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Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However,…

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Transformers, composed of multiple self-attention layers, hold strong promises toward a generic learning primitive applicable to different data modalities, including the recent breakthroughs in computer vision achieving state-of-the-art…

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We assess the tendency of state-of-the-art object recognition models to depend on signals from image backgrounds. We create a toolkit for disentangling foreground and background signal on ImageNet images, and find that (a) models can…

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Label noise in medical image classification datasets significantly hampers the training of supervised deep learning methods, undermining their generalizability. The test performance of a model tends to decrease as the label noise rate…

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The aim of this paper is to study the influence of locality mechanisms in vision transformers. Transformers originated from machine translation and are particularly good at modelling long-range dependencies within a long sequence. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yawei Li , Kai Zhang , Jiezhang Cao , Radu Timofte , Michele Magno , Luca Benini , Luc Van Gool

Existing visual change detectors usually adopt CNNs or Transformers for feature representation learning and focus on learning effective representation for the changed regions between images. Although good performance can be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Bo Jiang , Zitian Wang , Xixi Wang , Ziyan Zhang , Lan Chen , Xiao Wang , Bin Luo

Deep learning models often rely only on a small set of features even when there is a rich set of predictive signals in the training data. This makes models brittle and sensitive to distribution shifts. In this work, we first examine vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Armand Mihai Nicolicioiu , Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu , Bogdan Alexe , Damien Teney

The strong performance of vision transformers on image classification and other vision tasks is often attributed to the design of their multi-head attention layers. However, the extent to which attention is responsible for this strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have rapidly gained prominence in medical imaging tasks such as disease classification, segmentation, and detection due to their superior accuracy compared to conventional deep learning models. However, due to…

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Unlike Object Detection, Visual Grounding task necessitates the detection of an object described by complex free-form language. To simultaneously model such complex semantic and visual representations, recent state-of-the-art studies adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Luowei Zhou , Junyi Wu , Changchang Sun , Yan Yan

Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a comprehensive study on the robustness of vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saebom Leem , Hyunseok Seo

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Vision Transformers (ViTs), when pre-trained on large-scale data, provide general-purpose representations for diverse downstream tasks. However, artifacts in ViTs are widely observed across different supervision paradigms and downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Cheng Shi , Yizhou Yu , Sibei Yang

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have dominated and achieved state-of-the-art performances in a variety of medical imaging applications. However, the performances of ConvNets are still limited by lacking the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Junyu Chen , Yufan He , Eric C. Frey , Ye Li , Yong Du

Recent studies show that Vision Transformers(ViTs) exhibit strong robustness against various corruptions. Although this property is partly attributed to the self-attention mechanism, there is still a lack of systematic understanding. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Daquan Zhou , Zhiding Yu , Enze Xie , Chaowei Xiao , Anima Anandkumar , Jiashi Feng , Jose M. Alvarez

Following their success in visual recognition tasks, Vision Transformers(ViTs) are being increasingly employed for image restoration. As a few recent works claim that ViTs for image classification also have better robustness properties, we…

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Change detection in remote sensing images is essential for tracking environmental changes on the Earth's surface. Despite the success of vision transformers (ViTs) as backbones in numerous computer vision applications, they remain…

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