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Context Enhancement Module

8 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Zheng Qin et al. in ThunderNet: Towards Real-time Generic Object Detection

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Context Enhancement Module (CEM) is a feature extraction module used in object detection (specifically, ThunderNet) which aims to to enlarge the receptive field. The key idea of CEM is to aggregate multi-scale local context information and global context information to generate more discriminative features. In CEM, the feature maps from three scales are merged: C₄, C₅ and C_(glb). C_(glb) is the global context feature vector by applying a global average pooling on C₅. We then apply a 1 × 1 convolution on each feature map to squeeze the number of channels to α×p ×p = 245.

Afterwards, C₅ is upsampled by 2× and C_(glb) is broadcast so that the spatial dimensions of the three feature maps are equal. At last, the three generated feature maps are aggregated. By leveraging both local and global context, CEM effectively enlarges the receptive field and refines the representation ability of the thin feature map. Compared with prior FPN structures, CEM involves only two 1×1 convolutions and a fc layer.

PaperSourceSee Code · ouyanghuiyu/Thundernet_Pytorch

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

14 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Object Detection4
object-detection4
Semantic Segmentation3
Mixed Reality2
Object2
Segmentation2
Change Detection1
Earth Observation1
Miscellaneous1
Motion Compensation1
Motion Estimation1
Multi-Task Learning1
Optical Flow Estimation1
Video Compression1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Context Enhancement Module: 2019 to 2024, peak 3 3 0 2019: 3 papers 2019 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022 2023: 0 papers 2023 2024: 2 papers 2024
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