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Research in efficient vision backbones is evolving into models that are a mixture of convolutions and transformer blocks. A smart combination of both, architecture-wise and component-wise is mandatory to excel in the speedaccuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Moritz Nottebaum , Matteo Dunnhofer , Christian Micheloni

Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is the core part of the Transformer model, usually suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Reza Azad , René Arimond , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Dorit Merhof

While features of different scales are perceptually important to visual inputs, existing vision transformers do not yet take advantage of them explicitly. To this end, we first propose a cross-scale vision transformer, CrossFormer. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Wenxiao Wang , Wei Chen , Qibo Qiu , Long Chen , Boxi Wu , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang

Recently, diffusion transformers have gained wide attention with its excellent performance in text-to-image and text-to-vidoe models, emphasizing the need for transformers as backbone for diffusion models. Transformer-based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Medical image segmentation takes an important position in various clinical applications. 2.5D-based segmentation models bridge the computational efficiency of 2D-based models with the spatial perception capabilities of 3D-based models.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 De-Xing Huang , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Mei-Jiang Gui , Xiao-Liang Xie , Shi-Qi Liu , Shuang-Yi Wang , Zhen-Qiu Feng , Zhi-Chao Lai , Zeng-Guang Hou

It is a challenging task to learn rich and multi-scale spatiotemporal semantics from high-dimensional videos, due to large local redundancy and complex global dependency between video frames. The recent advances in this research have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Peng Gao , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in advancing healthcare systems for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. The u-shaped architecture, popularly known as U-Net, has proven highly successful for various medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jieneng Chen , Jieru Mei , Xianhang Li , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Qingyue Wei , Xiangde Luo , Yutong Xie , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Matthew Lungren , Lei Xing , Le Lu , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

Pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR) has received increasing attention because of its wide application in video surveillance and pedestrian analysis. Extracting robust feature representation is one of the key challenges in this task. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Xinwen Fan , Yukang Zhang , Yang Lu , Hanzi Wang

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

Temporal convolutions have been the paradigm of choice in action segmentation, which enhances long-term receptive fields by increasing convolution layers. However, high layers cause the loss of local information necessary for frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jiahui Wang , Zhenyou Wang , Shanna Zhuang , Hui Wang

The use of multimodal data in assisted diagnosis and segmentation has emerged as a prominent area of interest in current research. However, one of the primary challenges is how to effectively fuse multimodal features. Most of the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xinxin Fan , Lin Liu , Haoran Zhang

Recently, it has attracted more and more attentions to fuse multi-scale features for semantic image segmentation. Various works were proposed to employ progressive local or global fusion, but the feature fusions are not rich enough for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fangjian Lin , Tianyi Wu , Sitong Wu , Shengwei Tian , Guodong Guo

Both local details and global context are crucial in medical image segmentation, and effectively integrating them is essential for achieving high accuracy. However, existing mainstream methods based on CNN-Transformer hybrid architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Dayu Tan , Zhenpeng Xu , Yansen Su , Xin Peng , Chunhou Zheng , Weimin Zhong

Medical Image Computing (MIC) is a broad research topic covering both pixel-wise (e.g., segmentation, registration) and image-wise (e.g., classification, regression) vision tasks. Effective analysis demands models that capture both global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mingyuan Meng

Local feature matching between images remains a challenging task, especially in the presence of significant appearance variations, e.g., extreme viewpoint changes. In this work, we propose DeepMatcher, a deep Transformer-based network built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Tao Xie , Kun Dai , Ke Wang , Ruifeng Li , Lijun Zhao

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Poojan Oza , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Deep neural networks have been a prevailing technique in the field of medical image processing. However, the most popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based methods for medical image segmentation are imperfect because they model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Time series analysis faces significant challenges in handling variable-length data and achieving robust generalization. While Transformer-based models have advanced time series tasks, they often struggle with feature redundancy and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kai Zhang , Siming Sun , Zhengyu Fan , Qinmin Yang , Xuejun Jiang