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Image super-resolution (SR) has significantly advanced through the adoption of Transformer architectures. However, conventional techniques aimed at enlarging the self-attention window to capture broader contexts come with inherent…

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Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in compressive image sensing. However, due to the inductive bias of locality and weight sharing, the convolution operations demonstrate the intrinsic limitations in modeling the long-range…

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Deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer architectures, have become the focus of extensive research in medical image segmentation, achieving impressive results. However, CNNs come with inductive biases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiao Liu , Peng Gao , Tao Yu , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Recently, Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks due to the ability of global feature extraction. However, the capabilities of Transformers that need to incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Wenjie Li , Juncheng Li , Guangwei Gao , Jiantao Zhou , Jian Yang , Guo-Jun Qi

The Swin Transformer image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction network primarily depends on the long-range relationship of the window and shifted window attention to explore features. However, this approach focuses only on global features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuming Huang , Yingpin Chen , Changhui Wu , Binhui Song , Hui Wang

Transformers have driven remarkable breakthroughs in natural language processing and computer vision, yet their standard attention mechanism still imposes O(N^2) complexity, hindering scalability to longer sequences. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yoshihiro Yamada

Following their success in natural language processing, transformers have recently shown much promise for computer vision. The self-attention operation underlying transformers yields global interactions between all tokens ,i.e. words or…

Transformers have emerged as viable alternatives to convolutional neural networks owing to their ability to learn non-local region relationships in the spatial domain. The self-attention mechanism of the transformer enables transformers to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Rahul G. S. , Sriprabha Ramnarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Keerthi Ram , Preejith S. P , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

We propose TAIN (Transformers and Attention for video INterpolation), a residual neural network for video interpolation, which aims to interpolate an intermediate frame given two consecutive image frames around it. We first present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hannah Halin Kim , Shuzhi Yu , Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

To manage the complexity of transformers in video compression, local attention mechanisms are a practical necessity. The common approach of partitioning frames into patches, however, creates architectural flaws like irregular receptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Alexander Kopte , André Kaup

Scene text image super-resolution aims to increase the resolution and readability of the text in low-resolution images. Though significant improvement has been achieved by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jianqi Ma , Zhetong Liang , Lei Zhang

In this paper, we present Co-scale conv-attentional image Transformers (CoaT), a Transformer-based image classifier equipped with co-scale and conv-attentional mechanisms. First, the co-scale mechanism maintains the integrity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Weijian Xu , Yifan Xu , Tyler Chang , Zhuowen Tu

We design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the benefits of fast local representation learning in CNNs and global…

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Recently, with the advance of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), person Re-Identification (Re-ID) has witnessed great success in various applications. However, with limited receptive fields of CNNs, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Guowen Zhang , Pingping Zhang , Jinqing Qi , Huchuan Lu

We present CSWin Transformer, an efficient and effective Transformer-based backbone for general-purpose vision tasks. A challenging issue in Transformer design is that global self-attention is very expensive to compute whereas local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Transformers, with their self-attention mechanisms for modeling long-range dependencies, have become a dominant paradigm in image restoration tasks. However, the high computational cost of self-attention limits scalability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Hanzhou Liu , Binghan Li , Chengkai Liu , Mi Lu

Recent transformer-based super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved promising results against conventional CNN-based methods. However, these approaches suffer from essential shortsightedness created by only utilizing the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jinsu Yoo , Taehoon Kim , Sihaeng Lee , Seung Hwan Kim , Honglak Lee , Tae Hyun Kim

In recent years, various applications in computer vision have achieved substantial progress based on deep learning, which has been widely used for image fusion and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, suffering from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zhengwen Shen , Jun Wang , Zaiyu Pan , Yulian Li , Jiangyu Wang

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

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