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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become prominent models for solving various vision tasks. However, the interpretability of ViTs has not kept pace with their promising performance. While there has been a surge of interest in developing {\it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie , Chuanbin Liu , Yongdong Zhang

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Change detection in remote sensing images is essential for tracking environmental changes on the Earth's surface. Despite the success of vision transformers (ViTs) as backbones in numerous computer vision applications, they remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Duowang Zhu , Xiaohu Huang , Haiyan Huang , Zhenfeng Shao , Qimin Cheng

This paper proposes a working recipe of using Vision Transformer (ViT) in class incremental learning. Although this recipe only combines existing techniques, developing the combination is not trivial. Firstly, naive application of ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pei Yu , Yinpeng Chen , Ying Jin , Zicheng Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have reigned for a decade as the de facto approach to automated medical image diagnosis. Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have appeared as a competitive alternative to CNNs, yielding similar levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Christos Matsoukas , Johan Fredin Haslum , Magnus Söderberg , Kevin Smith

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

We present a comparative study on how and why contrastive learning (CL) and masked image modeling (MIM) differ in their representations and in their performance of downstream tasks. In particular, we demonstrate that self-supervised Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Namuk Park , Wonjae Kim , Byeongho Heo , Taekyung Kim , Sangdoo Yun

Nowadays, Vision Transformer (ViT) is widely utilized in various computer vision tasks, owing to its unique self-attention mechanism. However, the model architecture of ViT is complex and often challenging to comprehend, leading to a steep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hong Zhou , Rui Zhang , Peifeng Lai , Chaoran Guo , Yong Wang , Zhida Sun , Junjie Li

This paper addresses the challenges in representation learning of 3D shape features by investigating state-of-the-art backbones paired with both contrastive supervised and self-supervised learning objectives. Computer vision methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Márcus Vinícius Lobo Costa , Sherlon Almeida da Silva , Bárbara Caroline Benato , Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

Deep neural networks used in computer vision have been shown to exhibit many social biases such as gender bias. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision applications, outperforming Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Abhishek Mandal , Susan Leavy , Suzanne Little

Visual illusions teach us that what we see is not always what it is represented in the physical world. Its special nature make them a fascinating tool to test and validate any new vision model proposed. In general, current vision models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Alexander Gomez-Villa , Adrián Martín , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmío

When seeing a new object, humans can immediately recognize it across different retinal locations: the internal object representation is invariant to translation. It is commonly believed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Valerio Biscione , Jeffrey S. Bowers

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

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

The training of vision transformer (ViT) networks on small-scale datasets poses a significant challenge. By contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have an architectural inductive bias enabling them to perform well on such problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently garnered considerable attention, emerging as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision-related applications. However, their large model sizes and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dayou Du , Gu Gong , Xiaowen Chu

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

With the increasing popularity and the increasing size of vision transformers (ViTs), there has been an increasing interest in making them more efficient and less computationally costly for deployment on edge devices with limited computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Phuoc-Hoan Charles Le , Xinlin Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs), when pre-trained on large-scale data, provide general-purpose representations for diverse downstream tasks. However, artifacts in ViTs are widely observed across different supervision paradigms and downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Cheng Shi , Yizhou Yu , Sibei Yang