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In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of various self-supervised Vision Transformers (ViTs), focusing on their local representative power. Inspired by large language models, we examine the abilities of ViTs to perform various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ani Vanyan , Alvard Barseghyan , Hakob Tamazyan , Vahan Huroyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Martin Danelljan

In contemporary computer vision applications, particularly image classification, architectural backbones pre-trained on large datasets like ImageNet are commonly employed as feature extractors. Despite the widespread use of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Contrastive learning has shown to learn better quality representations than models trained using cross-entropy loss. They also transfer better to downstream datasets from different domains. However, little work has been done to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Alvin De Jun Tan , Clement Tan , Chai Kiat Yeo

In video action recognition, transformers consistently reach state-of-the-art accuracy. However, many models are too heavyweight for the average researcher with limited hardware resources. In this work, we explore the limitations of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Raivo Koot , Markus Hennerbichler , Haiping Lu

The vision transformer (ViT) has advanced to the cutting edge in the visual recognition task. Transformers are more robust than CNN, according to the latest research. ViT's self-attention mechanism, according to the claim, makes it more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Salman Rahman , Wonkwon Lee

Motivated by the success of Transformers in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, there emerge some attempts (e.g., ViT and DeiT) to apply Transformers to the vision domain. However, pure Transformer architectures often require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kun Yuan , Shaopeng Guo , Ziwei Liu , Aojun Zhou , Fengwei Yu , Wei Wu

ConvNets and Imagenet have driven the recent success of deep learning for image classification. However, the marked slowdown in performance improvement combined with the lack of robustness of neural networks to adversarial examples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pierre Stock , Moustapha Cisse

Image Classification is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision that frequently serves as a benchmark for gauging advancements in Computer Vision. Over the past few years, significant progress has been made in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mahmoud Khalil , Ahmad Khalil , Alioune Ngom

Recently, data-driven deep saliency models have achieved high performance and have outperformed classical saliency models, as demonstrated by results on datasets such as the MIT300 and SALICON. Yet, there remains a large gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sen He , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Ali Borji , Yang Mi , Nicolas Pugeault

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated great potential in various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we introduce a ternary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Teli Ma , Bohan Zeng , Baochang Zhang , Peng Gao , Jinhu Lv

Transformers have recently shown superior performances on various vision tasks. The large, sometimes even global, receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power over their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

While machine learning is currently transforming the field of histopathology, the domain lacks a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art models based on essential but complementary quality requirements beyond a mere classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maximilian Springenberg , Annika Frommholz , Markus Wenzel , Eva Weicken , Jackie Ma , Nils Strodthoff

Given the significant advances in machine learning techniques on mobile devices, particularly in the domain of computer vision, in this work we quantitatively study the performance characteristics of 190 real-world vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Deep neural networks may be susceptible to learning spurious correlations that hold on average but not in atypical test samples. As with the recent emergence of vision transformer (ViT) models, it remains underexplored how spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Soumya Suvra Ghosal , Yifei Ming , Yixuan Li

Neural networks have become the standard technique for medical diagnostics, especially in cancer detection and classification. This work evaluates the performance of Vision Transformers architectures, including Swin Transformer and MaxViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Óscar A. Martín , Javier Sánchez

Many researchers believe that ConvNets perform well on small or moderately sized datasets, but are not competitive with Vision Transformers when given access to datasets on the web-scale. We challenge this belief by evaluating a performant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Samuel L. Smith , Andrew Brock , Leonard Berrada , Soham De

Deep learning models have shown remarkable success in dermatological image analysis, offering potential for automated skin disease diagnosis. Previously, convolutional neural network(CNN) based architectures have achieved immense popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rifat Sadik , Tanvir Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharjee , Bikash Chandra Halder , Ismail Hossain , Mridul Banik , Jia Uddin

Our review explores the comparative analysis between Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the domain of image classification, with a particular focus on clothing classification within the e-commerce sector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sonia Bbouzidi , Ghazala Hcini , Imen Jdey , Fadoua Drira