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The "Roaring 20s" of visual recognition began with the introduction of Vision Transformers (ViTs), which quickly superseded ConvNets as the state-of-the-art image classification model. A vanilla ViT, on the other hand, faces difficulties…

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While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely successful in 2D human pose estimation, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising alternative to CNNs, boosting state-of-the-art performance. However, the quadratic…

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Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

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The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ethan Huynh

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

We attempt to reduce the computational costs in vision transformers (ViTs), which increase quadratically in the token number. We present a novel training paradigm that trains only one ViT model at a time, but is capable of providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingbao Lin , Mengzhao Chen , Yuxin Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Rongrong Ji , Liujuan Cao

The transformer model has gained widespread adoption in computer vision tasks in recent times. However, due to the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention, which is proportional to the number of input tokens, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Wei Tan , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Vision transformers have been successfully applied to image recognition tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies within an image. However, there are still gaps in both performance and computational cost between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jianyuan Guo , Kai Han , Han Wu , Yehui Tang , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has brought new breakthroughs to the field of image classification by introducing the self-attention mechanism and Graph Convolutional Networks(GCN) have been proposed and successfully applied in data representation…

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Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures are becoming increasingly popular and widely employed to tackle computer vision applications. Their main feature is the capacity to extract global information through the self-attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini , Luping Zhou

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential in computer vision for local and global feature extraction. However, aggregating these architectures in existing methods often results in…

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Existing visual change detectors usually adopt CNNs or Transformers for feature representation learning and focus on learning effective representation for the changed regions between images. Although good performance can be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Bo Jiang , Zitian Wang , Xixi Wang , Ziyan Zhang , Lan Chen , Xiao Wang , Bin Luo

Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

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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…

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

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 have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention responses in Transformers, we empirically observe two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xu Ma , Huan Wang , Can Qin , Kunpeng Li , Xingchen Zhao , Jie Fu , Yun Fu

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Due to the complex attention mechanisms and model design, most existing vision Transformers (ViTs) can not perform as efficiently as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in realistic industrial deployment scenarios, e.g. TensorRT and…

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