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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, their emphasis on global context often comes at the expense of local feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Puskal Khadka , Rodrigue Rizk , Longwei Wang , KC Santosh

There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie , Chuanbin Liu , Yongdong Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) enabled the use of the transformer architecture on vision tasks showing impressive performances when trained on big datasets. However, on relatively small datasets, ViTs are less accurate given their lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Guglielmo Camporese , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan

Utilizing well-trained representations in transfer learning often results in superior performance and faster convergence compared to training from scratch. However, even if such good representations are transferred, a model can easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 SeokHyun Seo , Jinwoo Hong , JungWoo Chae , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

The few-shot learning ability of vision transformers (ViTs) is rarely investigated though heavily desired. In this work, we empirically find that with the same few-shot learning frameworks, \eg~Meta-Baseline, replacing the widely used CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Bowen Dong , Pan Zhou , Shuicheng Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

Supervised learning can learn large representational spaces, which are crucial for handling difficult learning tasks. However, due to the design of the model, classical image classification approaches struggle to generalize to new problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Safwen Naimi , Rien van Leeuwen , Wided Souidene , Slim Ben Saoud

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful transformers bring a huge computation burden, because of the exhausting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhuofan Zong , Kunchang Li , Guanglu Song , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Biao Leng , Yu Liu

The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance over various computer vision tasks. However, modeling global correlations with multi-head self-attention (MSA) layers leads to two widely recognized issues: the massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Liu , Zizheng Pan , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have successfully been applied to image classification problems where large annotated datasets are available. On the other hand, when fewer annotations are available, such as in biomedical applications, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Felipe A. Quezada , Carlos F. Navarro , Cristian Muñoz , Manuel Zamorano , Jorge Jara-Wilde , Violeta Chang , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Mauricio Cerda

In recent years, Vision Transformers have attracted increasing interest from computer vision researchers. However, the advantage of these transformers over CNNs is only fully manifested when trained over a large dataset, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inherently encode strong inductive biases, enabling effective generalization on small-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose integrating this inductive bias into ViTs, not through an architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification, yet their attention mechanisms often remain opaque and exhibit dense, non-structured behaviors. In this work, we adapt our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have shown impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled images. This paper aims to improve their performance further by utilizing the architectural advantages of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sukmin Yun , Hankook Lee , Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin

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

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti