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Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

We are witnessing a modeling shift from CNN to Transformers in computer vision. In this work, we present a self-supervised learning approach called MoBY, with Vision Transformers as its backbone architecture. The approach basically has no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zhuliang Yao , Zheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yue Cao , Han Hu

Vision foundation models pretrained on web-scale data have recently shown strong transfer capabilities on many downstream tasks, but their effectiveness for industrial visual inspection remains unclear. Industrial data differ substantially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mehdi Gharbage , Céline Teulière , Pierre Bouges , Thierry Chateau

Vision Transformers (ViTs) is emerging as an alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for visual recognition. They achieve competitive results with CNNs but the lack of the typical convolutional inductive bias makes them more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Yun-Hao Cao , Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Swin Transformers (Swin) are currently state-of-the-art in computational pathology. However, domain experts are still reluctant to use these models due to their lack of interpretability. This is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Manuel Tran , Amal Lahiani , Yashin Dicente Cid , Melanie Boxberg , Peter Lienemann , Christian Matek , Sophia J. Wagner , Fabian J. Theis , Eldad Klaiman , Tingying Peng

Transfer learning is widely used in computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP) and achieves great success. Most transfer learning systems are based on the same modality (e.g. RGB image in CV and text in NLP). However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xiaoke Shen , Ioannis Stamos

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown its advantages over the convolutional neural network (CNN) with its ability to capture global long-range dependencies for visual representation learning. Besides ViT, contrastive learning is another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hua-Bao Ling , Bowen Zhu , Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

This paper addresses the challenges in representation learning of 3D shape features by investigating state-of-the-art backbones paired with both contrastive supervised and self-supervised learning objectives. Computer vision methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Márcus Vinícius Lobo Costa , Sherlon Almeida da Silva , Bárbara Caroline Benato , Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have reigned for a decade as the de facto approach to automated medical image diagnosis. Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have appeared as a competitive alternative to CNNs, yielding similar levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Magnus Söderberg , Kevin Smith

The formidable accomplishment of Transformers in natural language processing has motivated the researchers in the computer vision community to build Vision Transformers. Compared with the Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), a Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tan Yu , Ping Li

Vision transformers (ViTs) have found only limited practical use in processing images, in spite of their state-of-the-art accuracy on certain benchmarks. The reason for their limited use include their need for larger training datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Pranav Jeevan , Amit sethi

The past year has witnessed the rapid development of applying the Transformer module to vision problems. While some researchers have demonstrated that Transformer-based models enjoy a favorable ability of fitting data, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zhengsu Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

As a special type of transformer, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are used to various computer vision applications (CV), such as image recognition. There are several potential problems with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can be solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sonain Jamil , Md. Jalil Piran , Oh-Jin Kwon

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

Though vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of settings, they exhibit surprising failures when performing tasks involving visual relations. This begs the question: how do ViTs attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael A. Lepori , Alexa R. Tartaglini , Wai Keen Vong , Thomas Serre , Brenden M. Lake , Ellie Pavlick

We present a controlled comparison of a convolutional neural network (EfficientNet-B0) and a Vision Transformer (ViT-Base) on SpaceNet under two label-distribution regimes: a naturally imbalanced five-class split and a balanced-resampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Akshar Gothi