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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

Time series forecasting is essential for a wide range of real-world applications. Recent studies have shown the superiority of Transformer in dealing with such problems, especially long sequence time series input(LSTI) and long sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Li Shen , Yangzhu Wang

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhibo Yang , Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Ruoyu Xue , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer architectures offer strengths for modeling temporal data: CNNs excel at capturing local patterns and translational invariances, while transformers effectively model long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Stefano F. Stefenon , João P. Matos-Carvalho , Valderi R. Q. Leithardt , Kin-Choong Yow

Self-attention mechanisms, especially multi-head self-attention (MSA), have achieved great success in many fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, many existing vision transformer (ViT) works simply inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Leijie Wu , Song Guo , Yaohong Ding , Junxiao Wang , Wenchao Xu , Richard Yida Xu , Jie Zhang

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

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

Convolutional neural networks have enabled major progresses in addressing pixel-level prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal prediction and so on, benefiting from their powerful capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Guanglei Yang , Paolo Rota , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Dan Xu , Mingli Ding , Elisa Ricci

Blind-spot networks (BSN) have been prevalent neural architectures in self-supervised image denoising (SSID). However, most existing BSNs are conducted with convolution layers. Although transformers have shown the potential to overcome the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Junyi Li , Zhilu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

Transformers have been successful in many vision tasks, thanks to their capability of capturing long-range dependency. However, their quadratic computational complexity poses a major obstacle for applying them to vision tasks requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Shitao Tang , Jiahui Zhang , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made significant advances in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, standard convolutional kernel neglects the intrinsic connections between data points, resulting in poor region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tinghuai Wang , Guangming Wang , Kuan Eeik Tan , Donghui Tan

Attention mechanisms have become a popular component in deep neural networks, yet there has been little examination of how different influencing factors and methods for computing attention from these factors affect performance. Toward a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Xizhou Zhu , Dazhi Cheng , Zheng Zhang , Stephen Lin , Jifeng Dai

Visual attention brings significant progress for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in various applications. In this paper, object-based attention in human visual cortex inspires us to introduce a mechanism for modification of activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Saeed Masoudnia , Melika Kheirieh , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Transformer-based models have transformed the landscape of natural language processing (NLP) and are increasingly applied to computer vision tasks with remarkable success. These models, renowned for their ability to capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Gracile Astlin Pereira , Muhammad Hussain

Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-of-the-art advancement of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gaby Maroun , Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Fadi Dornaika

Like other applications in computer vision, medical image segmentation has been most successfully addressed using deep learning models that rely on the convolution operation as their main building block. Convolutions enjoy important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Serge Vasylechko , Ali Gholipour

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) were originally inspired by principles of biological vision, have evolved into best current computational models of object recognition, and consequently indicate strong architectural and functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Leonard E. van Dyck , Sebastian J. Denzler , Walter R. Gruber

This paper presents a novel approach to address the challenges of understanding the prediction process and debugging prediction errors in Vision Transformers (ViT), which have demonstrated superior performance in various computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Seok-Yong Byun , Wonju Lee