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Attention mechanisms, and most prominently self-attention, are a powerful building block for processing not only text but also images. These provide a parameter efficient method for aggregating inputs. We focus on self-attention in vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Nichita Diaconu , Daniel E Worrall

Vision transformers have attracted much attention from computer vision researchers as they are not restricted to the spatial inductive bias of ConvNets. However, although Transformer-based backbones have achieved much progress on ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

The Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates exceptional performance in various computer vision tasks. Attention is crucial for ViT to capture complex wide-ranging relationships among image patches, allowing the model to weigh the importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-22 Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Teruyuki Katsuoka , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Kouichi Taji , Ichiro Takeuchi

While the Self-Attention mechanism in the Transformer model has proven to be effective in many domains, we observe that it is less effective in more diverse settings (e.g. multimodality) due to the varying granularity of each token and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wayner Barrios , SouYoung Jin

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a competitive alternative to convolutional neural networks for various computer vision applications. Specifically, ViT multi-head attention layers make it possible to embed information globally across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jyotikrishna Dass , Shang Wu , Huihong Shi , Chaojian Li , Zhifan Ye , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

Vision Transformer (ViT) is known to be highly nonlinear like other classical neural networks and could be easily fooled by both natural and adversarial patch perturbations. This limitation could pose a threat to the deployment of ViT in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuheng Huang , Lei Ma , Yuanchun Li

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) showed remarkable results in many vision tasks, they are still strained by simple yet challenging visual reasoning problems. Inspired by the recent success of the Transformer network in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Vision transformers (ViTs) quantization offers a promising prospect to facilitate deploying large pre-trained networks on resource-limited devices. Fully-binarized ViTs (Bi-ViT) that pushes the quantization of ViTs to its limit remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Mingbao Lin , Xianbin Cao , Chuanjian Liu , Xiao Sun , Baochang Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve strong data-driven scaling by leveraging all-to-all self-attention. However, this flexibility incurs a computational cost that scales quadratically with image resolution, limiting ViTs in high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alan Z. Song , Yinjie Chen , Mu Nan , Rui Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Weijian Mai , Muquan Yu , Hossein Adeli , Deva Ramanan , Michael J. Tarr , Andrew F. Luo

Given the significant advances in machine learning techniques on mobile devices, particularly in the domain of computer vision, in this work we quantitatively study the performance characteristics of 190 real-world vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

It is a challenging task to learn discriminative representation from images and videos, due to large local redundancy and complex global dependency in these visual data. Convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Junhao Zhang , Peng Gao , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

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

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

We present Recurrent Vision Transformers (RVTs), a novel backbone for object detection with event cameras. Event cameras provide visual information with sub-millisecond latency at a high-dynamic range and with strong robustness against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Deep neural networks have been shown to perform poorly on adversarial examples. To address this, several techniques have been proposed to increase robustness of a model for image classification tasks. However, in video understanding tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Divya Choudhary , Palash Goyal , Saurabh Sahu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built on the assumption of treating image patches as ``visual tokens" and learn patch-to-patch attention. The patch embedding based tokenizer has a semantic gap with respect to its counterpart, the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ryan Grainger , Thomas Paniagua , Xi Song , Naresh Cuntoor , Mun Wai Lee , Tianfu Wu

Vision Transformers has demonstrated competitive performance on computer vision tasks benefiting from their ability to capture long-range dependencies with multi-head self-attention modules and multi-layer perceptron. However, calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qinghao Hu , Kaidong Li , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

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

Deep learning vision systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, yet they remain vulnerable to small adversarial patches that can trigger misclassifications. Most existing defenses assume a single patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Aja Khanal , Ahmed Faid , Apurva Narayan

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Long Zhao , Zizhao Zhang , Ting Chen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Han Zhang