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Transformers have achieved widespread and remarkable success, while the computational complexity of their attention modules remains a major bottleneck for vision tasks. Existing methods mainly employ 8-bit or 4-bit quantization to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chaodong Xiao , Zhengqiang Zhang , Lei Zhang

Attention-based beamformers have recently been shown to be effective for multi-channel speech recognition. However, they are less capable at capturing local information. In this work, we propose a 2D Conv-Attention module which combines…

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Transformer has shown great successes in natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. As one of its core components, the softmax attention helps to capture long-range dependencies yet prohibits its scale-up due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zhen Qin , Weixuan Sun , Hui Deng , Dongxu Li , Yunshen Wei , Baohong Lv , Junjie Yan , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

Recently proposed fine-grained 3D visual grounding is an essential and challenging task, whose goal is to identify the 3D object referred by a natural language sentence from other distractive objects of the same category. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Dailan He , Yusheng Zhao , Junyu Luo , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Aixi Zhang , Si Liu

Transformers have gained much attention by outperforming convolutional neural networks in many 2D vision tasks. However, they are known to have generalization problems and rely on massive-scale pre-training and sophisticated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Tianchen Zhao , Niansong Zhang , Xuefei Ning , He Wang , Li Yi , Yu Wang

Transformer-based neural networks have surpassed promising performance on many biomedical image segmentation tasks due to a better global information modeling from the self-attention mechanism. However, most methods are still designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Detecting and segmenting small objects, such as lung nodules and tumor lesions, remains a critical challenge in image analysis. These objects often occupy less than 0.1% of an image, making traditional transformer architectures inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Theodore Zhao , Sid Kiblawi , Naoto Usuyama , Ho Hin Lee , Sam Preston , Hoifung Poon , Mu Wei

Transformer models have recently garnered significant attention in image restoration due to their ability to capture long-range pixel dependencies. However, long-range attention often results in computational overhead without practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Qifan Li , Tianyi Liang , Xingtao Wang , Xiaopeng Fan

We address the task of identifying distracted driving by analyzing in-car videos using efficient transformers. Although transformer models have achieved outstanding performance in human action recognition tasks, their high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ricardo Pizarro , Roberto Valle , Rafael Barea , Jose M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela , Luis Miguel Bergasa

Motion forecasting for autonomous driving is a challenging task because complex driving scenarios result in a heterogeneous mix of static and dynamic inputs. It is an open problem how best to represent and fuse information about road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Nigamaa Nayakanti , Rami Al-Rfou , Aurick Zhou , Kratarth Goel , Khaled S. Refaat , Benjamin Sapp

Although Transformers have successfully transitioned from their language modelling origins to image-based applications, their quadratic computational complexity remains a challenge, particularly for dense prediction. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Yong Xia , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

The quadratic computation complexity of self-attention has been a persistent challenge when applying Transformer models to vision tasks. Linear attention, on the other hand, offers a much more efficient alternative with its linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Dongchen Han , Xuran Pan , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Attention (and distraction) recognition is a key factor in improving human-robot collaboration. We present an assembly scenario where a human operator and a cobot collaborate equally to piece together a gearbox. The setup provides multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Pooja Prajod , Matteo Lavit Nicora , Matteo Malosio , Elisabeth André

Transformer has been widely-used in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and the scaled dot-product attention between tokens is a core module of Transformer. This attention is a token-wise design and its complexity is quadratic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Shuai Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xindian Ma , Junqiu Wei , Ningning Wang , Qun Liu

Transformers have made great progress in dealing with computer vision tasks. However, existing vision transformers do not yet possess the ability of building the interactions among features of different scales, which is perceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Wenxiao Wang , Lu Yao , Long Chen , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

The transformer-based semantic segmentation approaches, which divide the image into different regions by sliding windows and model the relation inside each window, have achieved outstanding success. However, since the relation modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zizhang Wu , Yuanzhu Gan , Tianhao Xu , Fan Wang

With the rapidly increasing demand for oriented object detection (OOD), recent research involving weakly-supervised detectors for learning rotated box (RBox) from the horizontal box (HBox) has attracted more and more attention. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yi Yu , Xue Yang , Qingyun Li , Feipeng Da , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Junchi Yan

Recently, the transformer model has been successfully employed for the multi-view 3D reconstruction problem. However, challenges remain on designing an attention mechanism to explore the multiview features and exploit their relations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Dick Sigmund , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

In this paper, we propose a novel query design for the transformer-based object detection. In previous transformer-based detectors, the object queries are a set of learned embeddings. However, each learned embedding does not have an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yingming Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Tong Yang , Jian Sun

Transformer-based models have achieved remarkable success in multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) by capturing long-range dependencies. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by the quadratic computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fanpu Cao , Shu Yang , Zhengjian Chen , Ye Liu , Laizhong Cui