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Representation learning with Vision Transformers (ViTs) has advanced rapidly, yet the utility of large-scale models in spatially sensitive tasks is hindered by spurious tokens. Prior efforts to mitigate this have been limited, often…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inherently encode strong inductive biases, enabling effective generalization on small-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose integrating this inductive bias into ViTs, not through an architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

Radiographs are a versatile diagnostic tool for the detection and assessment of pathologies, for treatment planning or for navigation and localization purposes in clinical interventions. However, their interpretation and assessment by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks. However, ViTs' self-attention module is still arguably a major bottleneck, limiting their achievable hardware efficiency. Meanwhile, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoran You , Zhanyi Sun , Huihong Shi , Zhongzhi Yu , Yang Zhao , Yongan Zhang , Chaojian Li , Baopu Li , Yingyan Celine Lin

Generating 3D models from multi-view 2D RGB images has gained significant attention, extending the capabilities of technologies like Virtual Reality, Robotic Vision, and human-machine interaction. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ajith Balakrishnan , Sreeja S , Linu Shine

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have redefined image classification by leveraging self-attention to capture complex patterns and long-range dependencies between image patches. However, a key challenge for ViTs is efficiently incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Shravan Venkatraman , Jaskaran Singh Walia , Joe Dhanith P R

Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haibin Jiao

In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets). Beyond the fact that adapting self-supervised methods to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mathilde Caron , Hugo Touvron , Ishan Misra , Hervé Jégou , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin

Recent works have demonstrated that transformer can achieve promising performance in computer vision, by exploiting the relationship among image patches with self-attention. While they only consider the attention in a single feature layer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Nannan Li , Yaran Chen , Weifan Li , Zixiang Ding , Dongbin Zhao

Many models of visual attention have been proposed so far. Traditional bottom-up models, like saliency models, fail to replicate human gaze patterns, and deep gaze prediction models lack biological plausibility due to their reliance on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-28 Takuto Yamamoto , Hirosato Akahoshi , Shigeru Kitazawa

The accelerated MRI reconstruction process presents a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the extensive under-sampling in k-space. Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the mainstream for this task, demonstrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yucong Meng , Zhiwei Yang , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song

Convolutional networks have been the paradigm of choice in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness in that it only operates on a local neighborhood, thus missing global information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Ashish Vaswani , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Vision transformers have shown great success on numerous computer vision tasks. However, its central component, softmax attention, prohibits vision transformers from scaling up to high-resolution images, due to both the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Weixuan Sun , Zhen Qin , Hui Deng , Jianyuan Wang , Yi Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Nick Barnes , Stan Birchfield , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

Deep Neural Network has shown great strides in the coarse-grained image classification task. It was in part due to its strong ability to extract discriminative feature representations from the images. However, the marginal visual difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Prateek Shroff , Tianlong Chen , Yunchao Wei , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we observe two levels of redundancies when applying vision transformers (ViT) for image recognition. First, fixing the number of tokens through the whole network produces redundant features at the spatial level. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Baopu Li , Chuming Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

This paper presents a comparison of the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the task of multi-classifying images containing lesions of psoriasis and diseases similar to it. Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Natanael Lucena , Fábio S. da Silva , Ricardo Rios

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) evaluate short-range correlations in input images which progress along the layers, whereas vision transformer (ViT) architectures evaluate long-range correlations, using repeated transformer encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ella Koresh , Ronit D. Gross , Yuval Meir , Yarden Tzach , Tal Halevi , Ido Kanter

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. However, the high costs of global self-attention remain challenging for Transformers, especially for high-resolution vision tasks. Inspired by one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong