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Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Convolutional architectures have proven extremely successful for vision tasks. Their hard inductive biases enable sample-efficient learning, but come at the cost of a potentially lower performance ceiling. Vision Transformers (ViTs) rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Hugo Touvron , Matthew Leavitt , Ari Morcos , Giulio Biroli , Levent Sagun

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

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

As a special type of transformer, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are used to various computer vision applications (CV), such as image recognition. There are several potential problems with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can be solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sonain Jamil , Md. Jalil Piran , Oh-Jin Kwon

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Modern machine learning models for computer vision exceed humans in accuracy on specific visual recognition tasks, notably on datasets like ImageNet. However, high accuracy can be achieved in many ways. The particular decision function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shikhar Tuli , Ishita Dasgupta , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths

Detecting plant diseases is a crucial aspect of modern agriculture, as it plays a key role in maintaining crop health and increasing overall yield. Traditional approaches, though still valuable, often rely on manual inspection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saber Mehdipour , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel , Seyed Amirhossein Tabatabaei

For computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the go-to deep net architectures. Despite being inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), ViTs' output remains sensitive to small spatial shifts in the input, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Teck-Yian Lim , Minh N. Do , Raymond A. Yeh

Transformers have emerged as a competitive alternative to convnets in vision tasks, yet they lack the architectural inductive bias of convnets, which may hinder their potential performance. Specifically, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hagay Michaeli , Daniel Soudry

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

While models derived from Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been phonemically surging, pre-trained models cannot seamlessly adapt to arbitrary resolution images without altering the architecture and configuration, such as sampling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Song Zhang , Qingzhong Wang , Jiang Bian , Haoyi Xiong

Several recent studies have demonstrated that attention-based networks, such as Vision Transformer (ViT), can outperform Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on several computer vision tasks without using convolutional layers. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shanda Li , Xiangning Chen , Di He , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated significant potential in various vision tasks due to its strong ability in modelling long-range dependencies. However, such success is largely fueled by training on massive samples. In real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bowei Zhang , Yi Zhang

In recent years, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful and promising techniques for computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Visual Transformers (VTs) are emerging as an architectural paradigm alternative to Convolutional networks (CNNs). Differently from CNNs, VTs can capture global relations between image elements and they potentially have a larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Wei Bi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently gained significant attention in solving computer vision (CV) problems due to its capability of extracting informative features and modeling long-range dependencies through the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in various vision tasks. However, they tend to underperform on smaller datasets due to their inherent lack of inductive biases. Current approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alan Luo , Kaiwen Yuan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have reigned for a decade as the de facto approach to automated medical image diagnosis, pushing the state-of-the-art in classification, detection and segmentation tasks. Over the last years, vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Moein Sorkhei , Magnus Söderberg , Kevin Smith