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In this paper, we delve into the realm of vision transformers for continual semantic segmentation, a problem that has not been sufficiently explored in previous literature. Empirical investigations on the adaptation of existing frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Bowen Dong , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Although vision Transformers have achieved excellent performance as backbone models in many vision tasks, most of them intend to capture global relations of all tokens in an image or a window, which disrupts the inherent spatial and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Gang Li , Di Xu , Xing Cheng , Lingyu Si , Changwen Zheng

The success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in various computer vision tasks has promoted the ever-increasing prevalence of this convolution-free network. The fact that ViT works on image patches makes it potentially relevant to the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Yingyi Chen , Xi Shen , Yahui Liu , Qinghua Tao , Johan A. K. Suykens

Fine-Grained Image Classification (FGIC) remains a complex task in computer vision, as it requires models to distinguish between categories with subtle localized visual differences. Well-studied CNN-based models, while strong in local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Boris Kriuk , Simranjit Kaur Gill , Shoaib Aslam , Amir Fakhrutdinov

Our review explores the comparative analysis between Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the domain of image classification, with a particular focus on clothing classification within the e-commerce sector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sonia Bbouzidi , Ghazala Hcini , Imen Jdey , Fadoua Drira

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

The success of multi-head self-attentions (MSAs) for computer vision is now indisputable. However, little is known about how MSAs work. We present fundamental explanations to help better understand the nature of MSAs. In particular, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Namuk Park , Songkuk Kim

Although convolutional networks have been the dominant architecture for vision tasks for many years, recent experiments have shown that Transformer-based models, most notably the Vision Transformer (ViT), may exceed their performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Asher Trockman , J. Zico Kolter

In this work we demonstrate the vulnerability of vision transformers (ViTs) to gradient-based inversion attacks. During this attack, the original data batch is reconstructed given model weights and the corresponding gradients. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Holger Roth , Wenqi Li , Jan Kautz , Daguang Xu , Pavlo Molchanov

Vision Transformers has demonstrated competitive performance on computer vision tasks benefiting from their ability to capture long-range dependencies with multi-head self-attention modules and multi-layer perceptron. However, calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qinghao Hu , Kaidong Li , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Vision Transformers have excelled in computer vision but their attention mechanisms operate independently across layers, limiting information flow and feature learning. We propose an effective cross-layer attention propagation method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swarnendu Banik , Manish Das , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable performance in computer vision. However, positional encoding in ViT makes it substantially difficult to learn the intrinsic equivariance in data. Initial attempts have been made on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Renjun Xu , Kaifan Yang , Ke Liu , Fengxiang He

Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-of-the-art advancement of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gaby Maroun , Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Fadi Dornaika

This work investigates a simple yet powerful dense prediction task adapter for Vision Transformer (ViT). Unlike recently advanced variants that incorporate vision-specific inductive biases into their architectures, the plain ViT suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhe Chen , Yuchen Duan , Wenhai Wang , Junjun He , Tong Lu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

Pretrained vision foundation models deliver strong performance across tasks with limited fine-tuning. However, their Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones impose high inference costs, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Carmelo Scribano , Mohammad Mahdi , Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Yuqian Fu , Giorgia Franchini , Danda Pani Paudel , Marko Bertogna , Luc Van Gool

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. However, the high costs of global self-attention remain challenging for Transformers, especially for high-resolution vision tasks. Inspired by one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

Vision transformers have achieved encouraging progress in various computer vision tasks. A common belief is that this is attributed to the capability of self-attention in modeling the global dependencies among feature tokens. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yulong Shi , Mingwei Sun , Yongshuai Wang , Zengqiang Chen

For medical image semantic segmentation (MISS), Vision Transformers have emerged as strong alternatives to convolutional neural networks thanks to their inherent ability to capture long-range correlations. However, existing research uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Qianying Liu , Chaitanya Kaul , Jun Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith , Fani Deligianni

Convolutional networks have been the paradigm of choice in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness in that it only operates on a local neighborhood, thus missing global information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Ashish Vaswani , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le