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Transformer has been applied in the field of computer vision due to its excellent performance in natural language processing, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks and achieving new state-of-the-art. ViT divides an image into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuang Liu , Zhiheng Qiu , Xiaokai Qin

We explore Multi-Head FFN (MH-FFN) as a replacement of FFN in the Transformer architecture, motivated by the structural similarity between single-head attention and FFN. While multi-head mechanisms enhance expressivity in attention, naively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Minshen Zhang , Xiang Hu , Jianguo Li , Wei Wu , Kewei Tu

The state-of-the-art approaches in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to learn a mapping function from one image domain to another with unpaired image data. However, these methods often produce artifacts and can only be able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Generating images according to natural language descriptions is a challenging task. Prior research has mainly focused to enhance the quality of generation by investigating the use of spatial attention and/or textual attention thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Henning Schulze , Dogucan Yaman , Alexander Waibel

Transformer-based models have emerged as a leading architecture for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation tasks. A fundamental element of the transformer architecture is self-attention, which allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Venmugil Elango

Deformable Attention Transformers (DAT) have shown remarkable performance in computer vision tasks by adaptively focusing on informative image regions. However, their data-dependent sampling mechanism introduces irregular memory access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wendong Mao , Mingfan Zhao , Jianfeng Guan , Qiwei Dong , Zhongfeng Wang

In computer vision tasks, the ability to focus on relevant regions within an image is crucial for improving model performance, particularly when key features are small, subtle, or spatially dispersed. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mahmudul Hasan

Many sparse attention mechanisms such as Neighborhood Attention have typically failed to consistently deliver speedup over the self attention baseline. This is largely due to the level of complexity in attention infrastructure, and the…

The quadratic computation complexity of self-attention has been a persistent challenge when applying Transformer models to vision tasks. Linear attention, on the other hand, offers a much more efficient alternative with its linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Dongchen Han , Xuran Pan , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Recent models for image processing are using the Convolutional neural network (CNN) which requires a pixel per pixel analysis of the input image. This method works well. However, it is time-consuming if we have large images. To increase the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed Karim Belaid

Transformers are quickly becoming one of the most heavily applied deep learning architectures across modalities, domains, and tasks. In vision, on top of ongoing efforts into plain transformers, hierarchical transformers have also gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ali Hassani , Humphrey Shi

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Vision transformers have shown great success on numerous computer vision tasks. However, its central component, softmax attention, prohibits vision transformers from scaling up to high-resolution images, due to both the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Weixuan Sun , Zhen Qin , Hui Deng , Jianyuan Wang , Yi Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Nick Barnes , Stan Birchfield , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

Given the wide and ever growing range of different efficient Transformer attention mechanisms, it is important to identify which attention is most effective when given a task. In this work, we are also interested in combining different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jason Ross Brown , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert D Mullins

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive performance in low-level visual tasks such as Image Super-Resolution (SR). However, its computational complexity grows quadratically with the spatial resolution. A series of works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xin Liu , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Qinkai Yu , Haochen Xue , Xiaobo Jin , Xi Yang

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

The traditional super-resolution methods that aim to minimize the mean square error usually produce the images with over-smoothed and blurry edges, due to the lose of high-frequency details. In this paper, we propose two novel techniques in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yitong Yan , Chuangchuang Liu , Changyou Chen , Xianfang Sun , Longcun Jin , Xiang Zhou

Humans can effectively find salient regions in complex scenes. Self-attention mechanisms were introduced into Computer Vision (CV) to achieve this. Attention Augmented Convolutional Network (AANet) is a mixture of convolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Runqing Zhang , Tianshu Zhu