YOLOv11改进-添加注意力机制篇-添加EMAttention注意力机制（附二次创新C2PSA机制）

一、本文介绍

本文给大家带来的改进机制是 EMAttention注意力机制 ，它的 核心思想是 ，重塑部分通道到批次维度，并将通道维度分组为多个子特征，以保留每个通道的信息并减少计算开销。 EMA 模块通过编码全局信息来重新校准每个并行分支中的通道权重，并通过跨维度交互来捕获像素级别的关系。本文首先给大家提供效果图 ( 由基础版本未作任何修改和修改了本文的改进机制的效果对比图 ) ，然后介绍其主要的原理， 最后手把手教大家如何添加该注意力机制 。

二、EMAttention的框架原理

官方论文地址： 官方论文地址

官方代码地址： 官方代码地址

主要原理是一个新型的高效多尺度注意力（EMA）这个模块通过重塑部分通道到批次维度，并将通道维度分组为多个子特征，以保留每个通道的信息并减少计算开销。EMA模块通过编码全局信息来重新校准每个并行分支中的通道权重，并通过跨维度交互来捕获像素级别的关系。

提出的创新点主要包括：

1. 高效多尺度注意力（EMA）模：这是一种新型的注意力机制，专为计算机视觉任务设计，旨在同时减少计算开销和保留每个通道的关键信息。

2. 通道和批次维度的重组：EMA通过重新组织通道维度和批次维度，提高了模型处理特征的能力。

3. 跨维度交互：模块利用跨维度的交互来捕捉像素级别的关系，这在传统的注意力模型中较为少见。

4. 全局信息编码和通道权重校准：EMA模块在并行分支中编码全局信息，用于通道权重的重新校准，增强了特征表示的能力。

这张图片是文章中提出的高效多尺度注意力（EMA）模块的示意图。"g"表示输入通道被分成的组数。"X Avg Pool"和"Y Avg Pool"分别代表一维水平和垂直的全局池化操作。在EMA模块中，输入首先被分组，然后通过不同的分支进行处理：一个分支进行一维全局池化，另一个通过3x3的卷积进行特征提取。两个分支的输出特征之后通过sigmoid 函数和归一化操作进行调制，最终通过跨维度交互模块合并，以捕捉像素级的成对关系。经过最终的sigmoid调节后，输出特征映射以增强或减弱原始输入特征，从而得到最终输出。

