{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/priming-neural-networks","title":"Priming Neural Networks","arxiv_id":"1711.05918","date":"2017-11-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Amir Rosenfeld","Mahdi Biparva","John K. Tsotsos"],"abstract":"Visual priming is known to affect the human visual system to allow detection\nof scene elements, even those that may have been near unnoticeable before, such\nas the presence of camouflaged animals. This process has been shown to be an\neffect of top-down signaling in the visual system triggered by the said cue. In\nthis paper, we propose a mechanism to mimic the process of priming in the\ncontext of object detection and segmentation. We view priming as having a\nmodulatory, cue dependent effect on layers of features within a network. Our\nresults show how such a process can be complementary to, and at times more\neffective than simple post-processing applied to the output of the network,\nnotably so in cases where the object is hard to detect such as in severe noise.\nMoreover, we find the effects of priming are sometimes stronger when early\nvisual layers are affected. Overall, our experiments confirm that top-down\nsignals can go a long way in improving object detection and segmentation.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05918v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.05918v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"priming-neural-networks","repo_url":"https://github.com/wkentaro/pytorch-fcn","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"caffe2","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"object","task_name":"Object"},{"task_slug":"object-detection","task_name":"Object Detection"},{"task_slug":"segmentation","task_name":"Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"object-detection-1","task_name":"object-detection"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}