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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.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Teck-Yian Lim , Minh N. Do , Raymond A. Yeh

Despite its clinical utility, medical image segmentation (MIS) remains a daunting task due to images' inherent complexity and variability. Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently emerged as a promising solution to improve MIS; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

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

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become a universal backbone for both image recognition and image generation. Yet their Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) layer still performs a quadratic query-key interaction for every token pair, spending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yifan Pu , Jixuan Ying , Qixiu Li , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Xiaochen Wang , Ziyi Wang , Xinyu Shao , Gao Huang , Xiu Li

Parameter inference is a crucial task in modern cosmology that requires accurate and fast computational methods to handle the high precision and volume of observational datasets. In this study, we explore a hybrid vision transformer, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Yash Gondhalekar , Kana Moriwaki

In recent years, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown promising classification performance over Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) due to their self-attention mechanism. Many researchers have incorporated ViTs for Hyperspectral Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Shyam Varahagiri , Aryaman Sinha , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

Vision Transformer (ViT) extends the application range of transformers from language processing to computer vision tasks as being an alternative architecture against the existing convolutional neural networks (CNN). Since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Byeongho Heo , Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han , Sanghyuk Chun , Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh

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

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 have attracted a lot of attention recently since the successful implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT) on vision tasks. With vision Transformers, specifically the multi-head self-attention modules, networks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiangyu Chen , Ying Qin , Wenju Xu , Andrés M. Bur , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Recently, the Vision Transformer (ViT), which applied the transformer structure to the image classification task, has outperformed convolutional neural networks. However, the high performance of the ViT results from pre-training using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Seung Hoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in large-scale image classification. However, when training from scratch on small datasets, there is still a significant performance gap between ViTs and Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Dongjing Shan , guiqiang chen

Dense computer vision tasks such as object detection and segmentation require effective multi-scale feature representation for detecting or classifying objects or regions with varying sizes. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Youngwan Lee , Jonghee Kim , Jeff Willette , Sung Ju Hwang

The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Gousia Habib , Damandeep Singh , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Although using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as backbones achieves great successes in computer vision, this work investigates a simple backbone network useful for many dense prediction tasks without convolutions. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Wenhai Wang , Enze Xie , Xiang Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Kaitao Song , Ding Liang , Tong Lu , Ping Luo , Ling Shao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Linxiang Su

Hybrids of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) have outperformed pure CNN or ViT architecture. However, since these architectures require large parameters and incur large computational costs, they are unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mikhael Djajapermana , Moritz Reiber , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann