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With the rapid development of geometric deep learning techniques, many mesh-based convolutional operators have been proposed to bridge irregular mesh structures and popular backbone networks. In this paper, we show that while convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qiujie Dong , Xiaoran Gong , Rui Xu , Zixiong Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Ophthalmic image segmentation serves as a critical foundation for ocular disease diagnosis. Although fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly employed for segmentation, they are constrained by inductive biases and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zunjie Xiao , Xiaoqing Zhang , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

We propose RepMLP, a multi-layer-perceptron-style neural network building block for image recognition, which is composed of a series of fully-connected (FC) layers. Compared to convolutional layers, FC layers are more efficient, better at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xiaohan Ding , Chunlong Xia , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Dense prediction is a fundamental requirement for many medical vision tasks such as medical image restoration, registration, and segmentation. The most popular vision model, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has reached bottlenecks due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Mingyuan Meng , Yuxin Xue , Dagan Feng , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

MLP-based architectures, which consist of a sequence of consecutive multi-layer perceptron blocks, have recently been found to reach comparable results to convolutional and transformer-based methods. However, most adopt spatial MLPs which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiachen Li , Ali Hassani , Steven Walton , Humphrey Shi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are models that are utilized extensively for the hierarchical extraction of features. Vision transformers (ViTs), through the use of a self-attention mechanism, have recently achieved superior modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Danfeng Hong , Peter M Atkinson , Pedram Ghamisi

Recently, vision architectures based exclusively on multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) have gained much attention in the computer vision community. MLP-like models achieve competitive performance on a single 2D image classification with less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shuo Chen , Tan Yu , Ping Li

Transformers have sprung up in the field of computer vision. In this work, we explore whether the core self-attention module in Transformer is the key to achieving excellent performance in image recognition. To this end, we build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chuanxin Tang , Yucheng Zhao , Guangting Wang , Chong Luo , Wenxuan Xie , Wenjun Zeng

Recently computer vision has seen advancements mainly thanks to Transformer-based models. However many non-Transformer methods are still doing well being a direct competition of Transformer-based models. This review tries to present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nur Mohammad Kazi , Ibteshum Khaled , Md. Luthful Hasan Galib , Ali Faruk Shihab , Md. Rakibul Islam

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results in computer vision tasks. In the early days, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) were the mainstream architecture. In recent years, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zhentan Zheng

Recently, MLP-like vision models have achieved promising performances on mainstream visual recognition tasks. In contrast with vision transformers and CNNs, the success of MLP-like models shows that simple information fusion operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziyu Wang , Wenhao Jiang , Yiming Zhu , Li Yuan , Yibing Song , Wei Liu

In the field of computer vision, recent works show that a pure MLP architecture mainly stacked by fully-connected layers can achieve competing performance with CNN and transformer. An input image of vision MLP is usually split into multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yehui Tang , Kai Han , Jianyuan Guo , Chang Xu , Yanxi Li , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

Most modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used for object recognition are built using the same principles: Alternating convolution and max-pooling layers followed by a small number of fully connected layers. We re-evaluate the state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jost Tobias Springenberg , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox , Martin Riedmiller

Recent progress on Transformers and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models provide new network architectural designs for computer vision tasks. Although these models proved to be effective in many vision tasks such as image recognition, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zhengzhong Tu , Hossein Talebi , Han Zhang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar , Alan Bovik , Yinxiao Li

The attention mechanism is the primary component of the transformer architecture; it has led to significant advancements in deep learning spanning many domains and covering multiple tasks. In computer vision, the attention mechanism was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Abdullah Nazhat Abdullah , Tarkan Aydin

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

Transformers have shown great potential in computer vision tasks. A common belief is their attention-based token mixer module contributes most to their competence. However, recent works show the attention-based module in Transformers can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Weihao Yu , Mi Luo , Pan Zhou , Chenyang Si , Yichen Zhou , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to introduce Convolutions to Gated MultiLayer Perceptron and contributes an implementation of this novel Deep Learning architecture. Google Brain introduced the gMLP in May 2021.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 A. Rajagopal , V. Nirmala

Recently, transformer and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) architectures have achieved impressive results on various vision tasks. A few works investigated manually combining those operators to design visual network architectures, and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jihao Liu , Hongsheng Li , Guanglu Song , Xin Huang , Yu Liu

Dense prediction in medical volume provides enriched guidance for clinical analysis. CNN backbones have met bottleneck due to lack of long-range dependencies and global context modeling power. Recent works proposed to combine vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jianye Pang , Cheng Jiang , Yihao Chen , Jianbo Chang , Ming Feng , Renzhi Wang , Jianhua Yao