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Accurate medical image segmentation is an integral part of the medical image analysis pipeline that requires the ability to merge local and global information. While vision transformers are able to capture global interactions using vanilla…

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In recent years, the long-range attention mechanism of vision transformers has driven significant performance breakthroughs across various computer vision tasks. However, the traditional self-attention mechanism, which processes both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tianyi Zhang , Baoxin Li , Jae-sun Seo , Yu Cao

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become a leading tool in various computer vision tasks, owing to its unique self-attention mechanism that learns visual representations explicitly through cross-patch information interactions. Despite having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jie Ma , Yalong Bai , Bineng Zhong , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Transformers have revolutionized computer vision and natural language processing, but their high computational complexity limits their application in high-resolution image processing and long-context analysis. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuchen Duan , Weiyun Wang , Zhe Chen , Xizhou Zhu , Lewei Lu , Tong Lu , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai , Wenhai Wang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial preprocessing procedure for the subsequent HSI applications. Unfortunately, though witnessing the development of deep learning in HSI denoising area, existing convolution-based methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Miaoyu Li , Ying Fu , Yulun Zhang

Existing point-cloud based 3D object detectors use convolution-like operators to process information in a local neighbourhood with fixed-weight kernels and aggregate global context hierarchically. However, non-local neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Chengjie Huang , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Transformers have demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). The quadratic computational complexity of window self-attention mechanisms in many transformer-based SR methods forces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fayaz Ali , Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Radu Timofte

Vision transformers (ViTs) have pushed the state-of-the-art for various visual recognition tasks by patch-wise image tokenization followed by self-attention. However, the employment of self-attention modules results in a quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jiachen Lu , Jinghan Yao , Junge Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Hang Xu , Weiguo Gao , Chunjing Xu , Tao Xiang , Li Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success in various vision tasks. However, many architectures do not consider interactions between feature maps from different stages and scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Liang Shang , Yanli Liu , Zhengyang Lou , Shuxue Quan , Nagesh Adluru , Bochen Guan , William A. Sethares

Despite the exciting performance, Transformer is criticized for its excessive parameters and computation cost. However, compressing Transformer remains as an open problem due to its internal complexity of the layer designs, i.e., Multi-Head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yan Wang , Liujuan Cao , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Transformer has been very successful in various computer vision tasks and understanding the working mechanism of transformer is important. As touchstones, weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and class activation map (CAM) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Lianghui Zhu , Yingyue Li , Jiemin Fang , Yan Liu , Hao Xin , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. To reduce the quadratic computation complexity caused by the global self-attention, various methods constrain the range of attention within a local region to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Sitong Wu , Tianyi Wu , Haoru Tan , Guodong Guo

The increasing scale and complexity of modern model parameters underscore the importance of pre-trained models. However, deployment often demands architectures of varying sizes, exposing limitations of conventional pre-training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yucheng Xie , Fu Feng , Ruixiao Shi , Jing Wang , Yong Rui , Xin Geng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently become the state-of-the-art across many computer vision tasks. In contrast to convolutional networks (CNNs), ViTs enable global information sharing even within shallow layers of a network, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jongwoo Park , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Donghyun Kim , Shivchander Sudalairaj , Quanfu Fan , Michael S. Ryoo

Transformer models are computationally costly on long sequences since regular attention has quadratic $O(n^2)$ time complexity. We introduce Wavelet-Enhanced Random Spectral Attention (WERSA), a novel mechanism of linear $O(n)$ time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Vincenzo Dentamaro

Attention is the critical component of a transformer. Yet the quadratic computational complexity of vanilla full attention in the input size and the inability of its linear attention variant to focus have been challenges for computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nhat Thanh Tran , Fanghui Xue , Shuai Zhang , Jiancheng Lyu , Yunling Zheng , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of attention in the field of computer vision. Generally, the powerful representative capacity of ViTs mainly benefits from the self-attention mechanism, which has a high computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Deli Yu , Teng Xi , Jianwei Li , Baopu Li , Gang Zhang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Very recently, Window-based Transformers, which computed self-attention within non-overlapping local windows, demonstrated promising results on image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. However, less study has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zilong Huang , Youcheng Ben , Guozhong Luo , Pei Cheng , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

Self-attention mechanisms have achieved great success on a variety of NLP tasks due to its flexibility of capturing dependency between arbitrary positions in a sequence. For problems such as query-based summarization (Qsumm) and knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Xie , Tianyi Zhou , Yi Mao , Weizhu Chen

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures are becoming increasingly popular and widely employed to tackle computer vision applications. Their main feature is the capacity to extract global information through the self-attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini , Luping Zhou