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Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

Vision transformers (ViTs) achieve remarkable performance on large datasets, but tend to perform worse than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when trained from scratch on smaller datasets, possibly due to a lack of local inductive bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Senthilkumar S. Kathiresan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown promising performance compared with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs. In this paper, we define several metrics, including Dynamic Data Proportion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Benjia Zhou , Pichao Wang , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Fan Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance on various vision tasks, yet their generalization under distribution shifts (DS) is rarely understood. In this work, we comprehensively study the out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Chongzhi Zhang , Mingyuan Zhang , Shanghang Zhang , Daisheng Jin , Qiang Zhou , Zhongang Cai , Haiyu Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Ziwei Liu

Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a comprehensive study on the robustness of vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

A clear understanding of where humans move in a scenario, their usual paths and speeds, and where they stop, is very important for different applications, such as mobility studies in urban areas or robot navigation tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Placido Falqueto , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luigi Palopoli , Daniele Fontanelli

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated the significant potential of transformer architectures for computer vision. To what extent can image-based deep reinforcement learning also benefit from ViT architectures, as compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianxin Tao , Daniele Reda , Michiel van de Panne

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various vision tasks. One reason behind the success lies in their ability to provide plausible innate explanations for the behavior of neural architectures. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lijie Hu , Yixin Liu , Ninghao Liu , Mengdi Huai , Lichao Sun , Di Wang

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie

Very recently, a variety of vision transformer architectures for dense prediction tasks have been proposed and they show that the design of spatial attention is critical to their success in these tasks. In this work, we revisit the design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xiangxiang Chu , Zhi Tian , Yuqing Wang , Bo Zhang , Haibing Ren , Xiaolin Wei , Huaxia Xia , Chunhua Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and MLPs signal further efforts on replacing hand-wired features or inductive biases with general-purpose neural architectures. Existing works empower the models by massive data, such as large-scale pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiangning Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Quan Kong , Yanru Xiao , Yuhao Shen , Cong Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Transformers, which are popular for language modeling, have been explored for solving vision tasks recently, e.g., the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. The ViT model splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Li Yuan , Yunpeng Chen , Tao Wang , Weihao Yu , Yujun Shi , Zihang Jiang , Francis EH Tay , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

The training of vision transformer (ViT) networks on small-scale datasets poses a significant challenge. By contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have an architectural inductive bias enabling them to perform well on such problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

A myriad of recent breakthroughs in hand-crafted neural architectures for visual recognition have highlighted the urgent need to explore hybrid architectures consisting of diversified building blocks. Meanwhile, neural architecture search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Changlin Li , Tao Tang , Guangrun Wang , Jiefeng Peng , Bing Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) extends the application range of transformers from language processing to computer vision tasks as being an alternative architecture against the existing convolutional neural networks (CNN). Since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Byeongho Heo , Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han , Sanghyuk Chun , Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh

Neuroimaging of large populations is valuable to identify factors that promote or resist brain disease, and to assist diagnosis, subtyping, and prognosis. Data-driven models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have increasingly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Nikhil J. Dhinagar , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Emily Laltoo , Paul M. Thompson