RFAConv: Innovating Spatial Attention and Standard Convolutional Operation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03198v6
• Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:07:44 GMT
• Title: RFAConv: Innovating Spatial Attention and Standard Convolutional Operation
• Authors: Xin Zhang, Chen Liu, Degang Yang, Tingting Song, Yichen Ye, Ke Li, Yingze Song,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel attention mechanism called Receptive-Field Attention (RFA) RFA focuses on the receptive-field spatial feature but also provides effective attention weights for large-size convolutional kernels. It offers nearly negligible increment of computational cost and parameters, while significantly improving network performance.
• Score: 7.2646541547165056
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Spatial attention has been widely used to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks. However, it has certain limitations. In this paper, we propose a new perspective on the effectiveness of spatial attention, which is that the spatial attention mechanism essentially solves the problem of convolutional kernel parameter sharing. However, the information contained in the attention map generated by spatial attention is not sufficient for large-size convolutional kernels. Therefore, we propose a novel attention mechanism called Receptive-Field Attention (RFA). Existing spatial attention, such as Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) and Coordinated Attention (CA) focus only on spatial features, which does not fully address the problem of convolutional kernel parameter sharing. In contrast, RFA not only focuses on the receptive-field spatial feature but also provides effective attention weights for large-size convolutional kernels. The Receptive-Field Attention convolutional operation (RFAConv), developed by RFA, represents a new approach to replace the standard convolution operation. It offers nearly negligible increment of computational cost and parameters, while significantly improving network performance. We conducted a series of experiments on ImageNet-1k, COCO, and VOC datasets to demonstrate the superiority of our approach. Of particular importance, we believe that it is time to shift focus from spatial features to receptive-field spatial features for current spatial attention mechanisms. In this way, we can further improve network performance and achieve even better results. The code and pre-trained models for the relevant tasks can be found at https://github.com/Liuchen1997/RFAConv.

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