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We introduce a novel weighted convolution operator that enhances traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by integrating a spatial density function into the convolution operator. This extension enables the network to differentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Simone Cammarasana , Giuseppe Patanè

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

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

Reconstructing a 3D object from a 2D image is a well-researched vision problem, with many kinds of deep learning techniques having been tried. Most commonly, 3D convolutional approaches are used, though previous work has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rohan Agarwal , Wei Zhou , Xiaofeng Wu , Yuhan Li

Recent years have witnessed the great success of vision transformer (ViT), which has achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple computer vision benchmarks. However, ViT models suffer from vast amounts of parameters and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Guanyu Xu , Zhiwei Hao , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Jianping An , Shiwen Mao

Convolutional networks are powerful visual models that yield hierarchies of features. We show that convolutional networks by themselves, trained end-to-end, pixels-to-pixels, exceed the state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Jonathan Long , Evan Shelhamer , Trevor Darrell

Tasks that involve high-resolution dense prediction require a modeling of both local and global patterns in a large input field. Although the local and global structures often depend on each other and their simultaneous modeling is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Naoya Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their ability to focus on global relationships in images, offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Asifullah Khan , Zunaira Rauf , Anabia Sohail , Abdul Rehman , Hifsa Asif , Aqsa Asif , Umair Farooq

Convolutional Neural networks (CNN) have been the first choice of paradigm in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness which is it only operates on a local neighborhood of pixels, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michael Yang

The recently developed vision transformer (ViT) has achieved promising results on image classification compared to convolutional neural networks. Inspired by this, in this paper, we study how to learn multi-scale feature representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Rameswar Panda

In this paper, we present Vision Permutator, a conceptually simple and data efficient MLP-like architecture for visual recognition. By realizing the importance of the positional information carried by 2D feature representations, unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Qibin Hou , Zihang Jiang , Li Yuan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

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

Convolutional neural networks typically encode an input image into a series of intermediate features with decreasing resolutions. While this structure is suited to classification tasks, it does not perform well for tasks requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xianzhi Du , Tsung-Yi Lin , Pengchong Jin , Golnaz Ghiasi , Mingxing Tan , Yin Cui , Quoc V. Le , Xiaodan Song

The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Visual place recognition (VPR) aims to determine the general geographical location of a query image by retrieving visually similar images from a large geo-tagged database. To obtain a global representation for each place image, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tong Jin , Feng Lu , Shuyu Hu , Chun Yuan , Yunpeng Liu

Depth estimation attracts widespread attention in the computer vision community. However, it is still quite difficult to recover an accurate depth map using only one RGB image. We observe a phenomenon that existing methods tend to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Ran Li , Zhongcai Pei , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen , Wentao Zhu , Xingming Wu , Baochang Zhang

Conventional vision backbones, despite their success, often construct features through a largely uniform cascade of operations, offering limited explicit pathways for adaptive, iterative refinement. This raises a compelling question: can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bin Guo , John H. L. Hansen

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to convert tabular images into a machine-readable format, where a visual encoder extracts image features and a textual decoder generates table-representing tokens. Existing approaches use classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 ShengYun Peng , Seongmin Lee , Xiaojing Wang , Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan , Duen Horng Chau

Since being introduced in 2020, Vision Transformers (ViT) has been steadily breaking the record for many vision tasks and are often described as ``all-you-need" to replace ConvNet. Despite that, ViTs are generally computational,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chuong H. Nguyen , Su Huynh , Vinh Nguyen , Ngoc Nguyen

Modern transformer architectures achieve remarkable performance across tasks and domains but remain rigid in how they allocate computation at inference time. Real-world deployment often requires models to adapt to diverse hardware and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Purvish Jajal , Nick John Eliopoulos , Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou , George K. Thiruvathukal , Yung-Hsiang Lu , James C. Davis