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This paper proposes Omnidirectional Representations from Transformers (OmniNet). In OmniNet, instead of maintaining a strictly horizontal receptive field, each token is allowed to attend to all tokens in the entire network. This process can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yi Tay , Mostafa Dehghani , Vamsi Aribandi , Jai Gupta , Philip Pham , Zhen Qin , Dara Bahri , Da-Cheng Juan , Donald Metzler

Local Transformer-based classification models have recently achieved promising results with relatively low computational costs. However, the effect of aggregating spatial global information of local Transformer-based architecture is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Krushi Patel , Andres M. Bur , Fengjun Li , Guanghui Wang

Transformer has recently gained considerable popularity in low-level vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). These networks utilize self-attention along different dimensions, spatial or channel, and achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang , Fisher Yu

Lightweight super resolution networks have extremely importance for real-world applications. In recent years several SR deep learning approaches with outstanding achievement have been introduced by sacrificing memory and computational cost.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Armin Mehri , Parichehr B. Ardakani , Angel D. Sappa

Transformers have demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). The quadratic computational complexity of window self-attention mechanisms in many transformer-based SR methods forces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fayaz Ali , Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Radu Timofte

Recently, video transformers have shown great success in video understanding, exceeding CNN performance; yet existing video transformer models do not explicitly model objects, although objects can be essential for recognizing actions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Roei Herzig , Elad Ben-Avraham , Karttikeya Mangalam , Amir Bar , Gal Chechik , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson

This paper introduces a lightweight image super-resolution (SR) network, termed the Multi-scale Spatial Adaptive Attention Network (MSAAN), to address the common dilemma between high reconstruction fidelity and low model complexity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sushi Rao , Jingwei Li

Transformer-based approaches have revolutionized image super-resolution by modeling long-range dependencies. However, the quadratic computational complexity of vanilla self-attention mechanisms poses significant challenges, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dinh Phu Tran , Thao Do , Saad Wazir , Seongah Kim , Seon Kwon Kim , Daeyoung Kim

While models derived from Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been phonemically surging, pre-trained models cannot seamlessly adapt to arbitrary resolution images without altering the architecture and configuration, such as sampling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Song Zhang , Qingzhong Wang , Jiang Bian , Haoyi Xiong

This work aims at designing a lightweight convolutional neural network for image super resolution (SR). With simplicity bare in mind, we construct a pretty concise and effective network with a newly proposed pixel attention scheme. Pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Hengyuan Zhao , Xiangtao Kong , Jingwen He , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained increasing attention in the computer vision community in recent years. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and bears a quadratic computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Recent progress in single-image super-resolution (SISR) has achieved remarkable performance, yet the computational costs of these methods remain a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices. In particular, transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Junpeng Jiang , Xianming Liu

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully adopted to solve the ill-posed single image super-resolution (SISR) problem. A commonly used strategy to boost the performance of CNN-based SISR models is deploying very…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Du Chen , Zewei He , Yanpeng Cao , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Michael Ying Yang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Transformer architectures have exhibited remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR). Since the quadratic computational complexity of the self-attention (SA) in Transformer, existing methods tend to adopt SA in a local region to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, but its high computational demands make it impractical for edge devices with limited resources. This paper presents MicroViT, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Novendra Setyawan , Chi-Chia Sun , Mao-Hsiu Hsu , Wen-Kai Kuo , Jun-Wei Hsieh

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

Single image super-resolution is a well-known downstream task which aims to restore low-resolution images into high-resolution images. At present, models based on Transformers have shone brightly in the field of super-resolution due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jianfeng Wu , Nannan Xu

Generative models for Image Super-Resolution (SR) are increasingly powerful, yet their reliance on self-attention's quadratic complexity (O(N^2)) creates a major computational bottleneck. Linear Attention offers an O(N) solution, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaohui Li , Shaobin Zhuang , Shuo Cao , Yang Yang , Yuandong Pu , Qi Qin , Siqi Luo , Bin Fu , Yihao Liu

Recent Vision Transformer (ViT)-based methods for Image Super-Resolution have demonstrated impressive performance. However, they suffer from significant complexity, resulting in high inference times and memory usage. Additionally, ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jeongsoo Kim , Jongho Nang , Junsuk Choe

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently demonstrated promise in computer vision problems. However, unlike Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), it is known that the performance of ViT saturates quickly with depth increasing, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Peihao Wang , Wenqing Zheng , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang