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Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Existing methods for driver facial expression recognition (DFER) are often computationally intensive, rendering them unsuitable for real-time applications. In this work, we introduce a novel transfer learning-based dual architecture, named…

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Transformer-based architectures have become the shared backbone of natural language processing and computer vision. However, understanding how these models operate remains challenging, particularly in vision settings, where images are…

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