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Transformer models have recently attracted much interest from computer vision researchers and have since been successfully employed for several problems traditionally addressed with convolutional neural networks. At the same time, image…

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Time series analysis faces significant challenges in handling variable-length data and achieving robust generalization. While Transformer-based models have advanced time series tasks, they often struggle with feature redundancy and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kai Zhang , Siming Sun , Zhengyu Fan , Qinmin Yang , Xuejun Jiang

Neural networks for visual content understanding have recently evolved from convolutional ones (CNNs) to transformers. The prior (CNN) relies on small-windowed kernels to capture the regional clues, demonstrating solid local expressiveness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zixuan Su , Hao Zhang , Jingjing Chen , Lei Pang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu-Gang Jiang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced deep learning, driving breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, medical diagnosis, object detection, and speech recognition. Architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Saddam Hussain Khan , Rashid Iqbal

While CNNs were long considered state of the art for image processing, the introduction of Transformer architectures has challenged this position. While achieving excellent results in image classification and segmentation, Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 DeShin Hwa , Tobias Holmes , Klaus Drechsler

Transformers have shown great potential in various computer vision tasks. By borrowing design concepts from transformers, many studies revolutionized CNNs and showed remarkable results. This paper falls in this line of studies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Ruihan Xu , Haokui Zhang , Wenze Hu , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Senthilkumar Kathiresan , Arnav Varma , Omar Magdy , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

The development of efficient segmentation strategies for medical images has evolved from its initial dependence on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to the current investigation of hybrid models that combine CNNs with Vision Transformers…

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Medical image segmentation, a critical application of semantic segmentation in healthcare, has seen significant advancements through specialized computer vision techniques. While deep learning-based medical image segmentation is essential…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated outstanding Compressed Sensing (CS) performance compared to traditional, hand-crafted methods. However, they are broadly limited in terms of generalisability, inductive bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

The recent success of Vision Transformers is shaking the long dominance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image recognition for a decade. Specifically, in terms of robustness on out-of-distribution samples, recent research finds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zeyu Wang , Yutong Bai , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Motivated by the success of data-driven convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in object recognition on static images, researchers are working hard towards developing CNN equivalents for learning video features. However, learning video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Zhenzhong Lan , Dezhong Yao , Ming Lin , Shoou-I Yu , Alexander Hauptmann

Transformer has shown great successes in natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. As one of its core components, the softmax attention helps to capture long-range dependencies yet prohibits its scale-up due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zhen Qin , Weixuan Sun , Hui Deng , Dongxu Li , Yunshen Wei , Baohong Lv , Junjie Yan , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

Transfer learning is widely used for training machine learning models. Here, we study the role of transfer learning for training fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for medical image segmentation. Our experiments show that although transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Conformer has proven to be effective in many speech processing tasks. It combines the benefits of extracting local dependencies using convolutions and global dependencies using self-attention. Inspired by this, we propose a more flexible,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yifan Peng , Siddharth Dalmia , Ian Lane , Shinji Watanabe

In recent years, polyp segmentation has gained significant importance, and many methods have been developed using CNN, Vision Transformer, and Transformer techniques to achieve competitive results. However, these methods often face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Quoc-Huy Trinh

Nowadays most research in visual recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) follows the "deeper model with deeper confidence" belief to gain a higher recognition accuracy. At the same time, deeper model brings heavier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mohammad Farhadi , Mehdi Ghasemi , Yezhou Yang

Convolutional Neural Networks have played a significant role in various medical imaging tasks like classification and segmentation. They provide state-of-the-art performance compared to classical image processing algorithms. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Rakshith Sathish , Swanand Khare , Debdoot Sheet

Automatic image captioning, a multifaceted task bridging computer vision and natural language processing, aims to generate descriptive textual content from visual input. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amanuel Tafese Dufera

Transformer models rely on self-attention to capture token dependencies but face challenges in effectively integrating positional information while allowing multi-head attention (MHA) flexibility. Prior methods often model semantic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jintian Shao , Hongyi Huang , Jiayi Wu , Beiwen Zhang , ZhiYu Wu , You Shan , MingKai Zheng