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Vision transformers (ViTs) process input images as sequences of patches via self-attention; a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This makes it interesting to study the adversarial feature space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown remarkable performance and scalability across various computer vision tasks. To apply single-scale ViTs to image segmentation, existing methods adopt a convolutional adapter to generate multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tommie Kerssies , Niccolò Cavagnero , Alexander Hermans , Narges Norouzi , Giuseppe Averta , Bastian Leibe , Gijs Dubbelman , Daan de Geus

Vision foundation models (VFMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. While several VFM adapters have shown promising results by leveraging the prior knowledge of VFMs, we identify two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yifan Li , Xin Li , Tianqin Li , Wenbin He , Yu Kong , Liu Ren

Vision transformers have attracted much attention from computer vision researchers as they are not restricted to the spatial inductive bias of ConvNets. However, although Transformer-based backbones have achieved much progress on ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yi Zhang , Lingxiao Wei , Bowei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Kai Yi , Shu Hu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

While vision transformers (ViTs) have continuously achieved new milestones in the field of computer vision, their sophisticated network architectures with high computation and memory costs have impeded their deployment on resource-limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Peiyan Dong , Mengshu Sun , Alec Lu , Yanyue Xie , Kenneth Liu , Zhenglun Kong , Xin Meng , Zhengang Li , Xue Lin , Zhenman Fang , Yanzhi Wang

The most recent year has witnessed the success of applying the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. However, there are still evidences indicating that ViT often suffers following two aspects, i) the high computation and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xian Wei , Bin Wang , Mingsong Chen , Ji Yuan , Hai Lan , Jiehuang Shi , Xuan Tang , Bo Jin , Guozhang Chen , Dongping Yang

Vision Transformers have been tremendously successful in computer vision tasks. However, their large computational, memory, and energy demands are a challenge for edge inference on FPGAs -- a field that has seen a recent surge in demand. We…

The ubiquitous and demonstrably suboptimal choice of resizing images to a fixed resolution before processing them with computer vision models has not yet been successfully challenged. However, models such as the Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Vision transformers are nowadays the de-facto choice for image classification tasks. There are two broad categories of classification tasks, fine-grained and coarse-grained. In fine-grained classification, the necessity is to discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Mohit Vaishnav , Thomas Fel , Ivań Felipe Rodríguez , Thomas Serre

The security of biometric authentication is increasingly critical as digital identity systems expand. Iris recognition offers high reliability due to its distinctive and stable texture patterns. Recent progress in deep learning, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Moh Imam Faiz , Aviv Yuniar Rahman , Rangga Pahlevi Putra

Vision Transformers (ViT), when paired with large-scale pretraining, have shown remarkable performance across various computer vision tasks, primarily due to their weak inductive bias. However, while such weak inductive bias aids in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dongyoon Hwang , Byungkun Lee , Hojoon Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Jaegul Choo

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have proven to be effective, in solving 2D image understanding tasks by training over large-scale image datasets; and meanwhile as a somehow separate track, in modeling the 3D visual world too such as voxels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yi Wang , Zhiwen Fan , Tianlong Chen , Hehe Fan , Zhangyang Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in various vision tasks. However, they tend to underperform on smaller datasets due to their inherent lack of inductive biases. Current approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alan Luo , Kaiwen Yuan

Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant success, their intensive computations and substantial memory overheads challenge their deployment on edge devices. To address this, efficient ViTs have emerged, typically…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yanbiao Liang , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT), as a powerful alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), has received much attention. Recent work showed that ViTs are also vulnerable to adversarial examples like CNNs. To build robust ViTs, an intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Boxi Wu , Jindong Gu , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu