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Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

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The strong performance of vision transformers on image classification and other vision tasks is often attributed to the design of their multi-head attention layers. However, the extent to which attention is responsible for this strong…

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Deep neural networks used in computer vision have been shown to exhibit many social biases such as gender bias. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision applications, outperforming Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Abhishek Mandal , Susan Leavy , Suzanne Little

Although using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as backbones achieves great successes in computer vision, this work investigates a simple backbone network useful for many dense prediction tasks without convolutions. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Wenhai Wang , Enze Xie , Xiang Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Kaitao Song , Ding Liang , Tong Lu , Ping Luo , Ling Shao

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) showed remarkable results in many vision tasks, they are still strained by simple yet challenging visual reasoning problems. Inspired by the recent success of the Transformer network in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Vision transformers (ViTs) are usually considered to be less light-weight than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to the lack of inductive bias. Recent works thus resort to convolutions as a plug-and-play module and embed them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tao Huang , Lang Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Robustness is a vital aspect to consider when deploying deep learning models into the wild. Numerous studies have been dedicated to the study of the robustness of vision transformers (ViTs), which have dominated as the mainstream backbone…

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Recent advancements in medical image analysis have predominantly relied on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), achieving impressive performance in chest X-ray classification tasks, such as the 92% AUC reported by AutoThorax-Net and the…

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Land Use Scene Classification (LUSC) from remote sensing imagery plays a critical role in environmental monitoring, urban planning, and sustainable resource management. In recent years, deep learning methods have significantly advanced the…

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Transformer has been applied in the field of computer vision due to its excellent performance in natural language processing, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks and achieving new state-of-the-art. ViT divides an image into…

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Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder architecture, has not only revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), but has also done some pioneering work in the field of computer vision (CV). Compared to convolutional…

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Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-of-the-art advancement of convolutional neural networks…

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Machine learning researchers strive to develop better and better algorithms to solve computer vision problems, such as image classification. In recent years, the classification of micro-Doppler spectrograms has also benefited from these…

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The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has recently achieved competitive performance across a variety of computer vision tasks. One of the motivations behind ViTs is weaker inductive biases, when compared to convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Akash Umakantha , Joao D. Semedo , S. Alireza Golestaneh , Wan-Yi S. Lin

Enhancing the robustness of deep learning models, particularly in the realm of vision transformers (ViTs), is crucial for their real-world deployment. In this work, we provide a finetuning approach to enhance the robustness of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Haoyang Liu , Aditya Singh , Yijiang Li , Haohan Wang

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

Deep learning technology can be used as an assistive technology to help doctors quickly and accurately identify COVID-19 infections. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown great potential towards image classification due to its global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Hongyan Xu , Xiu Su , Dadong Wang

Wildfires are increasing in intensity, frequency, and duration across large parts of the world as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Modern hazard detection and response systems that deal with wildfires are under-equipped for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Aman Agarwal , James Gearon , Raksha Rank , Etienne Chenevert

Recent studies showcase the competitive accuracy of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in relation to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), along with their remarkable robustness. However, ViTs demand a large amount of data to achieve adequate…

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