三、EMAttention的核心代码

使用方法看章节四。

import torch
from torch import nn
__all__ = ['EMA', 'C2PSA_EMA']
class EMA(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, channels, factor=16):
        super(EMA, self).__init__()
        self.groups = factor
        assert channels // self.groups > 0
        self.softmax = nn.Softmax(-1)
        self.agp = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((1, 1))
        self.pool_h = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((None, 1))
        self.pool_w = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((1, None))
        self.gn = nn.GroupNorm(channels // self.groups, channels // self.groups)
        self.conv1x1 = nn.Conv2d(channels // self.groups, channels // self.groups, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
        self.conv3x3 = nn.Conv2d(channels // self.groups, channels // self.groups, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
    def forward(self, x):
        b, c, h, w = x.size()
        group_x = x.reshape(b * self.groups, -1, h, w)  # b*g,c//g,h,w
        x_h = self.pool_h(group_x)
        x_w = self.pool_w(group_x).permute(0, 1, 3, 2)
        hw = self.conv1x1(torch.cat([x_h, x_w], dim=2))
        x_h, x_w = torch.split(hw, [h, w], dim=2)
        x1 = self.gn(group_x * x_h.sigmoid() * x_w.permute(0, 1, 3, 2).sigmoid())
        x2 = self.conv3x3(group_x)
        x11 = self.softmax(self.agp(x1).reshape(b * self.groups, -1, 1).permute(0, 2, 1))
        x12 = x2.reshape(b * self.groups, c // self.groups, -1)  # b*g, c//g, hw
        x21 = self.softmax(self.agp(x2).reshape(b * self.groups, -1, 1).permute(0, 2, 1))
        x22 = x1.reshape(b * self.groups, c // self.groups, -1)  # b*g, c//g, hw
        weights = (torch.matmul(x11, x12) + torch.matmul(x21, x22)).reshape(b * self.groups, 1, h, w)
        return (group_x * weights.sigmoid()).reshape(b, c, h, w)
def autopad(k, p=None, d=1):  # kernel, padding, dilation
    """Pad to 'same' shape outputs."""
    if d > 1:
        k = d * (k - 1) + 1 if isinstance(k, int) else [d * (x - 1) + 1 for x in k]  # actual kernel-size
    if p is None:
        p = k // 2 if isinstance(k, int) else [x // 2 for x in k]  # auto-pad
    return p
class Conv(nn.Module):
    """Standard convolution with args(ch_in, ch_out, kernel, stride, padding, groups, dilation, activation)."""
    default_act = nn.SiLU()  # default activation
    def __init__(self, c1, c2, k=1, s=1, p=None, g=1, d=1, act=True):
        """Initialize Conv layer with given arguments including activation."""
        super().__init__()
        self.conv = nn.Conv2d(c1, c2, k, s, autopad(k, p, d), groups=g, dilation=d, bias=False)
        self.bn = nn.BatchNorm2d(c2)
        self.act = self.default_act if act is True else act if isinstance(act, nn.Module) else nn.Identity()
    def forward(self, x):
        """Apply convolution, batch normalization and activation to input tensor."""
        return self.act(self.bn(self.conv(x)))
    def forward_fuse(self, x):
        """Perform transposed convolution of 2D data."""
        return self.act(self.conv(x))
class PSABlock(nn.Module):
    """
    PSABlock class implementing a Position-Sensitive Attention block for neural networks.
    This class encapsulates the functionality for applying multi-head attention and feed-forward neural network layers
    with optional shortcut connections.
    Attributes:
        attn (Attention): Multi-head attention module.
        ffn (nn.Sequential): Feed-forward neural network module.
        add (bool): Flag indicating whether to add shortcut connections.
    Methods:
        forward: Performs a forward pass through the PSABlock, applying attention and feed-forward layers.
    Examples:
        Create a PSABlock and perform a forward pass
        >>> psablock = PSABlock(c=128, attn_ratio=0.5, num_heads=4, shortcut=True)
        >>> input_tensor = torch.randn(1, 128, 32, 32)
        >>> output_tensor = psablock(input_tensor)
    """
    def __init__(self, c, attn_ratio=0.5, num_heads=4, shortcut=True) -> None:
        """Initializes the PSABlock with attention and feed-forward layers for enhanced feature extraction."""
        super().__init__()
        self.attn = EMA(c)
        self.ffn = nn.Sequential(Conv(c, c * 2, 1), Conv(c * 2, c, 1, act=False))
        self.add = shortcut
    def forward(self, x):
        """Executes a forward pass through PSABlock, applying attention and feed-forward layers to the input tensor."""
        x = x + self.attn(x) if self.add else self.attn(x)
        x = x + self.ffn(x) if self.add else self.ffn(x)
        return x
class C2PSA_EMA(nn.Module):
    """
    C2PSA module with attention mechanism for enhanced feature extraction and processing.
    This module implements a convolutional block with attention mechanisms to enhance feature extraction and processing
    capabilities. It includes a series of PSABlock modules for self-attention and feed-forward operations.
    Attributes:
        c (int): Number of hidden channels.
        cv1 (Conv): 1x1 convolution layer to reduce the number of input channels to 2*c.
        cv2 (Conv): 1x1 convolution layer to reduce the number of output channels to c.
        m (nn.Sequential): Sequential container of PSABlock modules for attention and feed-forward operations.
    Methods:
        forward: Performs a forward pass through the C2PSA module, applying attention and feed-forward operations.
    Notes:
        This module essentially is the same as PSA module, but refactored to allow stacking more PSABlock modules.
    Examples:
        >>> c2psa = C2PSA(c1=256, c2=256, n=3, e=0.5)
        >>> input_tensor = torch.randn(1, 256, 64, 64)
        >>> output_tensor = c2psa(input_tensor)
    """
    def __init__(self, c1, c2, n=1, e=0.5):
        """Initializes the C2PSA module with specified input/output channels, number of layers, and expansion ratio."""
        super().__init__()
        assert c1 == c2
        self.c = int(c1 * e)
        self.cv1 = Conv(c1, 2 * self.c, 1, 1)
        self.cv2 = Conv(2 * self.c, c1, 1)
        self.m = nn.Sequential(*(PSABlock(self.c, attn_ratio=0.5, num_heads=self.c // 64) for _ in range(n)))
    def forward(self, x):
        """Processes the input tensor 'x' through a series of PSA blocks and returns the transformed tensor."""
        a, b = self.cv1(x).split((self.c, self.c), dim=1)
        b = self.m(b)
        return self.cv2(torch.cat((a, b), 1))
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Generating Sample image
    image_size = (1, 64, 240, 240)
    image = torch.rand(*image_size)
    # Model
    mobilenet_v1 = C2PSA_EMA(64, 64)
    out = mobilenet_v1(image)
    print(out.size())

