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Vision transformer (ViT) has recently shown its strong capability in achieving comparable results to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, vanilla ViT simply inherits the same architecture from the natural…

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Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but the huge computational cost is still a severe issue. Since the computation complexity of ViT is quadratic with respect to the input sequence length, a mainstream…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) represent a groundbreaking shift in machine learning approaches to computer vision. Unlike traditional approaches, ViTs employ the self-attention mechanism, which has been widely used in natural language…

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Vision-and-Language Pre-training (VLP) has improved performance on various joint vision-and-language downstream tasks. Current approaches to VLP heavily rely on image feature extraction processes, most of which involve region supervision…

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Recently, several Vision Transformer (ViT) based methods have been proposed for Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC).These methods significantly surpass existing CNN-based ones, demonstrating the effectiveness of ViT in FGVC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zi-Chao Zhang , Zhen-Duo Chen , Yongxin Wang , Xin Luo , Xin-Shun Xu

Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jen Hong Tan

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful transformers bring a huge computation burden, because of the exhausting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhuofan Zong , Kunchang Li , Guanglu Song , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Biao Leng , Yu Liu

Vision Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of computer vision tasks, but their practical deployment is limited by high computational and memory costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel tensor-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alaa El Ichi , Khalide Jbilou

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

Vision transformers (ViTs) have dominated computer vision in recent years. However, ViTs are computationally expensive and not well suited for mobile devices; this led to the prevalence of convolutional neural network (CNN) and ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mustafa Munir , Md Mostafijur Rahman , Radu Marculescu

We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

Recently, lightweight Vision Transformers (ViTs) demonstrate superior performance and lower latency, compared with lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), on resource-constrained mobile devices. Researchers have discovered many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Recent progress in vision Transformers exhibits great success in various tasks driven by the new spatial modeling mechanism based on dot-product self-attention. In this paper, we show that the key ingredients behind the vision Transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Ser-Nam Lim , Jiwen Lu

The ubiquitous and demonstrably suboptimal choice of resizing images to a fixed resolution before processing them with computer vision models has not yet been successfully challenged. However, models such as the Vision Transformer (ViT)…

This study examines various feature extraction techniques in computer vision, the primary focus of which is on Vision Transformers (ViTs) and other approaches such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), deep feature models, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Venant Niyonkuru , Sylla Sekou , Jimmy Jackson Sinzinkayo

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently brought a new wave of research in the field of computer vision. These models have performed particularly well in image classification and segmentation. Research on semantic and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have reigned for a decade as the de facto approach to automated medical image diagnosis, pushing the state-of-the-art in classification, detection and segmentation tasks. Over the last years, vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Moein Sorkhei , Magnus Söderberg , Kevin Smith

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang