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SCA-CNN: Spatial and Channel-Wise Attention in Convolutional Networks for Image Captioning

CVPR 2017 · Architectures and efficiency › CNN design · approach: Efficient CNN scaling and dynamic inference · 2,085 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Combine channel-wise and spatial attention, with channel attention applied first (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr8KB@4: 20.5 -> 25.7Helped
Combine channel-wise and spatial attention, with channel attention applied first (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr30KB@4: 20.5 -> 22.1Helped
Combine channel-wise and spatial attention, with channel attention applied first (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · MSCOCOB@4: 28.3 -> 30.4Helped
Apply spatial attention before channel-wise attention instead of channel-wise attention first (ablation)Combined-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · MSCOCOB@4: 29.8 -> 30.4Hurt
Add a third spatial-attention layer (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr8KB@4: 20.5 -> 23.9Helped
Add a third spatial-attention layer (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr30KB@4: 20.5 -> 21.0Helped
Add a third spatial-attention layer (ablation)Spatial-attention captioner using ResNet-152 · MSCOCOB@4: 28.3 -> 29.6Helped
Add a third channel-spatial attention layer instead of using two layers (ablation)C-S captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr8KB@4: 25.8 -> 25.3Hurt
Add a third channel-spatial attention layer instead of using two layers (ablation)C-S captioner using ResNet-152 · Flickr30KB@4: 22.3 -> 22.0Hurt
Add a third channel-spatial attention layer instead of using two layers (ablation)C-S captioner using ResNet-152 · MSCOCOB@4: 31.1 -> 30.9Hurt
Use the proposed two-layer C-S model instead of the strongest listed baselineImage captioning · Flickr8KB@4: 21.3 -> 25.8Helped
Use the proposed two-layer C-S model instead of the strongest listed baselineImage captioning · Flickr30KB@4: 23.0 -> 22.3Hurt

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