四、手把手教你添加EMAttention

4.1 修改一

第一还是建立文件，我们找到如下 ultralytics /nn文件夹下建立一个目录名字呢就是'Addmodules'文件夹( 用群内的文件的话已经有了无需新建) ！然后在其内部建立一个新的py文件将核心代码复制粘贴进去即可。

4.2 修改二

第二步我们在该目录下创建一个新的py文件名字为'__init__.py'( 用群内的文件的话已经有了无需新建) ，然后在其内部导入我们的检测头如下图所示。

4.3 修改三

第三步我门中到如下文件'ultralytics/nn/tasks.py'进行导入和注册我们的模块( 用群内的文件的话已经有了无需重新导入直接开始第四步即可) ！

从今天开始以后的教程就都统一成这个样子了，因为我默认大家用了我群内的文件来进行修改！！

4.4 修改四

按照我的添加在parse_model里添加即可，两个图片都是本文的机制大家按照图片进行添加即可！

到此就修改完成了，大家可以复制下面的yaml文件运行。

五、EMAttention的yaml文件和运行记录

下面推荐几个版本的yaml文件给大家，大家可以复制进行训练，但是组合用很多具体那种最有效果都不一定，针对不同的数据集效果也不一样，我不可每一种都做实验，所以我下面推荐了几种我自己认为可能有效果的配合方式，你也可以自己进行组合。

5.1 EMAttention的yaml版本一(推荐)

YOLO11-C2PSA-EMA summary: 315 layers, 2,544,059 parameters, 2,544,043 gradients, 6.4 GFLOPs

# Ultralytics YOLO 🚀, AGPL-3.0 license
# YOLO11 object detection model with P3-P5 outputs. For Usage examples see https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect
# Parameters
nc: 80 # number of classes
scales: # model compound scaling constants, i.e. 'model=yolo11n.yaml' will call yolo11.yaml with scale 'n'
  # [depth, width, max_channels]
  n: [0.50, 0.25, 1024] # summary: 319 layers, 2624080 parameters, 2624064 gradients, 6.6 GFLOPs
  s: [0.50, 0.50, 1024] # summary: 319 layers, 9458752 parameters, 9458736 gradients, 21.7 GFLOPs
  m: [0.50, 1.00, 512] # summary: 409 layers, 20114688 parameters, 20114672 gradients, 68.5 GFLOPs
  l: [1.00, 1.00, 512] # summary: 631 layers, 25372160 parameters, 25372144 gradients, 87.6 GFLOPs
  x: [1.00, 1.50, 512] # summary: 631 layers, 56966176 parameters, 56966160 gradients, 196.0 GFLOPs
# YOLO11n backbone
backbone:
  # [from, repeats, module, args]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [64, 3, 2]] # 0-P1/2
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [128, 3, 2]] # 1-P2/4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [256, False, 0.25]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [256, 3, 2]] # 3-P3/8
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False, 0.25]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [512, 3, 2]] # 5-P4/16
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, True]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [1024, 3, 2]] # 7-P5/32
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [1024, True]]
  - [-1, 1, SPPF, [1024, 5]] # 9
  - [-1, 2, C2PSA_EMA, [1024]] # 10
# YOLO11n head
head:
  - [-1, 1, nn.Upsample, [None, 2, "nearest"]]
  - [[-1, 6], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat backbone P4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False]] # 13
  - [-1, 1, nn.Upsample, [None, 2, "nearest"]]
  - [[-1, 4], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat backbone P3
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [256, False]] # 16 (P3/8-small)
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [256, 3, 2]]
  - [[-1, 13], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat head P4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False]] # 19 (P4/16-medium)
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [512, 3, 2]]
  - [[-1, 10], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat head P5
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [1024, True]] # 22 (P5/32-large)
  - [[16, 19, 22], 1, Detect, [nc]] # Detect(P3, P4, P5)

