English
Related papers

Related papers: Conviformers: Convolutionally guided Vision Transf…

200 papers

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Senthilkumar Kathiresan , Arnav Varma , Omar Magdy , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently brought a new wave of research in the field of computer vision. These models have performed particularly well in image classification and segmentation. Research on semantic and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Modern machine learning models for computer vision exceed humans in accuracy on specific visual recognition tasks, notably on datasets like ImageNet. However, high accuracy can be achieved in many ways. The particular decision function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shikhar Tuli , Ishita Dasgupta , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths

Despite the widespread adoption of transformers in medical applications, the exploration of multi-scale learning through transformers remains limited, while hierarchical representations are considered advantageous for computer-aided medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Man Minh Ho , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yi Zhang , Lingxiao Wei , Bowei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Kai Yi , Shu Hu

As computer vision continues to advance and finds widespread applications across various domains, the need for interpretability in deep learning models becomes paramount. Existing methods often resort to post-hoc techniques or prototypes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Danning Lao , Qi Liu , Jiazi Bu , Junchi Yan , Wei Shen

Assessing the forensic value of hand images involves the use of unique features and patterns present in an individual's hand. The human hand has distinct characteristics, such as the pattern of veins, fingerprints, and the geometry of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Thanh Thi Nguyen , Campbell Wilson , Janis Dalins

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong potential in medical imaging; however, their high computational demands and tendency to overfit on small datasets limit their applicability in real-world clinical scenarios. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Transformers, the de-facto standard for language modeling, have been recently applied for vision tasks. This paper introduces sparse queries for vision transformers to exploit the intrinsic spatial redundancy of natural images and save…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Lin Song , Songyang Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zeming Li , Xuming He , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Computer vision has achieved remarkable success by (a) representing images as uniformly-arranged pixel arrays and (b) convolving highly-localized features. However, convolutions treat all image pixels equally regardless of importance;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Bichen Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaoliang Dai , Alvin Wan , Peizhao Zhang , Zhicheng Yan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Joseph Gonzalez , Kurt Keutzer , Peter Vajda

Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their ability to focus on global relationships in images, offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Asifullah Khan , Zunaira Rauf , Anabia Sohail , Abdul Rehman , Hifsa Asif , Aqsa Asif , Umair Farooq

Cell detection in microscopy images is important to study how cells move and interact with their environment. Most recent deep learning-based methods for cell detection use convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, inspired by the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Royden Wagner , Karl Rohr

Extensive work has demonstrated the effectiveness of Vision Transformers. The plain Vision Transformer tends to obtain multi-scale features by selecting fixed layers, or the last layer of features aiming to achieve higher performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Fangjian Lin , Yizhe Ma , Shengwei Tian

Human vision possesses a special type of visual processing systems called peripheral vision. Partitioning the entire visual field into multiple contour regions based on the distance to the center of our gaze, the peripheral vision provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Juhong Min , Yucheng Zhao , Chong Luo , Minsu Cho

The pretrain-then-finetune paradigm has been widely adopted in computer vision. But as the size of Vision Transformer (ViT) grows exponentially, the full finetuning becomes prohibitive in view of the heavier storage overhead. Motivated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Shibo Jie , Zhi-Hong Deng

Recent advancements in computer vision have highlighted the scalability of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across various tasks, yet challenges remain in balancing adaptability, computational efficiency, and the ability to model higher-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Joshua Fixelle

In recent years, the integration of advanced imaging techniques and deep learning methods has significantly advanced computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer detection and classification. Transformers, which have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mahtab Ranjbar , Mehdi Mohebbi , Mahdi Cherakhloo , Bijan Vosoughi. Vahdat