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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 Transformer (ViT) attains state-of-the-art performance in visual recognition, and the variant, Local Vision Transformer, makes further improvements. The major component in Local Vision Transformer, local attention, performs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Qi Han , Zejia Fan , Qi Dai , Lei Sun , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiaying Liu , Jingdong Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) models have demonstrated a breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, compared to the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, it has been observed that the ViT models struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Babak Azad , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hans Thisanke , Chamli Deshan , Kavindu Chamith , Sachith Seneviratne , Rajith Vidanaarachchi , Damayanthi Herath

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

To address the high resolution of image pixels, the Swin Transformer introduces window attention. This mechanism divides an image into non-overlapping windows and restricts attention computation to within each window, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zhendong Zhang

In this work, we introduce Dual Attention Vision Transformers (DaViT), a simple yet effective vision transformer architecture that is able to capture global context while maintaining computational efficiency. We propose approaching the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Mingyu Ding , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Ping Luo , Jingdong Wang , Lu Yuan

It is well believed that Transformer performs better in semantic segmentation compared to convolutional neural networks. Nevertheless, the original Vision Transformer may lack of inductive biases of local neighborhoods and possess a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wentao Shi , Jing Xu , Pan Gao

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Recently Transformer has shown good performance in several vision tasks due to its powerful modeling capabilities. To reduce the quadratic complexity caused by the attention, some outstanding work restricts attention to local regions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Fangjian Lin , Yizhe Ma , Sitong Wu , Long Yu , Shengwei Tian

We explore the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation and propose the SegVit. Previous ViT-based segmentation networks usually learn a pixel-level representation from the output of the ViT. Differently, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Bowen Zhang , Zhi Tian , Quan Tang , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaolin Wei , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu

The architecture of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) commonly connects a vision encoder, often based on CLIP-ViT, to a large language model. While CLIP-ViT works well for capturing global image features, it struggles to model local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haoran Lou , Chunxiao Fan , Ziyan Liu , Yuexin Wu , Xinliang Wang

Despite the widespread adoption of transformers in medical applications, the exploration of multi-scale learning through transformers remains limited, while hierarchical representations are considered advantageous for computer-aided medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Man Minh Ho , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

We design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the benefits of fast local representation learning in CNNs and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ali Hatamizadeh , Greg Heinrich , Hongxu Yin , Andrew Tao , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saebom Leem , Hyunseok Seo

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

Semantic segmentation assigns labels to pixels in images, a critical yet challenging task in computer vision. Convolutional methods, although capturing local dependencies well, struggle with long-range relationships. Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

Intrigued by the inherent ability of the human visual system to identify salient regions in complex scenes, attention mechanisms have been seamlessly integrated into various Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Building upon this paradigm, Vision…

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly adopted in sensitive vision applications, there is a growing demand for improved interpretability. This has led to efforts to forward-align these models with carefully annotated abstract,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang