English
Related papers

Related papers: A Close Look at Spatial Modeling: From Attention t…

200 papers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, their emphasis on global context often comes at the expense of local feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Puskal Khadka , Rodrigue Rizk , Longwei Wang , KC Santosh

Despite the rapid evolution of training paradigms, the decoder backbone of large vision--language models (LVLMs) remains fundamentally rooted in the residual-connection Transformer architecture. Therefore, deciphering the distinct roles of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gongli Xi , Ye Tian , Mengyu Yang , Huahui Yi , Liang Lin , Xiaoshuai Hao , Kun Wang , Wendong Wang

Convolutional Neural networks (CNN) have been the first choice of paradigm in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness which is it only operates on a local neighborhood of pixels, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michael Yang

The vanilla self-attention mechanism inherently relies on pre-defined and steadfast computational dimensions. Such inflexibility restricts it from possessing context-oriented generalization that can bring more contextual cues and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Rui Yang , Hailong Ma , Jie Wu , Yansong Tang , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Xiu Li

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful models that have achieved excellent performance on difficult computer vision tasks. Although CNNs perform well whenever large labeled training samples are available, they work badly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Zhouyong Liu , Shun Luo , Wubin Li , Jingben Lu , Yufan Wu , Shilei Sun , Chunguo Li , Luxi Yang

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…

Vision transformers have attracted much attention from computer vision researchers as they are not restricted to the spatial inductive bias of ConvNets. However, although Transformer-based backbones have achieved much progress on ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

Attention plays a critical role in human visual experience. Furthermore, it has recently been demonstrated that attention can also play an important role in the context of applying artificial neural networks to a variety of tasks from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

In this paper, we tackle the high computational overhead of Transformers for efficient image super-resolution~(SR). Motivated by the observations of self-attention's inter-layer repetition, we introduce a convolutionized self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

Since their emergence, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made significant strides in medical image analysis. However, the local nature of the convolution operator may pose a limitation for capturing global and long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Abdul Rehman Khan , Asifullah Khan

Recently, Transformer networks have achieved impressive results on a variety of vision tasks. However, most of them are computationally expensive and not suitable for real-world mobile applications. In this work, we present Mobile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Hailong Ma , Xin Xia , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Jiashi Li , Min Zheng

Vision transformers have shown great success due to their high model capabilities. However, their remarkable performance is accompanied by heavy computation costs, which makes them unsuitable for real-time applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Xinyu Liu , Houwen Peng , Ningxin Zheng , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Yixuan Yuan

Vision Transformers have witnessed prevailing success in a series of vision tasks. However, these Transformers often rely on extensive computational costs to achieve high performance, which is burdensome to deploy on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wei Li , Xing Wang , Xin Xia , Jie Wu , Jiashi Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Shiping Wen

Window-based transformers have demonstrated outstanding performance in super-resolution tasks due to their adaptive modeling capabilities through local self-attention (SA). However, they exhibit higher computational complexity and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

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

For state-of-the-art image understanding, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture but their processing diverges substantially from human attentional characteristics. We investigate whether this cognitive gap can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ethan Knights

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

We introduce PointConvFormer, a novel building block for point cloud based deep network architectures. Inspired by generalization theory, PointConvFormer combines ideas from point convolution, where filter weights are only based on relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenxuan Wu , Li Fuxin , Qi Shan

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes often lead to deviations in the perception of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruotong Wang , Yanqing Shen , Weiliang Zuo , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

Pretrained vision foundation models deliver strong performance across tasks with limited fine-tuning. However, their Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones impose high inference costs, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Carmelo Scribano , Mohammad Mahdi , Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Yuqian Fu , Giorgia Franchini , Danda Pani Paudel , Marko Bertogna , Luc Van Gool