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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

Visual autoregressive models achieve remarkable generation quality through next-scale predictions across multi-scale token pyramids. However, the conventional method uses uniform scale downsampling to build these pyramids, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaofan Li , Chenming Wu , Yanpeng Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Delin Qu , Yansong Qu , Weihao Bo , Haibao Yu , Dingkang Liang

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Owing to success in the data-rich domain of natural images, Transformers have recently become popular in medical image segmentation. However, the pairing of Transformers with convolutional blocks in varying architectural permutations leaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Michael Baumgartner , Constantin Ulrich , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Self-attention and transformers have been widely used in deep learning. Recent efforts have been devoted to incorporating transformer blocks into different neural architectures, including those with convolutions, leading to various visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang

We investigate the impact of aliasing on generalization in Deep Convolutional Networks and show that data augmentation schemes alone are unable to prevent it due to structural limitations in widely used architectures. Drawing insights from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Cristina Vasconcelos , Hugo Larochelle , Vincent Dumoulin , Rob Romijnders , Nicolas Le Roux , Ross Goroshin

Vision transformers have achieved remarkable progress in vision tasks such as image classification and detection. However, in instance-level image retrieval, transformers have not yet shown good performance compared to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Chull Hwan Song , Jooyoung Yoon , Shunghyun Choi , Yannis Avrithis

Vision Transformers have achieved great success in computer visions, delivering exceptional performance across various tasks. However, their inherent reliance on sequential input enforces the manual partitioning of images into patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Changzhen Li , Jie Zhang , Yang Wei , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Shiguang Shan

Image anomaly detection consists in detecting images or image portions that are visually different from the majority of the samples in a dataset. The task is of practical importance for various real-life applications like biomedical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Axel De Nardin , Pankaj Mishra , Gian Luca Foresti , Claudio Piciarelli

Video frame interpolation is an increasingly important research task with several key industrial applications in the video coding, broadcast and production sectors. Recently, transformers have been introduced to the field resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Issa Khalifeh , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Ebroul Izquierdo

The alignment of adjacent frames is considered an essential operation in video super-resolution (VSR). Advanced VSR models, including the latest VSR Transformers, are generally equipped with well-designed alignment modules. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuwei Shi , Jinjin Gu , Liangbin Xie , Xintao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Chao Dong

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a classification task that points to face variants. Hence, there are certain affinity features between facial expressions, receiving little attention in the FER literature. Convolution padding, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiawei Shi , Songhao Zhu , Zhiwei Liang

While transformer models have been highly successful, they are computationally inefficient. We observe that for each layer, the full width of the layer may be needed only for a small subset of tokens inside a batch and that the "effective"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Bartosz Wójcik , Alessio Devoto , Karol Pustelnik , Pasquale Minervini , Simone Scardapane

The Transformer architecture has achieved significant success in natural language processing, motivating its adaptation to computer vision tasks. Unlike convolutional neural networks, vision transformers inherently capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zherui Zhang , Rongtao Xu , Jie Zhou , Changwei Wang , Xingtian Pei , Wenhao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Li Guo , Longxiang Gao , Wenbo Xu , Shibiao Xu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been shown to be blind, often underutilizing their visual inputs even on tasks that require visual reasoning. In this work, we demonstrate that VLMs are selectively blind. They modulate the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Wan-Cyuan Fan , Jiayun Luo , Declan Kutscher , Leonid Sigal , Ritwik Gupta

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Traditional vision transformer consists of two parts: transformer encoder and multi-layer perception (MLP). The former plays the role of feature learning to obtain better representation, while the latter plays the role of classification.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Jichen Yang , Fangfan Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Zhengyu Zhu , Shunsi Zhang

Transformer, first applied to the field of natural language processing, is a type of deep neural network mainly based on the self-attention mechanism. Thanks to its strong representation capabilities, researchers are looking at ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Zhenhua Liu , Yehui Tang , An Xiao , Chunjing Xu , Yixing Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Yiman Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Vision Transformers (ViTs), when pre-trained on large-scale data, provide general-purpose representations for diverse downstream tasks. However, artifacts in ViTs are widely observed across different supervision paradigms and downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Cheng Shi , Yizhou Yu , Sibei Yang