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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

Recent Vision Transformer~(ViT) models have demonstrated encouraging results across various computer vision tasks, thanks to their competence in modeling long-range dependencies of image patches or tokens via self-attention. These models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Sucheng Ren , Daquan Zhou , Shengfeng He , Jiashi Feng , Xinchao Wang

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) rely on fixed-size kernels scanning local patches, which limits their ability to capture global context or long-range dependencies without very deep architectures. Vision Transformers (ViTs), in turn,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Gijs Joppe Moens , Regina Beets-Tan , Eduardo H. P. Pooch

Neural networks for visual content understanding have recently evolved from convolutional ones (CNNs) to transformers. The prior (CNN) relies on small-windowed kernels to capture the regional clues, demonstrating solid local expressiveness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zixuan Su , Hao Zhang , Jingjing Chen , Lei Pang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Capturing the long-range dependencies has empirically proven to be effective on a wide range of computer vision tasks. The progressive advances on this topic have been made through the employment of the transformer framework with the help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dong Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

We make the information transmitted by attention an explicit, measurable quantity in vision transformers. By inserting variational information bottlenecks on all attention-mediated writes to the residual stream -- without other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Kieran A. Murphy

Surface inspection systems are an important application domain for computer vision, as they are used for defect detection and classification in the manufacturing industry. Existing systems use hand-crafted features which require extensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 Selim Arikan , Kiran Varanasi , Didier Stricker

Cortical surface analysis has gained increased prominence, given its potential implications for neurological and developmental disorders. Traditional vision diffusion models, while effective in generating natural images, present limitations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Zhenshan Xie , Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , M. Jorge Cardoso , Emma C. Robinson

Window-based attention has become a popular choice in vision transformers due to its superior performance, lower computational complexity, and less memory footprint. However, the design of hand-crafted windows, which is data-agnostic,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qiming Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yufei Xu , Dacheng Tao

Spatio-temporal representational learning has been widely adopted in various fields such as action recognition, video object segmentation, and action anticipation. Previous spatio-temporal representational learning approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefan Zha , Wentao Zhu , Tingxun Lv , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

Learning 3D point sets with rotational invariance is an important and challenging problem in machine learning. Through rotational invariant architectures, 3D point cloud neural networks are relieved from requiring a canonical global pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hedi Zisling , Andrei Sharf

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are ubiquitous in computer vision, with a myriad of effective and efficient variations. Recently, Transformers -- originally introduced in natural language processing -- have been increasingly adopted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peng Gao , Jiasen Lu , Hongsheng Li , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Renlong Hang , Zhu Li , Qingshan Liu , Pedram Ghamisi , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

We propose an adaptation to the training of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that allows for an explicit modeling of objects during the attention computation. This is achieved by adding a new branch to selected attention layers that computes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Vivek Trivedy , Amani Almalki , Longin Jan Latecki

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

We present CpT: Convolutional point Transformer - a novel deep learning architecture for dealing with the unstructured nature of 3D point cloud data. CpT is an improvement over existing attention-based Convolutions Neural Networks as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Chaitanya Kaul , Joshua Mitton , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos