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There is a recent trend in the LiDAR perception field towards unifying multiple tasks in a single strong network with improved performance, as opposed to using separate networks for each task. In this paper, we introduce a new LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zixiang Zhou , Dongqiangzi Ye , Weijia Chen , Yufei Xie , Yu Wang , Panqu Wang , Hassan Foroosh

Self-attention has become a defacto choice for capturing global context in various vision applications. However, its quadratic computational complexity with respect to image resolution limits its use in real-time applications, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Abdelrahman Shaker , Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Depth estimation from a single image is of paramount importance in the realm of computer vision, with a multitude of applications. Conventional methods suffer from the trade-off between consistency and fine-grained details due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Md Awsafur Rahman , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, called Swin Transformer, that capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. Challenges in adapting Transformer from language to vision arise from differences between the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ze Liu , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Yixuan Wei , Zheng Zhang , Stephen Lin , Baining Guo

Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better denoising performance. Window transformer can use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Zhiwu Li , David Zhang

Image restoration has witnessed significant advancements with the development of deep learning models. Transformer-based models, particularly those using window-based self-attention, have become a dominant force. However, their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu , Liqiang Nie

Surface meshes are a favoured domain for representing structural and functional information on the human cortex, but their complex topology and geometry pose significant challenges for deep learning analysis. While Transformers have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

We present CSWin Transformer, an efficient and effective Transformer-based backbone for general-purpose vision tasks. A challenging issue in Transformer design is that global self-attention is very expensive to compute whereas local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Local feature matching between images remains a challenging task, especially in the presence of significant appearance variations, e.g., extreme viewpoint changes. In this work, we propose DeepMatcher, a deep Transformer-based network built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Tao Xie , Kun Dai , Ke Wang , Ruifeng Li , Lijun Zhao

Visual place recognition is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, and autonomous robotics and vehicles, which aims to identify a location or a place from visual inputs. Contemporary methods in visual place recognition employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

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

Transformers have demonstrated great potential in computer vision tasks. To avoid dense computations of self-attentions in high-resolution visual data, some recent Transformer models adopt a hierarchical design, where self-attentions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jinpeng Li , Yichao Yan , Shengcai Liao , Xiaokang Yang , Ling Shao

Vision Transformers face a fundamental limitation: standard self-attention jointly processes spatial and channel dimensions, leading to entangled representations that prevent independent modeling of structural and semantic dependencies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiashu Liao , Pietro Liò , Marc de Kamps , Duygu Sarikaya

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the consensus for medical image segmentation tasks. However, they suffer from the limitation in modeling long-range dependencies and spatial correlations due to the nature of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Moein Heidari , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Milad Soltany , Reza Azad , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

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

Recent studies indicate that hierarchical Vision Transformer with a macro architecture of interleaved non-overlapped window-based self-attention \& shifted-window operation is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yuxin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Rui Wu , Wenyu Liu

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Following the success in language domain, the self-attention mechanism (transformer) is adopted in the vision domain and achieving great success recently. Additionally, as another stream, multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is also explored in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mocho Go , Hideyuki Tachibana

Due to various and complicated snow degradations, single image desnowing is a challenging image restoration task. As prior arts can not handle it ideally, we propose a novel transformer, SnowFormer, which explores efficient cross-attentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yun Liu , Erkang Chen

While features of different scales are perceptually important to visual inputs, existing vision transformers do not yet take advantage of them explicitly. To this end, we first propose a cross-scale vision transformer, CrossFormer. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Wenxiao Wang , Wei Chen , Qibo Qiu , Long Chen , Boxi Wu , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu