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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian

Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiangyang Ji

Vision transformers (ViTs) achieve remarkable performance on large datasets, but tend to perform worse than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when trained from scratch on smaller datasets, possibly due to a lack of local inductive bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Senthilkumar S. Kathiresan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

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

Slow inference speed is one of the most crucial concerns for deploying multi-view 3D detectors to tasks with high real-time requirements like autonomous driving. Although many sparse query-based methods have already attempted to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dingyuan Zhang , Dingkang Liang , Zichang Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Cheng Zhang , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

Large pretrained plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have been the workhorse for many downstream tasks. However, existing works utilizing off-the-shelf ViTs are inefficient in terms of training and deployment, because adopting ViTs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zizheng Pan , Jing Liu , Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Bohan Zhuang

This work presents a simple vision transformer design as a strong baseline for object localization and instance segmentation tasks. Transformers recently demonstrate competitive performance in image classification tasks. To adopt ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Wuyang Chen , Xianzhi Du , Fan Yang , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Huizhong Chen , Jing Li , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Video transformers have achieved impressive results on major video recognition benchmarks, which however suffer from high computational cost. In this paper, we present STTS, a token selection framework that dynamically selects a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Junke Wang , Xitong Yang , Hengduo Li , Li Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Although vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great success in computer vision, the heavy computational cost hampers their applications to dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation on mobile devices. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenqiang Zhang , Zilong Huang , Guozhong Luo , Tao Chen , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen

Transformers are widely used in computer vision areas and have achieved remarkable success. Most state-of-the-art approaches split images into regular grids and represent each grid region with a vision token. However, fixed token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Lumin Xu , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Wanli Ouyang , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures are becoming increasingly popular and widely employed to tackle computer vision applications. Their main feature is the capacity to extract global information through the self-attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini , Luping Zhou

Vision transformers have been widely explored in various vision tasks. Due to heavy computational cost, much interest has aroused for compressing vision transformer dynamically in the aspect of tokens. Current methods mainly pay attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fanhu Zeng , Deli Yu , Zhenglun Kong , Hao Tang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) enable strong multi-view 3D detection but are limited by high inference latency from dense token and query processing across multiple views and large 3D regions. Existing sparsity methods, designed mainly for 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sandro Papais , Lezhou Feng , Charles Cossette , Lingting Ge

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

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

We revisit the existing excellent Transformers from the perspective of practical application. Most of them are not even as efficient as the basic ResNets series and deviate from the realistic deployment scenario. It may be due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xin Xia , Jiashi Li , Jie Wu , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Rui Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dhruv Parikh , Shouyi Li , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Carl Busart , Viktor Prasanna

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely successful in 2D human pose estimation, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising alternative to CNNs, boosting state-of-the-art performance. However, the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kaleab A. Kinfu , Rene Vidal

Recently, vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have achieved promising performances in various computer vision tasks. Yet the high computational costs and training data requirements of ViTs limit their application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

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