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Vision transformers (ViTs) have dominated computer vision in recent years. However, ViTs are computationally expensive and not well suited for mobile devices; this led to the prevalence of convolutional neural network (CNN) and ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mustafa Munir , Md Mostafijur Rahman , Radu Marculescu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have low power consumption and bio-interpretable characteristics, and are considered to have tremendous potential for energy-efficient computing. However, the exploration of SNNs on image generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shu Yang , Hanzhi Ma , Chengting Yu , Aili Wang , Er-Ping Li

In this paper, we aim to redesign the vision Transformer (ViT) as a new backbone to realize semantic image transmission, termed wireless image transmission transformer (WITT). Previous works build upon convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Ke Yang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kailin Tan , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of popularity in recent years, due to their exceptional capabilities in modeling long-range spatial dependencies and scalability for large scale training. Although the training parallelism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Michael Ranzinger , Shiyi Lan , Jose M. Alvarez , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

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

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown its advantages over the convolutional neural network (CNN) with its ability to capture global long-range dependencies for visual representation learning. Besides ViT, contrastive learning is another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hua-Bao Ling , Bowen Zhu , Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Deep learning has led to considerable advances in text-to-speech synthesis. Most recently, the adoption of Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs), has gained traction due to their ability…

U-Nets are among the most widely used architectures in computer vision, renowned for their exceptional performance in applications such as image segmentation, denoising, and diffusion modeling. However, a theoretical explanation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Song Mei

The remarkable representational power of Vision Transformers (ViTs) remains underutilized in few-shot image classification. In this work, we introduce ViT-ProtoNet, which integrates a ViT-Small backbone into the Prototypical Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abdulvahap Mutlu , Şengül Doğan , Türker Tuncer

Transformers are state-of-the-art deep learning models that are composed of stacked attention and point-wise, fully connected layers designed for handling sequential data. Transformers are not only ubiquitous throughout Natural Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Onur Kara , Arijit Sehanobish , Hector H Corzo

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

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have dominated and achieved state-of-the-art performances in a variety of medical imaging applications. However, the performances of ConvNets are still limited by lacking the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Junyu Chen , Yufan He , Eric C. Frey , Ye Li , Yong Du

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahao Wang , Ning Kang , Lewei Yao , Mengzhao Chen , Chengyue Wu , Songyang Zhang , Shuchen Xue , Yong Liu , Taiqiang Wu , Xihui Liu , Kaipeng Zhang , Shifeng Zhang , Wenqi Shao , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

Vision Transformers and U-Net architectures have been widely adopted in the implementation of Diffusion Models. However, each architecture presents specific challenges while realizing them on-device. Vision Transformers require positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sanchar Palit , Sathya Veera Reddy Dendi , Mallikarjuna Talluri , Raj Narayana Gadde

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze