{"url":"/method/cagam","slug":"cagam","name":"Class Activation Guided Attention Mechanism","full_name":"Class Activation Guided Attention Mechanism (CAGAM)","full_name_withheld":false,"description_markdown":"CAGAM is a form of spatial attention mechanism that propagates attention from a known to an unknown context features thereby enhancing the unknown context for relevant pattern discovery. Usually the known context feature is a class activation map ([CAM](https://paperswithcode.com/method/cam)).","description_state":"present","introduced_year":null,"introduced_by":{"title":"Rendezvous: Attention Mechanisms for the Recognition of Surgical Action Triplets in Endoscopic Videos","paper":"/paper/rendezvous-attention-mechanisms-for-the","first_author":"Chinedu Innocent Nwoye","n_authors":8,"url_abs":null,"archive_paper_url":"https://paperswithcode.com/paper/rendezvous-attention-mechanisms-for-the"},"source":{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03223v2","title":"Rendezvous: Attention Mechanisms for the Recognition of Surgical Action Triplets in Endoscopic Videos","url_on_a_paper_host":true},"code_snippet_url":null,"code_snippet_url_on_a_code_host":false,"categories":[{"area":"General","area_id":"general","collection":"Attention Mechanisms","url":"/methods/category/attention-mechanisms","pwc_aliases":["attention-mechanisms-1"]}],"n_papers_tagged":2,"archive_num_papers":2,"papers_newest_first":[{"paper":"/paper/key-feature-replacement-of-in-distribution","title":"Key Feature Replacement of In-Distribution Samples for Out-of-Distribution Detection","date":"2022-12-26","arxiv_id":"2301.13012","n_code_links":1,"syntology":null},{"paper":"/paper/rendezvous-attention-mechanisms-for-the","title":"Rendezvous: Attention Mechanisms for the Recognition of Surgical Action Triplets in Endoscopic Videos","date":"2021-09-07","arxiv_id":"2109.03223","n_code_links":8,"syntology":null}],"papers_shown":2,"tasks":[{"task":"/task/action-triplet-recognition","name":"Action Triplet Recognition","papers":1},{"task":"/task/ood-detection","name":"Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection","papers":1},{"task":"/task/out-of-distribution-detection","name":"Out-of-Distribution Detection","papers":1},{"task":null,"name":"Triplet","papers":1}],"tasks_shown":4,"n_tasks":4,"usage_by_year":[{"year":"2021","papers":1},{"year":"2022","papers":1}],"row_source":"methods_table","archive":{"source":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","archive_url":"https://paperswithcode.com/method/cagam"},"syntology_read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00"}