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In this paper, we propose a method using the fusion of CNN and transformer structure to improve image classification performance. In the case of CNN, information about a local area on an image can be extracted well, but there is a limit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Keong Hun Choi , Jin Woo Kim , Yao Wang , Jong Eun Ha

Deep learning has shown a tremendous growth in hashing techniques for image retrieval. Recently, Transformer has emerged as a new architecture by utilizing self-attention without convolution. Transformer is also extended to Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh , Wei-Ta Chu

The architecture of transformers, which recently witness booming applications in vision tasks, has pivoted against the widespread convolutional paradigm. Relying on the tokenization process that splits inputs into multiple tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Shengju Qian , Yi Zhu , Wenbo Li , Mu Li , Jiaya Jia

Despite the growing use of transformer models in computer vision, a mechanistic understanding of these networks is still needed. This work introduces a method to reverse-engineer Vision Transformers trained to solve image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Martina G. Vilas , Timothy Schaumlöffel , Gemma Roig

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Vision transformers are nowadays the de-facto choice for image classification tasks. There are two broad categories of classification tasks, fine-grained and coarse-grained. In fine-grained classification, the necessity is to discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Mohit Vaishnav , Thomas Fel , Ivań Felipe Rodríguez , Thomas Serre

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

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

Our objective is language-based search of large-scale image and video datasets. For this task, the approach that consists of independently mapping text and vision to a joint embedding space, a.k.a. dual encoders, is attractive as retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Antoine Miech , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Andrew Zisserman

Vision transformer has achieved impressive performance for many vision tasks. However, it may suffer from high redundancy in capturing local features for shallow layers. Local self-attention or early-stage convolutions are thus utilized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huaibo Huang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

We attempt to reduce the computational costs in vision transformers (ViTs), which increase quadratically in the token number. We present a novel training paradigm that trains only one ViT model at a time, but is capable of providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingbao Lin , Mengzhao Chen , Yuxin Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Rongrong Ji , Liujuan Cao

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

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

Transformers have achieved great success in natural language processing. Due to the powerful capability of self-attention mechanism in transformers, researchers develop the vision transformers for a variety of computer vision tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Bo-Kai Ruan , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Transformers are widely applied to solve natural language understanding and computer vision tasks. While scaling up these architectures leads to improved performance, it often comes at the expense of much higher computational costs. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Cedric Renggli , André Susano Pinto , Neil Houlsby , Basil Mustafa , Joan Puigcerver , Carlos Riquelme

Astounding results from Transformer models on natural language tasks have intrigued the vision community to study their application to computer vision problems. Among their salient benefits, Transformers enable modeling long dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Salman Khan , Muzammal Naseer , Munawar Hayat , Syed Waqas Zamir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Transformers have recently gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, existing studies mostly use Transformers for feature representation learning, e.g. for image classification and dense predictions, and the generalizability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao

Although convolutional networks (ConvNets) have enjoyed great success in computer vision (CV), it suffers from capturing global information crucial to dense prediction tasks such as object detection and segmentation. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Haotian Yan , Zhe Li , Weijian Li , Changhu Wang , Ming Wu , Chuang Zhang

Transformers have become the standard in state-of-the-art vision architectures, achieving impressive performance on both image-level and dense pixelwise tasks. However, training vision transformers for high-resolution pixelwise tasks has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vincent Leroy , Jerome Revaud , Thomas Lucas , Philippe Weinzaepfel

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos