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In recent years, Vision Transformers have attracted increasing interest from computer vision researchers. However, the advantage of these transformers over CNNs is only fully manifested when trained over a large dataset, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

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

In the field of medical CT image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the dominant technique.Encoder-decoder CNNs utilise locality for efficiency, but they cannot simulate distant pixel interactions properly.Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hongyang He , Feng Ziliang , Yuanhang Zheng , Shudong Huang , HaoBing Gao

Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their ability to focus on global relationships in images, offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Asifullah Khan , Zunaira Rauf , Anabia Sohail , Abdul Rehman , Hifsa Asif , Aqsa Asif , Umair Farooq

Transformer's recent integration into style transfer leverages its proficiency in establishing long-range dependencies, albeit at the expense of attenuated local modeling. This paper introduces Strips Window Attention Transformer (S2WAT), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chiyu Zhang , Xiaogang Xu , Lei Wang , Zaiyan Dai , Jun Yang

Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Transformers have demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). The quadratic computational complexity of window self-attention mechanisms in many transformer-based SR methods forces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fayaz Ali , Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Radu Timofte

We design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the benefits of fast local representation learning in CNNs and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ali Hatamizadeh , Greg Heinrich , Hongxu Yin , Andrew Tao , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Priyanka Mudgal , Feng Liu

In the past three years, there has been significant interest in hyperspectral imagery (HSI) classification using vision Transformers for analysis of remotely sensed data. Previous research predominantly focused on the empirical integration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wei Liu , Saurabh Prasad , Melba Crawford

With the popularity of Transformer architectures in computer vision, the research focus has shifted towards developing computationally efficient designs. Window-based local attention is one of the major techniques being adopted in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ammarah Farooq , Muhammad Awais , Sara Ahmed , Josef Kittler

The Swin transformer has recently attracted attention in medical image analysis due to its computational efficiency and long-range modeling capability. Owing to these properties, the Swin Transformer is suitable for establishing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mingrui Ma , Tao Wang , Lei Song , Weijie Wang , Guixia Liu

In the research area of image super-resolution, Swin-transformer-based models are favored for their global spatial modeling and shifting window attention mechanism. However, existing methods often limit self-attention to non overlapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Song-Jiang Lai , Tsun-Hin Cheung , Ka-Chun Fung , Kai-wen Xue , Kin-Man Lam

Transformer-based deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous language and vision tasks. While the self-attention mechanism, a core component of transformers, has proven capable of handling complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Laziz Abdullaev , Tan M. Nguyen

Transformers have recently shown promise for medical image applications, leading to an increasing interest in developing such models for medical image registration. Recent advancements in designing registration Transformers have focused on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Junyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Yufan He , Yong Du

Previous works have shown that increasing the window size for Transformer-based image super-resolution models (e.g., SwinIR) can significantly improve the model performance. Still, the computation overhead is also considerable when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yupeng Zhou , Zhen Li , Chun-Le Guo , Li Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou

We present an efficient approach for Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with hierarchical Vision Transformers (ViTs), allowing the hierarchical ViTs to discard masked patches and operate only on the visible ones. Our approach consists of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Very recently, Window-based Transformers, which computed self-attention within non-overlapping local windows, demonstrated promising results on image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. However, less study has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zilong Huang , Youcheng Ben , Guozhong Luo , Pei Cheng , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

While local-window self-attention performs notably in vision tasks, it suffers from limited receptive field and weak modeling capability issues. This is mainly because it performs self-attention within non-overlapped windows and shares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Qiang Chen , Qiman Wu , Jian Wang , Qinghao Hu , Tao Hu , Errui Ding , Jian Cheng , Jingdong Wang

The self-attention mechanism, a cornerstone of Transformer-based state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, is largely heuristic-driven and fundamentally challenging to interpret. Establishing a robust theoretical foundation to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Laziz U. Abdullaev , Maksim Tkachenko , Tan M. Nguyen