision, our non-local operation computes the response at a position as a weighted sum of the features at all positions. This building block can be plugged into many computer vision architectures. On the task of video classification, even without any bells and whistles, our non-local models can compete or outperform current competition winners on both Kinetics and Charades datasets. In static image recognition, our non-local models improve object detection/segmentation and pose estimation on the COCO suite of tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/video-nonlocal-net .

Xiaolong Wang, Ross Girshick, Abhinav Gupta, Kaiming He
arXiv:1711.07971 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 21, 2017 · updated Apr 13, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · CVPR 2018, code is available at: https://github.com/facebookresearch/video-nonlocal-net

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