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CTNet: learning local details and global context for food recognition

Jul 2026 · Multimedia Systems · Vol 32 · 0 citations · 68 references
Computer Science

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Convolution Transformer Integration Network (CTNet) is proposed, a hybrid architecture that couples a residual CNN branch for local detail mining with a Transformer branch for global dependency modeling and achieves effectiveness in food recognition.

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