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Transformers, which are popular for language modeling, have been explored for solving vision tasks recently, e.g., the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. The ViT model splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed…

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Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models, particularly in safety-critical applications like healthcare and autonomous driving. Recently, patch based attacks have demonstrated effectiveness in real-time inference…

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For computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the go-to deep net architectures. Despite being inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), ViTs' output remains sensitive to small spatial shifts in the input, i.e.,…

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Skin lesion segmentation (SLS) plays an important role in skin lesion analysis. Vision transformers (ViTs) are considered an auspicious solution for SLS, but they require more training data compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

The synergy of long-range dependencies from transformers and local representations of image content from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has led to advanced architectures and increased performance for various medical image analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yiqing Shen , Pengfei Guo , Jingpu Wu , Qianqi Huang , Nhat Le , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Mathias Unberath

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently gained significant attention in solving computer vision (CV) problems due to its capability of extracting informative features and modeling long-range dependencies through the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have long been the architecture of choice for computer vision tasks. Recently, Transformer-based architectures like Vision Transformer (ViT) have matched or even surpassed ResNets for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ayan Chakrabarti , Daniel Glasner , Daliang Li , Thomas Unterthiner , Andreas Veit

Vision transformers rely on a patch token based self attention mechanism, in contrast to convolutional networks. We investigate fundamental differences between these two families of models, by designing a block sparsity based adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ameya Joshi , Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

The remarkable success of transformers across various fields such as natural language processing and computer vision has paved the way for their applications in automatic modulation classification, a critical component in the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lu Zhang , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Gan Zheng , Guisheng Liao , Xuekang Liu , Fabio Roli , Carsten Maple

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly used in computer vision due to their high performance, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a concern. Existing methods lack a solid theoretical basis, focusing mainly on empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xixu Hu , Runkai Zheng , Jindong Wang , Cheuk Hang Leung , Qi Wu , Xing Xie

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

Generative adversarial models with convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones have recently been established as state-of-the-art in numerous medical image synthesis tasks. However, CNNs are designed to perform local processing with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Onat Dalmaz , Mahmut Yurt , Tolga Çukur

With the advancement of vision transformers (ViTs) and self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques, pre-trained large ViTs have become the new foundation models for computer vision applications. However, studies have shown that, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Weijie Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. However, the high costs of global self-attention remain challenging for Transformers, especially for high-resolution vision tasks. Inspired by one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

Since being introduced in 2020, Vision Transformers (ViT) has been steadily breaking the record for many vision tasks and are often described as ``all-you-need" to replace ConvNet. Despite that, ViTs are generally computational,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chuong H. Nguyen , Su Huynh , Vinh Nguyen , Ngoc Nguyen

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

Vision transformer (ViT) is an attention neural network architecture that is shown to be effective for computer vision tasks. However, compared to ResNet-18 with a similar number of parameters, ViT has a significantly lower evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Haoran Zhu , Boyuan Chen , Carter Yang

Self-attention in Transformers comes with a high computational cost because of their quadratic computational complexity, but their effectiveness in addressing problems in language and vision has sparked extensive research aimed at enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tobias Christian Nauen , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Recently, Pyramid Adversarial training (Herrmann et al., 2022) has been shown to be very effective for improving clean accuracy and distribution-shift robustness of vision transformers. However, due to the iterative nature of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Ping-yeh Chiang , Yipin Zhou , Omid Poursaeed , Satya Narayan Shukla , Ashish Shah , Tom Goldstein , Ser-Nam Lim

Adversarial Training (AT) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is an effective approach for improving the robustness of the deep neural networks. However, PGD AT has been shown to suffer from two main limitations: i) high computational…

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