• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a dual-structured self-attention method that improves the lack of regional features of the vision transformer's self-attention. Vision Transformers, which are more computationally efficient than convolutional neural networks in object classification, object segmentation, and video image recognition, lack the ability to extract regional features relatively. To solve this problem, many studies are conducted based on Windows or Shift Windows, but these methods weaken the advantages of self-attention-based transformers by increasing computational complexity using multiple levels of encoders. This paper proposes a dual-structure self-attention using self-attention and neighborhood network to improve locality inductive bias compared to the existing method. The neighborhood network for extracting local context information provides a much simpler computational complexity than the window structure. CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 were used to compare the performance of the proposed dual-structure self-attention transformer and the existing transformer, and the experiment showed improvements of 0.63% and 1.57% in Top-1 accuracy, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.721-739
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• 2023

Rating prediction is an important issue in recommender systems, and its accuracy affects the experience of the user and the revenue of the company. Traditional recommender systems use Factorization Machinesfor rating predictions and each feature is selected with the same weight. Thus, there are problems with inaccurate ratings and limited data representation. This study proposes a deep recommendation model based on self-attention Factorization (SAFMR) to solve these problems. This model uses Convolutional Neural Networks to extract features from user and item reviews. The obtained features are fed into self-attention mechanism Factorization Machines, where the self-attention network automatically learns the dependencies of the features and distinguishes the weights of the different features, thereby reducing the prediction error. The model was experimentally evaluated using six classes of dataset. We compared MSE, NDCG and time for several real datasets. The experiment demonstrated that the SAFMR model achieved excellent rating prediction results and recommendation correlations, thereby verifying the effectiveness of the model.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.182-189
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• 2023

Depth estimation is a key technology in 3D map generation for autonomous driving of vehicles, robots, and drones. The existing sensor-based method has high accuracy but is expensive and has low resolution, while the camera-based method is more affordable with higher resolution. In this study, we propose self-attention-based unsupervised monocular depth estimation for UAV camera system. Self-Attention operation is applied to the network to improve the global feature extraction performance. In addition, we reduce the weight size of the self-attention operation for a low computational amount. The estimated depth and camera pose are transformed into point cloud. The point cloud is mapped into 3D map using the occupancy grid of Octree structure. The proposed network is evaluated using synthesized images and depth sequences from the Mid-Air dataset. Our network demonstrates a 7.69% reduction in error compared to prior studies.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.2115-2127
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• 2021

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing visually realistic face images by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks effective approaches to provide fine-grained control over the generation process for semantic facial attribute editing. In this work, we propose a novel cross channel self-attention based generative adversarial network (CCA-GAN), which weights the importance of multiple channels of features and archives pixel-level feature alignment and conversion, to reduce the impact on irrelevant attributes while editing the target attributes. Evaluation results show that CCA-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art models on the CelebA dataset, reducing Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID) by 15~28% and 25~100%, respectively. Furthermore, visualization of generated samples confirms the effect of disentanglement of the proposed model.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.362-367
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 Self-Attention을 활용한 딥러닝 기반 문맥의존 철자오류 교정 모델을 제안한다. 문맥의존 철자오류 교정은 최근 철자오류 교정 분야에서 활발히 연구되고 있는 문제 중 하나이다. 기존에는 규칙 기반, 확률 기반, 임베딩을 활용한 철자오류 교정이 연구되었으나, 아직 양질의 교정을 수행해내기에는 많은 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존 교정 모델들의 단점을 보완하기 위해 Self-Attention을 활용한 문맥의존 철자오류 교정 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델은 Self-Attention을 활용하여 기존의 임베딩 정보에 문맥 의존적 정보가 반영된 더 나은 임베딩을 생성하는 역할을 한다. 전체 문장의 정보가 반영된 새로운 임베딩을 활용하여 동적으로 타겟 단어와의 관련 단어들을 찾아 문맥의존 철자 오류교정을 시행한다. 본 논문에서는 성능평가를 위해 세종 말뭉치를 평가 데이터로 이용하여 제안 모델을 실험하였고, 비정형화된 구어체(Kakao Talk) 말뭉치로도 평가 데이터를 구축해 실험한 결과 비교 모델보다 높은 정확율과 재현율의 성능향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.493-495
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• 2023

Deep learning methods and attention mechanisms have been incorporated to improve facial emotion recognition, which has recently attracted much attention. The fusion approaches have improved accuracy by combining various types of information. This research proposes a fusion network with self-attention and local attention mechanisms. It uses a multi-layer perceptron network. The network extracts distinguishing characteristics from facial images using pre-trained models on RAF-DB dataset. We outperform the other fusion methods on RAD-DB dataset with impressive results.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.483-489
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• 2020

This paper proposes acoustic model training using self-attention for low-resource speech recognition. In low-resource speech recognition, it is difficult for acoustic model to distinguish certain phones. For example, plosive /d/ and /t/, plosive /g/ and /k/ and affricate /z/ and /ch/. In acoustic model training, the self-attention generates attention weights from the deep neural network model. In this study, these weights handle the similar pronunciation error for low-resource speech recognition. When the proposed method was applied to Time Delay Neural Network-Output gate Projected Gated Recurrent Unit (TNDD-OPGRU)-based acoustic model, the proposed model showed a 5.98 % word error rate. It shows absolute improvement of 0.74 % compared with TDNN-OPGRU model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2024.01a
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• pp.45-46
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 Self-Attention 기반 딥러닝 기법인 Dense Prediction Transformer(DPT) 모델을 MVTec Anomaly Detection(MVTec AD) 데이터셋에 적용하여 실제 산업 제품 이미지 내 이상 부분을 분할하는 연구를 진행하였다. DPT 모델의 적용을 통해 기존 Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) 기반 이상 탐지기법의 한계점인 지역적 Feature 추출 및 고정된 수용영역으로 인한 문제를 개선하였으며, 실제 산업 제품 데이터에서의 이상 분할 시 기존 주력 기법인 U-Net의 구조를 적용한 최고 성능의 모델보다 1.14%만큼의 성능 향상을 보임에 따라 Self-Attention 기반 딥러닝 기법의 적용이 산업 제품 이상 분할에 효과적임을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.419-428
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• 2021

Shadow removal plays a key role for the pre-processing of image processing techniques such as object tracking and detection. With the advances of image recognition based on deep convolution neural networks, researches for shadow removal have been actively conducted. In this paper, we propose a novel method for shadow removal, which utilizes self attention distillation to extract semantic features. The proposed method gradually refines results of shadow detection, which are extracted from each layer of the proposed network, via top-down distillation. Specifically, the training procedure can be efficiently performed by learning the contextual information for shadow removal without shadow masks. Experimental results on various datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method for shadow removal under real world environments.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.425-430
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• 2022

As robots are considered one of the mainstream digital transformations, robots with machine vision becomes a main area of study providing the ability to check what robots watch and make decisions based on it. However, it is difficult to find a small object in the image mainly due to the flaw of the most of visual recognition networks. Because visual recognition networks are mostly convolution neural network which usually consider local features. So, we make a model considering not only local feature, but also global feature. In this paper, we propose a detection method of a small marker on the object using deep learning and an algorithm that considers global features by combining Transformer's self-attention technique with a convolutional neural network. We suggest a self-attention model with new definition of Query, Key and Value for model to learn global feature and simplified equation by getting rid of position vector and classification token which cause the model to be heavy and slow. Finally, we show that our model achieves higher mAP than state of the art model YOLOr.