Frequency Dynamic Convolution for Dense Image Prediction
Authors: name: Linwei Chen; name: Lin Gu; name: Liang Li; name: Chenggang Yan; name: Ying Fu
Published: 2025-03-24 15:32:06

Abstract: While Dynamic Convolution (DY-Conv) has shown promising performance by
enabling adaptive weight selection through multiple parallel weights combined
with an attention mechanism, the frequency response of these weights tends to
exhibit high similarity, resulting in high parameter costs but limited
adaptability. In this work, we introduce Frequency Dynamic Convolution
(FDConv), a novel approach that mitigates these limitations by learning a fixed
parameter budget in the Fourier domain. FDConv divides this budget into
frequency-based groups with disjoint Fourier indices, enabling the construction
of frequency-diverse weights without increasing the parameter cost. To further
enhance adaptability, we propose Kernel Spatial Modulation (KSM) and Frequency
Band Modulation (FBM). KSM dynamically adjusts the frequency response of each
filter at the spatial level, while FBM decomposes weights into distinct
frequency bands in the frequency domain and modulates them dynamically based on
local content. Extensive experiments on object detection, segmentation, and
classification validate the effectiveness of FDConv. We demonstrate that when
applied to ResNet-50, FDConv achieves superior performance with a modest
increase of +3.6M parameters, outperforming previous methods that require
substantial increases in parameter budgets (e.g., CondConv +90M, KW +76.5M).
Moreover, FDConv seamlessly integrates into a variety of architectures,
including ConvNeXt, Swin-Transformer, offering a flexible and efficient
solution for modern vision tasks. The code is made publicly available at
https://github.com/Linwei-Chen/FDConv.