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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sayak Paul , Pin-Yu Chen

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel at clean image classification, they struggle to classify images corrupted with different common corruptions, limiting their real-world applicability. Recent work has shown that incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lucas Piper , Arlindo L. Oliveira , Tiago Marques

The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits, Transformers are witnessed as capable of learning long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Moein Heidari , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirali Molaei , Yiwei Jia , Abin Jose , Rijo Roy , Dorit Merhof

In recent developments in the field of Computer Vision, a rise is seen in the use of transformer-based architectures. They are surpassing the state-of-the-art set by CNN architectures in accuracy but on the other hand, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Durvesh Malpure , Onkar Litake , Rajesh Ingle

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be highly effective in solving a broad spectrum of computer vision tasks, such as classification, identification, and segmentation. These methods can be deployed in both centralized and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Victor Forattini Jansen , Emanuel Teixeira Martins , Yasmin Souza Lima , Flavio de Oliveira Silva , Rodrigo Moreira , Larissa Ferreira Rodrigues Moreira

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have revolutionized computer vision and are often advocated as good models of the human visual system. However, there are currently many shortcomings of DCNNs, which preclude them as a model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Harshitha Machiraju , Oh-Hyeon Choung , Pascal Frossard , Michael. H Herzog

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have so far been the de-facto model for visual data. Recent work has shown that (Vision) Transformer models (ViT) can achieve comparable or even superior performance on image classification tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Maithra Raghu , Thomas Unterthiner , Simon Kornblith , Chiyuan Zhang , Alexey Dosovitskiy

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

Recent advances in Vision Transformer (ViT) have demonstrated its impressive performance in image classification, which makes it a promising alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike CNNs, ViT represents an input image as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp , Yao Qin

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are able to hierarchically preserve the pose relationships between multiple objects for image classification tasks. Other than achieving high accuracy, another relevant factor in deploying CapsNets in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alberto Marchisio , Antonio De Marco , Alessio Colucci , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

With the tremendous advances in the architecture and scale of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) over the past few decades, they can easily reach or even exceed the performance of humans in certain tasks. However, a recently discovered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yanxi Li , Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

A major area of growth within deep learning has been the study and implementation of convolutional neural networks. The general explanation within the deep learning community of the robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Kian Ghodoussi , Nihar Sheth , Zane Durante , Markie Wagner

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have reigned for a decade as the de facto approach to automated medical image diagnosis. Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have appeared as a competitive alternative to CNNs, yielding similar levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Magnus Söderberg , Kevin Smith

The convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most commonly used architectures for computer vision tasks. The key building block of a CNN is the convolutional kernel that aggregates information from the pixel neighborhood and shares…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianyu Ma , Alan Q. Wang , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

The field of machine learning has taken a dramatic twist in recent times, with the rise of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN). These biologically inspired computational models are able to far exceed the performance of previous forms of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Keiron O'Shea , Ryan Nash

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a variety of vision tasks, replacing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Meanwhile, since ViT has a different architecture than CNN, it may behave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Dong Gu Lee , Wonseok Jeong , Sang Woo Kim

Vision transformers are effective deep learning models for vision tasks, including medical image segmentation. However, they lack efficiency and translational invariance, unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To model long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Liam Chalcroft , Ruben Lourenço Pereira , Mikael Brudfors , Andrew S. Kayser , Mark D'Esposito , Cathy J. Price , Ioannis Pappas , John Ashburner