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The application of deep learning-based architecture has seen a tremendous rise in recent years. For example, medical image classification using deep learning achieved breakthrough results. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are…

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Transformer has achieved impressive successes for various computer vision tasks. However, most of existing studies require to pretrain the Transformer backbone on a large-scale labeled dataset (e.g., ImageNet) for achieving satisfactory…

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Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Remarkable progress has been made in image recognition, primarily due to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets and the revival of deep CNN. CNNs enable learning data-driven, highly representative, layered hierarchical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Hoo-Chang Shin , Holger R. Roth , Mingchen Gao , Le Lu , Ziyue Xu , Isabella Nogues , Jianhua Yao , Daniel Mollura , Ronald M. Summers

Transformers, which are popular for language modeling, have been explored for solving vision tasks recently, e.g., the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. The ViT model splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Li Yuan , Yunpeng Chen , Tao Wang , Weihao Yu , Yujun Shi , Zihang Jiang , Francis EH Tay , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Deep models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformer (ViT), demonstrate remarkable performance in image classification. However, those deep models require large data to fine-tune, which is impractical in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yihang Wu , Muhammad Owais , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad

The "Roaring 20s" of visual recognition began with the introduction of Vision Transformers (ViTs), which quickly superseded ConvNets as the state-of-the-art image classification model. A vanilla ViT, on the other hand, faces difficulties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Zhuang Liu , Hanzi Mao , Chao-Yuan Wu , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Trevor Darrell , Saining Xie

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks whose computational blocks use convolution, together with other linear and non-linear operations, to perform classification or regression. This paper explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Victor Stamatescu , Mark D. McDonnell

Image representations, from SIFT and bag of visual words to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a crucial component of almost all computer vision systems. However, our understanding of them remains limited. In this paper we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Aravindh Mahendran , Andrea Vedaldi

Image segmentation, a key task in computer vision, has traditionally relied on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), yet these models struggle with capturing complex spatial dependencies, objects with varying scales, need for manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Deepjyoti Chetia , Debasish Dutta , Sanjib Kr Kalita

Tokens or patches within Vision Transformers (ViT) lack essential semantic information, unlike their counterparts in natural language processing (NLP). Typically, ViT tokens are associated with rectangular image patches that lack specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Young Kyung Kim , J. Matías Di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haiping Wu , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Mengchen Liu , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang

The Transformer architecture has achieved significant success in natural language processing, motivating its adaptation to computer vision tasks. Unlike convolutional neural networks, vision transformers inherently capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zherui Zhang , Rongtao Xu , Jie Zhou , Changwei Wang , Xingtian Pei , Wenhao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Li Guo , Longxiang Gao , Wenbo Xu , Shibiao Xu

Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-of-the-art advancement of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gaby Maroun , Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Fadi Dornaika

Although using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as backbones achieves great successes in computer vision, this work investigates a simple backbone network useful for many dense prediction tasks without convolutions. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Wenhai Wang , Enze Xie , Xiang Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Kaitao Song , Ding Liang , Tong Lu , Ping Luo , Ling Shao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) are two dominant models for image analysis. While CNNs excel at extracting multi-scale features and ViTs effectively capture global dependencies, both suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shicheng Yin , Kaixuan Yin , Weixing Chen , Enbo Huang , Yang Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited strong performance in medical image segmentation tasks by capturing high-level (local) information, such as edges and textures. However, due to the limited field of view of convolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

In the field of medical imaging, the advent of deep learning, especially the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has revolutionized the analysis and interpretation of medical images. Nevertheless, deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Amal Youssef , Yalin Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently become the state-of-the-art across many computer vision tasks. In contrast to convolutional networks (CNNs), ViTs enable global information sharing even within shallow layers of a network, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jongwoo Park , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Donghyun Kim , Shivchander Sudalairaj , Quanfu Fan , Michael S. Ryoo