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Vision Transformer (ViT), a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks offers multiple advantages including design simplicity, robustness and state-of-the-art performance on many vision tasks. However, in contrast…

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for Vision Transformers (ViTs) has recently demonstrated considerable potential as a pre-training strategy for a variety of computer vision tasks, including image classification and segmentation, both in…

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder architecture, has not only revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), but has also done some pioneering work in the field of computer vision (CV). Compared to convolutional…

Vision transformers (ViT) have demonstrated impressive performance across various machine vision problems. These models are based on multi-head self-attention mechanisms that can flexibly attend to a sequence of image patches to encode…

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is an attractive solution that does not require hard-to-source depth labels for training. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success in this task. However, their…

Colonoscopy plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and prognosis of various gastrointestinal diseases. Due to the challenges of collecting large-scale high-quality ground truth annotations for colonoscopy images, and more generally medical…

Self-supervised pre-training strategies have recently shown impressive results for training general-purpose feature extraction backbones in computer vision. In combination with the Vision Transformer architecture, the DINO self-distillation…

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically…

We are witnessing a modeling shift from CNN to Transformers in computer vision. In this work, we present a self-supervised learning approach called MoBY, with Vision Transformers as its backbone architecture. The approach basically has no…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are prone to overfit small training datasets. We present a novel two-phase pipeline that leverages self-supervised learning and knowledge distillation to improve the generalization ability of CNN models…

This paper is concerned with self-supervised learning for small models. The problem is motivated by our empirical studies that while the widely used contrastive self-supervised learning method has shown great progress on large model…

This work proposes a novel method for object co-segmentation, i.e. pixel-level localization of a common object in a set of images, that uses no pixel-level supervision for training. Two pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models are…

While methods based on Vision Transformers (ViT) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many domains, they have not yet been applied successfully in the domain of writer retrieval. The field is dominated by methods using handcrafted…

We study semi-supervised learning (SSL) for vision transformers (ViT), an under-explored topic despite the wide adoption of the ViT architectures to different tasks. To tackle this problem, we propose a new SSL pipeline, consisting of first…

Tokens or patches within Vision Transformers (ViT) lack essential semantic information, unlike their counterparts in natural language processing (NLP). Typically, ViT tokens are associated with rectangular image patches that lack specific…

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…

Vision transformers (ViTs) have gained popularity recently. Even without customized image operators such as convolutions, ViTs can yield competitive performance when properly trained on massive data. However, the computational overhead of…

This paper introduces a novel approach to leverage features learned from both supervised and self-supervised paradigms, to improve image classification tasks, specifically for vehicle classification. Two state-of-the-art self-supervised…