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Vision Transformers have witnessed prevailing success in a series of vision tasks. However, these Transformers often rely on extensive computational costs to achieve high performance, which is burdensome to deploy on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wei Li , Xing Wang , Xin Xia , Jie Wu , Jiashi Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Shiping Wen

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a variety of vision tasks, replacing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Meanwhile, since ViT has a different architecture than CNN, it may behave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Dong Gu Lee , Wonseok Jeong , Sang Woo Kim

We present ProtoViT, a method for interpretable image classification combining deep learning and case-based reasoning. This method classifies an image by comparing it to a set of learned prototypes, providing explanations of the form ``this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chiyu Ma , Jon Donnelly , Wenjun Liu , Soroush Vosoughi , Cynthia Rudin , Chaofan Chen

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built by stacking independently parameterized blocks, but it remains unclear how much of this depth requires layer specific transformations and how much can be realized through recurrent computation. We study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michal Byra , Pawel Olszowiec , Grzegorz Stefanski , Grzegorz Gruszczynski , Alberto Presta

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

Recently, vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have achieved promising performances in various computer vision tasks. Yet the high computational costs and training data requirements of ViTs limit their application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual tasks. However, ViT models suffer from substantial computational and memory requirements, making it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Navin Ranjan , Andreas Savakis

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has become widely recognized in computer vision, leveraging its self-attention mechanism to achieve remarkable success across various tasks. Despite its strengths, ViT's optimization remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyu Yun , Hamid Krim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently dominated a range of computer vision tasks, yet it suffers from low training data efficiency and inferior local semantic representation capability without appropriate inductive bias. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Cong Wang , Hongmin Xu , Xiong Zhang , Li Wang , Zhitong Zheng , Haifeng Liu

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

In recent years, the results of view-based 3D shape recognition methods have saturated, and models with excellent performance cannot be deployed on memory-limited devices due to their huge size of parameters. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Lixiang Xu , Qingzhe Cui , Richang Hong , Wei Xu , Enhong Chen , Xin Yuan , Chenglong Li , Yuanyan Tang

With the advancement of deep learning technologies, specialized neural processing hardware such as Brain Processing Units (BPUs) have emerged as dedicated platforms for CNN acceleration, offering optimized INT8 computation capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jinchi Tang , Yan Guo

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely successful in 2D human pose estimation, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising alternative to CNNs, boosting state-of-the-art performance. However, the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kaleab A. Kinfu , Rene Vidal

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are normally regarded as a stack of transformer layers. In this work, we propose a novel view of ViTs showing that they can be seen as ensemble networks containing multiple parallel paths with different lengths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision Transformers convert images to sequences by slicing them into patches. The size of these patches controls a speed/accuracy tradeoff, with smaller patches leading to higher accuracy at greater computational cost, but changing the…

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

In fine-grained image recognition (FGIR), the localization and amplification of region attention is an important factor, which has been explored a lot by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based approaches. The recently developed vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yunqing Hu , Xuan Jin , Yin Zhang , Haiwen Hong , Jingfeng Zhang , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Vision Transformer (ViT) is a pioneering deep learning framework that can address real-world computer vision issues, such as image classification and object recognition. Importantly, ViTs are proven to outperform traditional deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yuda Bi , Anees Abrol , Zening Fu , Vince Calhoun

Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yi Zhang , Lingxiao Wei , Bowei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Kai Yi , Shu Hu