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Although convolutional networks have been the dominant architecture for vision tasks for many years, recent experiments have shown that Transformer-based models, most notably the Vision Transformer (ViT), may exceed their performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Asher Trockman , J. Zico Kolter

We study the use of deep features extracted from a pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) as dense visual descriptors. We observe and empirically demonstrate that such features, when extractedfrom a self-supervised ViT model (DINO-ViT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shir Amir , Yossi Gandelsman , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel

With Vision Transformers (ViTs) making great advances in a variety of computer vision tasks, recent literature have proposed various variants of vanilla ViTs to achieve better efficiency and efficacy. However, it remains unclear how their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Rui Tian , Zuxuan Wu , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Astounding results from Transformer models on natural language tasks have intrigued the vision community to study their application to computer vision problems. Among their salient benefits, Transformers enable modeling long dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Salman Khan , Muzammal Naseer , Munawar Hayat , Syed Waqas Zamir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

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

Given the significant advances in machine learning techniques on mobile devices, particularly in the domain of computer vision, in this work we quantitatively study the performance characteristics of 190 real-world vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant strides in the field of computer vision. However, as the depth of the model and the resolution of the input images increase, the computational cost associated with training and running ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xinfeng Zhao , Yaoru Sun

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Vision transformers (ViT) have shown promise in various vision tasks while the U-Net based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) remains dominant in diffusion models. We design a simple and general ViT-based architecture (named U-ViT) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Fan Bao , Shen Nie , Kaiwen Xue , Yue Cao , Chongxuan Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Inspired by the tremendous success of the self-attention mechanism in natural language processing, the Vision Transformer (ViT) creatively applies it to image patch sequences and achieves incredible performance. However, the scaled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yanhong Fei , Yingjie Liu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Vision transformers (ViTs) that model an image as a sequence of partitioned patches have shown notable performance in diverse vision tasks. Because partitioning patches eliminates the image structure, to reflect the order of patches, ViTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim

This work investigates a simple yet powerful dense prediction task adapter for Vision Transformer (ViT). Unlike recently advanced variants that incorporate vision-specific inductive biases into their architectures, the plain ViT suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhe Chen , Yuchen Duan , Wenhai Wang , Junjun He , Tong Lu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

Side-scan sonar (SSS) imagery presents unique challenges in the classification of man-made objects on the seafloor due to the complex and varied underwater environments. Historically, experts have manually interpreted SSS images, relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 BW Sheffield , Jeffrey Ellen , Ben Whitmore

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kaleab A. Kinfu , Rene Vidal

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

Skin lesion segmentation (SLS) plays an important role in skin lesion analysis. Vision transformers (ViTs) are considered an auspicious solution for SLS, but they require more training data compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

Vision transformer (ViT) has achieved competitive accuracy on a variety of computer vision applications, but its computational cost impedes the deployment on resource-limited mobile devices. We explore the sparsity in ViT and observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Zhuoran Song , Yihong Xu , Zhezhi He , Li Jiang , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in capturing global dependencies but often struggle to efficiently represent fine-grained local details. Existing multi-scale approaches alleviate this issue by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min

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…