5.2 EMAttention 的yaml版本二

YOLO11-EMA summary: 343 layers, 2,598,187 parameters, 2,598,171 gradients, 6.6 GFLOPs

# Ultralytics YOLO 🚀, AGPL-3.0 license
# YOLO11 object detection model with P3-P5 outputs. For Usage examples see https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect
# Parameters
nc: 80 # number of classes
scales: # model compound scaling constants, i.e. 'model=yolo11n.yaml' will call yolo11.yaml with scale 'n'
  # [depth, width, max_channels]
  n: [0.50, 0.25, 1024] # summary: 319 layers, 2624080 parameters, 2624064 gradients, 6.6 GFLOPs
  s: [0.50, 0.50, 1024] # summary: 319 layers, 9458752 parameters, 9458736 gradients, 21.7 GFLOPs
  m: [0.50, 1.00, 512] # summary: 409 layers, 20114688 parameters, 20114672 gradients, 68.5 GFLOPs
  l: [1.00, 1.00, 512] # summary: 631 layers, 25372160 parameters, 25372144 gradients, 87.6 GFLOPs
  x: [1.00, 1.50, 512] # summary: 631 layers, 56966176 parameters, 56966160 gradients, 196.0 GFLOPs
# YOLO11n backbone
backbone:
  # [from, repeats, module, args]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [64, 3, 2]] # 0-P1/2
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [128, 3, 2]] # 1-P2/4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [256, False, 0.25]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [256, 3, 2]] # 3-P3/8
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False, 0.25]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [512, 3, 2]] # 5-P4/16
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, True]]
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [1024, 3, 2]] # 7-P5/32
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [1024, True]]
  - [-1, 1, SPPF, [1024, 5]] # 9
  - [-1, 2, C2PSA, [1024]] # 10
# YOLO11n head
head:
  - [-1, 1, nn.Upsample, [None, 2, "nearest"]]
  - [[-1, 6], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat backbone P4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False]] # 13
  - [-1, 1, nn.Upsample, [None, 2, "nearest"]]
  - [[-1, 4], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat backbone P3
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [256, False]] # 16 (P3/8-small)
  - [-1, 1, EMA, []] # 17 (P3/8-small)  小目标检测层输出位置增加注意力机制
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [256, 3, 2]]
  - [[-1, 13], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat head P4
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [512, False]] # 20 (P4/16-medium)
  - [-1, 1, EMA, []] # 21 (P4/16-medium) 中目标检测层输出位置增加注意力机制
  - [-1, 1, Conv, [512, 3, 2]]
  - [[-1, 10], 1, Concat, [1]] # cat head P5
  - [-1, 2, C3k2, [1024, True]] # 24 (P5/32-large)
  - [-1, 1, EMA, []] # 25 (P5/32-large) 大目标检测层输出位置增加注意力机制
  # 具体在那一层用注意力机制可以根据自己的数据集场景进行选择。
  # 如果你自己配置注意力位置注意from[17, 21, 25]位置要对应上对应的检测层！
  - [[17, 21, 25], 1, Detect, [nc]] # Detect(P3, P4, P5)

5.3 训练代码

大家可以创建一个py文件将我给的代码复制粘贴进去，配置好自己的文件路径即可运行。

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
from ultralytics import YOLO
if __name__ == '__main__':
    model = YOLO('ultralytics/cfg/models/v8/yolov8-C2f-FasterBlock.yaml')
    # model.load('yolov8n.pt') # loading pretrain weights
    model.train(data=r'替换数据集yaml文件地址',
                # 如果大家任务是其它的'ultralytics/cfg/default.yaml'找到这里修改task可以改成detect, segment, classify, pose
                cache=False,
                imgsz=640,
                epochs=150,
                single_cls=False,  # 是否是单类别检测
                batch=4,
                close_mosaic=10,
                workers=0,
                device='0',
                optimizer='SGD', # using SGD
                # resume='', # 如过想续训就设置last.pt的地址
                amp=False,  # 如果出现训练损失为Nan可以关闭amp
                project='runs/train',
                name='exp',
                )

5.4 EMAttention 的训练过程截图

下面是添加了EMAttention的训练截图。

五、本文总结

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