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Humans see low spatial frequency components before high spatial frequency components. Drawing on this neuroscientific inspiration, we investigate the effect of introducing patches from different spatial frequencies into Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuyang Shu , Michael E. Bain

In recent years, Transformers have achieved remarkable progress in computer vision tasks. However, their global modeling often comes with substantial computational overhead, in stark contrast to the human eye's efficient information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yuguang Zhang , Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang

Vision transformers (ViTs) inherited the success of NLP but their structures have not been sufficiently investigated and optimized for visual tasks. One of the simplest solutions is to directly search the optimal one via the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saebom Leem , Hyunseok Seo

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

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

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) showed remarkable results in many vision tasks, they are still strained by simple yet challenging visual reasoning problems. Inspired by the recent success of the Transformer network in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

We present an efficient approach for Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with hierarchical Vision Transformers (ViTs), allowing the hierarchical ViTs to discard masked patches and operate only on the visible ones. Our approach consists of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

This study examines various feature extraction techniques in computer vision, the primary focus of which is on Vision Transformers (ViTs) and other approaches such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), deep feature models, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Venant Niyonkuru , Sylla Sekou , Jimmy Jackson Sinzinkayo

Current state-of-the-art methods for image captioning employ region-based features, as they provide object-level information that is essential to describe the content of images; they are usually extracted by an object detector such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Van-Quang Nguyen , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have long been the architecture of choice for computer vision tasks. Recently, Transformer-based architectures like Vision Transformer (ViT) have matched or even surpassed ResNets for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ayan Chakrabarti , Daniel Glasner , Daliang Li , Thomas Unterthiner , Andreas Veit

Recent advancements in vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated that larger models often achieve superior performance. However, training these models remains computationally intensive and costly. To address this challenge, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Han Hu , Yunhe Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on challenging vision tasks, but their deployment on edge devices is severely hindered by the computational complexity and global reduction bottleneck imposed by layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kieran Carrigg , Sigur de Vries , Amirhossein Sadough , Marcel van Gerven

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

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

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely successful in 2D human pose estimation, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising alternative to CNNs, boosting state-of-the-art performance. However, the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kaleab A. Kinfu , Rene Vidal

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are normally regarded as a stack of transformer layers. In this work, we propose a novel view of ViTs showing that they can be seen as ensemble networks containing multiple parallel paths with different lengths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

This work presents a simple vision transformer design as a strong baseline for object localization and instance segmentation tasks. Transformers recently demonstrate competitive performance in image classification tasks. To adopt ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Wuyang Chen , Xianzhi Du , Fan Yang , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Huizhong Chen , Jing Li , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Radiographs are a versatile diagnostic tool for the detection and assessment of pathologies, for treatment planning or for navigation and localization purposes in clinical interventions. However, their interpretation and assessment by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

In robot learning, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are standard for visual perception, yet most methods discard valuable information by using only the final layer's features. We argue this provides an insufficient representation and propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenhao Li , Chengwei Ma , Weixin Mao