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Recent advances of Transformers have brought new trust to computer vision tasks. However, on small dataset, Transformers is hard to train and has lower performance than convolutional neural networks. We make vision transformers as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bin Chen , Ran Wang , Di Ming , Xin Feng

Visual Transformers (VTs) are emerging as an architectural paradigm alternative to Convolutional networks (CNNs). Differently from CNNs, VTs can capture global relations between image elements and they potentially have a larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Wei Bi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently dominated a range of computer vision tasks, yet it suffers from low training data efficiency and inferior local semantic representation capability without appropriate inductive bias. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Cong Wang , Hongmin Xu , Xiong Zhang , Li Wang , Zhitong Zheng , Haifeng Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant popularity in recent years and have proliferated into many applications. However, their behavior under different learning paradigms is not well explored. We compare ViTs trained through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Matthew Walmer , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava

Vision Transformers (ViT), when paired with large-scale pretraining, have shown remarkable performance across various computer vision tasks, primarily due to their weak inductive bias. However, while such weak inductive bias aids in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dongyoon Hwang , Byungkun Lee , Hojoon Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Jaegul Choo

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) showed remarkable results in many vision tasks, they are still strained by simple yet challenging visual reasoning problems. Inspired by the recent success of the Transformer network in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Transformers have emerged as a competitive alternative to convnets in vision tasks, yet they lack the architectural inductive bias of convnets, which may hinder their potential performance. Specifically, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hagay Michaeli , Daniel Soudry

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Skin lesion segmentation (SLS) plays an important role in skin lesion analysis. Vision transformers (ViTs) are considered an auspicious solution for SLS, but they require more training data compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

We propose global context vision transformer (GC ViT), a novel architecture that enhances parameter and compute utilization for computer vision. Our method leverages global context self-attention modules, joint with standard local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Greg Heinrich , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Recent state-of-the-art performances of Vision Transformers (ViT) in computer vision tasks demonstrate that a general-purpose architecture, which implements long-range self-attention, could replace the local feature learning operations of…

Vision transformers (ViTs) that model an image as a sequence of partitioned patches have shown notable performance in diverse vision tasks. Because partitioning patches eliminates the image structure, to reflect the order of patches, ViTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim

Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Vision transformers (ViT) have demonstrated impressive performance across various machine vision problems. These models are based on multi-head self-attention mechanisms that can flexibly attend to a sequence of image patches to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have significantly changed the computer vision landscape and have periodically exhibited superior performance in vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the jury is still out on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ariel N. Lee , Sarah Adel Bargal , Janavi Kasera , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko , Nataniel Ruiz

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification, yet their attention mechanisms often remain opaque and exhibit dense, non-structured behaviors. In this work, we adapt our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance on various vision tasks, yet their generalization under distribution shifts (DS) is rarely understood. In this work, we comprehensively study the out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Chongzhi Zhang , Mingyuan Zhang , Shanghang Zhang , Daisheng Jin , Qiang Zhou , Zhongang Cai , Haiyu Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Ziwei Liu