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Transformer and its variants have shown great potential for various vision tasks in recent years, including image classification, object detection and segmentation. Meanwhile, recent studies also reveal that with proper architecture design,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xinghao Chen , Siwei Li , Yijing Yang , Yunhe Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional counterparts, our experiments find that ViTs trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chengzhi Mao , Lu Jiang , Mostafa Dehghani , Carl Vondrick , Rahul Sukthankar , Irfan Essa

Vision transformers have attracted much attention from computer vision researchers as they are not restricted to the spatial inductive bias of ConvNets. However, although Transformer-based backbones have achieved much progress on ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been successfully applied to most relevant tasks in the computer vision community. However, these networks are computationally demanding and not suitable for embedded devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Jose Alvarez , Lars Petersson

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

Currently, this paper is under review in IEEE. Transformers have intrigued the vision research community with their state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing. With their superior performance, transformers have found their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Preetam Ghosh , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Bikram Koirala , Behnood Rasti , Paul Scheunders

In recent years, transformer-based models have dominated panoptic segmentation, thanks to their strong modeling capabilities and their unified representation for both semantic and instance classes as global binary masks. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Abdullah Rashwan , Jiageng Zhang , Ali Taalimi , Fan Yang , Xingyi Zhou , Chaochao Yan , Liang-Chieh Chen , Yeqing Li

This paper revives Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNets) and reveals the underrated effectiveness over predominant ResNet-style architectures. We believe DenseNets' potential was overlooked due to untouched training methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Donghyun Kim , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

Extensive work has demonstrated the effectiveness of Vision Transformers. The plain Vision Transformer tends to obtain multi-scale features by selecting fixed layers, or the last layer of features aiming to achieve higher performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Fangjian Lin , Yizhe Ma , Shengwei Tian

While the Transformer architecture has become the de-facto standard for natural language processing tasks, its applications to computer vision remain limited. In vision, attention is either applied in conjunction with convolutional…

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged with superior performance on computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models. However, ViTs are mainly designed for image classification that generate single-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jiaqi Gu , Hyoukjun Kwon , Dilin Wang , Wei Ye , Meng Li , Yu-Hsin Chen , Liangzhen Lai , Vikas Chandra , David Z. Pan

We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haiping Wu , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Mengchen Liu , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang

Understanding the mechanisms underlying deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning and computer vision. One promising, yet only preliminarily explored approach, is feature inversion, which attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jan Rathjens , Shirin Reyhanian , David Kappel , Laurenz Wiskott

Dense pixelwise prediction such as semantic segmentation is an up-to-date challenge for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Many state-of-the-art approaches either tackle the loss of high-resolution information due to pooling in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Lingni Ma , Jörg Stückler , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

Image denoising is an important low-level computer vision task, which aims to reconstruct a noise-free and high-quality image from a noisy image. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chao Yao , Shuo Jin , Meiqin Liu , Xiaojuan Ban

In this paper, we aim at automatically searching an efficient network architecture for dense image prediction. Particularly, we follow the encoder-decoder style and focus on designing a connectivity structure for the decoder. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Huikai Wu , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Vision transformers (ViTs) are changing the landscape of object detection approaches. A natural usage of ViTs in detection is to replace the CNN-based backbone with a transformer-based backbone, which is straightforward and effective, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Kekai Sheng , Yuting Gao , Xing Sun , Ke Li , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective transformer framework for self-supervised learning called DenseDINO to learn dense visual representations. To exploit the spatial information that the dense prediction tasks require but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yike Yuan , Xinghe Fu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

Vision transformer has demonstrated promising performance on challenging computer vision tasks. However, directly training the vision transformers may yield unstable and sub-optimal results. Recent works propose to improve the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chengyue Gong , Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu