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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 recently received explosive popularity, but the huge computational cost is still a severe issue. Since the computation complexity of ViT is quadratic with respect to the input sequence length, a mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yifan Xu , Zhijie Zhang , Mengdan Zhang , Kekai Sheng , Ke Li , Weiming Dong , Liqing Zhang , Changsheng Xu , Xing Sun

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have achieved remarkable success in large-scale image recognition. They split every 2D image into a fixed number of patches, each of which is treated as a token. Generally, representing an image with more tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yulin Wang , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Zeyi Huang , Gao Huang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are widely adopted in medical imaging tasks, and some existing efforts have been directed towards vision-language training for Chest X-rays (CXRs). However, we envision that there still exists a potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Umar Marikkar , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Adam Mahdi

We explore the plain, non-hierarchical Vision Transformer (ViT) as a backbone network for object detection. This design enables the original ViT architecture to be fine-tuned for object detection without needing to redesign a hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yanghao Li , Hanzi Mao , Ross Girshick , Kaiming He

Texture, a significant visual attribute in images, has been extensively investigated across various image recognition applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which have been successful in many computer vision tasks, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Leonardo Scabini , Andre Sacilotti , Kallil M. Zielinski , Lucas C. Ribas , Bernard De Baets , Odemir M. Bruno

The remarkable representational power of Vision Transformers (ViTs) remains underutilized in few-shot image classification. In this work, we introduce ViT-ProtoNet, which integrates a ViT-Small backbone into the Prototypical Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abdulvahap Mutlu , Şengül Doğan , Türker Tuncer

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained rapid adoption in computational pathology for their ability to model long-range dependencies through self-attention, addressing the limitations of convolutional neural networks that excel at local…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Fuyao Chen , Yuexi Du , Elèonore V. Lieffrig , Nicha C. Dvornek , John A. Onofrey

ViTs are general and accurate, and address many tasks, but ViTs are slow, and are not always practical when efficiency is key. Existing methods for faster ViTs design hybrid non-ViT architectures, losing generality, or shrink their tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Anthony Fuller , Yousef Yassin , Daniel G. Kyrollos , Evan Shelhamer , James R. Green

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Vision Transformers, ViTs, have emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks, CNNs, in a variety of image-based tasks. While CNNs have previously been evaluated for their ability to perform graphical perception tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Poonam Poonam , Pere-Pau Vázquez , Timo Ropinski

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

This work investigates a simple yet powerful dense prediction task adapter for Vision Transformer (ViT). Unlike recently advanced variants that incorporate vision-specific inductive biases into their architectures, the plain ViT suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhe Chen , Yuchen Duan , Wenhai Wang , Junjun He , Tong Lu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

The hybrid deep models of Vision Transformer (ViT) and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) have emerged as a powerful class of backbones for vision tasks. Scaling up the input resolution of such hybrid backbones naturally strengthes model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei

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 (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

We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

We present a simple self-supervised method to enhance the performance of ViT features for dense downstream tasks. Our Lightweight Feature Transform (LiFT) is a straightforward and compact postprocessing network that can be applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Saksham Suri , Matthew Walmer , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava