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Pre-trained Vision Transformers now serve as powerful tools for computer vision. Yet, efficiently adapting them for multiple tasks remains a challenge that arises from the need to modify the rich hidden representations encoded by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Bruno Ribeiro , Chaim Baskin , Moshe Eliasof

Understanding the decision processes of deep vision models is essential for their safe and trustworthy deployment in real-world settings. Existing explainability approaches, such as saliency maps or concept-based analyses, often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Éloi Zablocki , Valentin Gerard , Amaia Cardiel , Eric Gaussier , Matthieu Cord , Eduardo Valle

In this paper, we leverage self-supervised vision transformer models and their emergent semantic abilities to improve the generalization abilities of imitation learning policies. We introduce DVK, an imitation learning algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wei-Di Chang , Francois Hogan , Scott Fujimoto , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Multimodal image matching seeks pixel-level correspondences between images of different modalities, crucial for cross-modal perception, fusion and analysis. However, the significant appearance differences between modalities make this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Meng Yang , Fan Fan , Zizhuo Li , Songchu Deng , Yong Ma , Jiayi Ma

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification, yet their attention mechanisms often remain opaque and exhibit dense, non-structured behaviors. In this work, we adapt our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance and demonstrated its promising potential in various computer vision tasks. The wide deployment of ViT in real-world tasks requires a thorough understanding of the societal impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowei Tian , Ruijie Du , Yanning Shen

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Existing COD methods primarily employ semantic segmentation, which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Fiducial markers have been broadly used to identify objects or embed messages that can be detected by a camera. Primarily, existing detection methods assume that markers are printed on ideally planar surfaces. Markers often fail to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mustafa B. Yaldiz , Andreas Meuleman , Hyeonjoong Jang , Hyunho Ha , Min H. Kim

This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel reconstruction loss on masked inputs, we minimize the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yutong Bai , Zeyu Wang , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Transformers have become prevalent in computer vision due to their performance and flexibility in modelling complex operations. Of particular significance is the 'cross-attention' operation, which allows a vector representation (e.g. of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various vision tasks. One reason behind the success lies in their ability to provide plausible innate explanations for the behavior of neural architectures. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lijie Hu , Yixin Liu , Ninghao Liu , Mengdi Huai , Lichao Sun , Di Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve strong performance in visual recognition, yet their decision-making remains difficult to interpret. We propose BiCAM, a bidirectional class activation mapping method that captures both supportive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qin Su , Tie Luo

Vision Transformers rely on fixed patch tokens that ignore the spatial and semantic structure of images. In this work, we introduce an end-to-end differentiable tokenizer that adapts to image content with pixel-level granularity while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Marius Aasan , Martine Hjelkrem-Tan , Nico Catalano , Changkyu Choi , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Masked diffusion models have recently emerged as a flexible framework for discrete generative modeling. However, a key limitation of standard masked diffusion is its inability to effectively capture dependencies among tokens that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yichi Zhang , Alex Schwing , Zhizhen Zhao

Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is crucial for analyzing their behavior and diagnosing failure cases. In computer vision, a common approach to improve interpretability is to assign importance to individual pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kagan Ozturk , Aman Bhatta , Haiyu Wu , Patrick Flynn , Kevin W. Bowyer

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

Holistic methods using CNNs and margin-based losses have dominated research on face recognition. In this work, we depart from this setting in two ways: (a) we employ the Vision Transformer as an architecture for training a very strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhonglin Sun , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become a dominant architecture in computer vision, yet their prediction process remains difficult to interpret because information is propagated through complex interactions across layers and attention heads.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sehyeong Jo , Gangjae Jang , Haesol Park