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Transformers are widely used as generic backbones in computer vision, despite initially introduced for natural language processing. Recently, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) has been extended to a scalable and performant architecture -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Benedikt Alkin , Maximilian Beck , Korbinian Pöppel , Sepp Hochreiter , Johannes Brandstetter

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently taken computer vision by storm. However, the softmax attention underlying ViTs comes with a quadratic complexity in time and memory, hindering the application of ViTs to high-resolution images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Chuanyang Zheng

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

The emergence of Vision Transformers (ViTs) has revolutionized computer vision, yet their effectiveness compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in medical imaging remains under-explored. This study presents a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Kunal Kawadkar

The recent success of Vision Transformers has generated significant interest in attention mechanisms and transformer architectures. Although existing methods have proposed spiking self-attention mechanisms compatible with spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj

Computer vision has achieved remarkable success by (a) representing images as uniformly-arranged pixel arrays and (b) convolving highly-localized features. However, convolutions treat all image pixels equally regardless of importance;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Bichen Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaoliang Dai , Alvin Wan , Peizhao Zhang , Zhicheng Yan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Joseph Gonzalez , Kurt Keutzer , Peter Vajda

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) are widely employed for medical image segmentation, but they are still challenged by their intrinsic characteristics. CNNs are limited from capturing varying-scaled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown rapid progress in computer vision tasks, achieving promising results on various benchmarks. However, due to the massive number of parameters and model design, \textit{e.g.}, attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yanyu Li , Geng Yuan , Yang Wen , Ju Hu , Georgios Evangelidis , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Recently, the Vision Transformer (ViT) model has replaced the classical Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) in various computer vision tasks due to its superior performance. Even in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification field,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Haizhao Jing , Liuwei Wan , Xizhe Xue , Haokui Zhang , Ying Li

Despite the widespread adoption of transformers in medical applications, the exploration of multi-scale learning through transformers remains limited, while hierarchical representations are considered advantageous for computer-aided medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Man Minh Ho , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are models that are utilized extensively for the hierarchical extraction of features. Vision transformers (ViTs), through the use of a self-attention mechanism, have recently achieved superior modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Danfeng Hong , Peter M Atkinson , Pedram Ghamisi

This paper investigates two techniques for developing efficient self-supervised vision transformers (EsViT) for visual representation learning. First, we show through a comprehensive empirical study that multi-stage architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chunyuan Li , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Mei Gao , Bin Xiao , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are pivotal for foundational models in scientific imagery, including Earth science applications, due to their capability to process large sequence lengths. While transformers for text has inspired scaling sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aristeidis Tsaris , Chengming Zhang , Xiao Wang , Junqi Yin , Siyan Liu , Moetasim Ashfaq , Ming Fan , Jong Youl Choi , Mohamed Wahib , Dan Lu , Prasanna Balaprakash , Feiyi Wang

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

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual tasks. However, ViT models suffer from substantial computational and memory requirements, making it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Navin Ranjan , Andreas Savakis

In recent years, the scientific community has focused on the development of CAD tools that could improve bone fractures' classification, mostly based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, the discerning accuracy of fractures'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Leonardo Tanzi , Andrea Audisio , Giansalvo Cirrincione , Alessandro Aprato , Enrico Vezzetti

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated the significant potential of transformer architectures for computer vision. To what extent can image-based deep reinforcement learning also benefit from ViT architectures, as compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianxin Tao , Daniele Reda , Michiel van de Panne