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Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Quan Kong , Yanru Xiao , Yuhao Shen , Cong Wang

Training vision transformer networks on small datasets poses challenges. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance by leveraging their architectural inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

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

Visual attention modeling has recently gained momentum in developing visual hierarchies provided by Convolutional Neural Networks. Despite recent successes of feedforward processing on the abstraction of concepts form raw images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jen Hong Tan

Texture recognition has recently been dominated by ImageNet-pre-trained deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), with specialized modifications and feature engineering required to achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Leonardo Scabini , Kallil M. Zielinski , Emir Konuk , Ricardo T. Fares , Lucas C. Ribas , Kevin Smith , Odemir M. Bruno

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

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging has become a prominent modality for breast cancer imaging due to its ease-of-use, low-cost and safety. In the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the method of choice in vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Behnaz Gheflati , Hassan Rivaz

Continual learning is a longstanding research topic due to its crucial role in tackling continually arriving tasks. Up to now, the study of continual learning in computer vision is mainly restricted to convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Deep learning technology can be used as an assistive technology to help doctors quickly and accurately identify COVID-19 infections. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown great potential towards image classification due to its global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Hongyan Xu , Xiu Su , Dadong Wang

Image representations, from SIFT and bag of visual words to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a crucial component of almost all computer vision systems. However, our understanding of them remains limited. In this paper we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Aravindh Mahendran , Andrea Vedaldi

Visual recognition has been dominated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for years. Though recently the prevailing vision transformers (ViTs) have shown great potential of self-attention based models in ImageNet classification, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Li Yuan , Qibin Hou , Zihang Jiang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Learning representations with self-supervision for convolutional networks (CNN) has been validated to be effective for vision tasks. As an alternative to CNN, vision transformers (ViT) have strong representation ability with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhong-Yu Li , Shanghua Gao , Ming-Ming Cheng

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become one of the most popular neural architectures due to its great scalability, computational efficiency, and compelling performance in many vision tasks. However, ViT has shown inferior performance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Junfei Xiao , Yutong Bai , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaoran Yang , Shuhan Yu , Wenxi Xu

Due to the lack of quality annotation in medical imaging community, semi-supervised learning methods are highly valued in image semantic segmentation tasks. In this paper, an advanced consistency-aware pseudo-label-based self-ensembling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Ziyang Wang , Tianze Li , Jian-Qing Zheng , Baoru Huang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of artificial neural networks widely used in computer vision tasks. Most CNNs achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. In addition to increasing the depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Junyi An , Fengshan Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently become the state-of-the-art across many computer vision tasks. In contrast to convolutional networks (CNNs), ViTs enable global information sharing even within shallow layers of a network, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jongwoo Park , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Donghyun Kim , Shivchander Sudalairaj , Quanfu Fan , Michael S. Ryoo

This paper presents a comparison of the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the task of multi-classifying images containing lesions of psoriasis and diseases similar to it. Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Natanael Lucena , Fábio S. da Silva , Ricardo Rios

Recent advances on Vision Transformer (ViT) and its improved variants have shown that self-attention-based networks surpass traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in most vision tasks. However, existing ViTs focus on the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Gege Qi , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Ranjie Duan , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Hui Xue