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We propose global context vision transformer (GC ViT), a novel architecture that enhances parameter and compute utilization for computer vision. Our method leverages global context self-attention modules, joint with standard local…

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Although Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved significant success in computer vision, it does not perform well in dense prediction tasks due to the lack of inner-patch information interaction and the limited diversity of feature scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chunlong Xia , Xinliang Wang , Feng Lv , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, but its high computational demands make it impractical for edge devices with limited resources. This paper presents MicroViT, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Novendra Setyawan , Chi-Chia Sun , Mao-Hsiu Hsu , Wen-Kai Kuo , Jun-Wei Hsieh

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Recently, several Vision Transformer (ViT) based methods have been proposed for Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC).These methods significantly surpass existing CNN-based ones, demonstrating the effectiveness of ViT in FGVC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zi-Chao Zhang , Zhen-Duo Chen , Yongxin Wang , Xin Luo , Xin-Shun Xu

Recently, the Vision Transformer (ViT), which applied the transformer structure to the image classification task, has outperformed convolutional neural networks. However, the high performance of the ViT results from pre-training using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Seung Hoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Vision transformer (ViT) recently has drawn great attention in computer vision due to its remarkable model capability. However, most prevailing ViT models suffer from huge number of parameters, restricting their applicability on devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Kan Wu , Jinnian Zhang , Houwen Peng , Mengchen Liu , Bin Xiao , Jianlong Fu , Lu Yuan

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a range of computer vision tasks; however, their high computational, memory, and energy demands hinder deployment on resource-constrained platforms. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Srivathsan Sivakumar , Faisal Z. Qureshi

Vision Transformers (ViT), when paired with large-scale pretraining, have shown remarkable performance across various computer vision tasks, primarily due to their weak inductive bias. However, while such weak inductive bias aids in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dongyoon Hwang , Byungkun Lee , Hojoon Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Jaegul Choo

Vision transformers are known to be more computationally and data-intensive than CNN models. These transformer models such as ViT, require all the input image tokens to learn the relationship among them. However, many of these tokens are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Foozhan Ataiefard , Walid Ahmed , Habib Hajimolahoseini , Saina Asani , Farnoosh Javadi , Mohammad Hassanpour , Omar Mohamed Awad , Austin Wen , Kangling Liu , Yang Liu

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

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have superseded convolutional neural networks in numerous applications, including classification, detection, and segmentation. However, the high computational requirements of ViTs hinder their widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jemin Lee , Yongin Kwon , Sihyeong Park , Misun Yu , Jeman Park , Hwanjun Song

Transformers, a groundbreaking architecture proposed for Natural Language Processing (NLP), have also achieved remarkable success in Computer Vision. A cornerstone of their success lies in the attention mechanism, which models relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jaihyun Lew , Soohyuk Jang , Jaehoon Lee , Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Saehyung Lee , Jisoo Mok , Siwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong performance across a range of computer vision tasks by modeling long-range spatial interactions via self-attention. However, channel-wise mixing in ViTs remains static, relying on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin

Despite the impressive representation capacity of vision transformer models, current light-weight vision transformer models still suffer from inconsistent and incorrect dense predictions at local regions. We suspect that the power of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chenglin Yang , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , He Zhang , Zijun Wei , Zhe Lin , Alan Yuille

Traditional fault diagnosis methods using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) often struggle with capturing the temporal dynamics of vibration signals. To overcome this, the application of Transformer-based Vision Transformer (ViT) methods…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Shouhua Zhang , Jiehan Zhou , Xue Ma , Susanna Pirttikangas , Chunsheng Yang

The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ethan Huynh

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in large-scale image classification. However, when training from scratch on small datasets, there is still a significant performance gap between ViTs and Convolutional Neural…

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