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Modern machine learning models for computer vision exceed humans in accuracy on specific visual recognition tasks, notably on datasets like ImageNet. However, high accuracy can be achieved in many ways. The particular decision function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shikhar Tuli , Ishita Dasgupta , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are similar to "ordinary" neural networks in the sense that they are made up of hidden layers consisting of neurons with "learnable" parameters. These neurons receive inputs, performs a dot product, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Abien Fred Agarap

Transformer architectures have brought about fundamental changes to computational linguistic field, which had been dominated by recurrent neural networks for many years. Its success also implies drastic changes in cross-modal tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Andrew Shin , Masato Ishii , Takuya Narihira

The recent explosive interest on transformers has suggested their potential to become powerful "universal" models for computer vision tasks, such as classification, detection, and segmentation. While those attempts mainly study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yifan Jiang , Shiyu Chang , Zhangyang Wang

Until quite recently, the backbone of nearly every state-of-the-art computer vision model has been the 2D convolution. At its core, a 2D convolution simultaneously mixes information across both the spatial and channel dimensions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 George Cazenavette , Joel Julin , Simon Lucey

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

This survey explores the adaptation of visual transformer models in Autonomous Driving, a transition inspired by their success in Natural Language Processing. Surpassing traditional Recurrent Neural Networks in tasks like sequential image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Quoc-Vinh Lai-Dang

Reconstructing a 3D object from a 2D image is a well-researched vision problem, with many kinds of deep learning techniques having been tried. Most commonly, 3D convolutional approaches are used, though previous work has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rohan Agarwal , Wei Zhou , Xiaofeng Wu , Yuhan Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Convex functions and their gradients play a critical role in mathematical imaging, from proximal optimization to Optimal Transport. The successes of deep learning has led many to use learning-based methods, where fixed functions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Anne Gagneux , Mathurin Massias , Emmanuel Soubies , Rémi Gribonval

Vision transformers (ViTs) are usually considered to be less light-weight than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to the lack of inductive bias. Recent works thus resort to convolutions as a plug-and-play module and embed them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tao Huang , Lang Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

State-of-the-art deep reading comprehension models are dominated by recurrent neural nets. Their sequential nature is a natural fit for language, but it also precludes parallelization within an instances and often becomes the bottleneck for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Felix Wu , Ni Lao , John Blitzer , Guandao Yang , Kilian Weinberger

Neural networks have shown tremendous potential for reconstructing high-resolution images in inverse problems. The non-convex and opaque nature of neural networks, however, hinders their utility in sensitive applications such as medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Arda Sahiner , Morteza Mardani , Batu Ozturkler , Mert Pilanci , John Pauly

This paper introduces ConvShareViT, a novel deep learning architecture that adapts Vision Transformers (ViTs) to the 4f free-space optical system. ConvShareViT replaces linear layers in multi-head self-attention (MHSA) and Multilayer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Riad Ibadulla , Thomas M. Chen , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

There has been exploding interest in embracing Transformer-based architectures for medical image segmentation. However, the lack of large-scale annotated medical datasets make achieving performances equivalent to those in natural images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Constantin Ulrich , Michael Baumgartner , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jaeger , Klaus Maier-Hein

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on many Computer Vision Tasks. Unfortunately, deploying these large-scale ViTs is resource-consuming and impossible for many mobile devices. While most in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nahid Alam , Steven Kolawole , Simardeep Sethi , Nishant Bansali , Karina Nguyen

Convolutional networks are large linear systems divided into layers and connected by non-linear units. These units are the "articulations" that allow the network to adapt to the input. To understand how a network manages to solve a problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Pablo Navarrete Michelini , Hanwen Liu , Yunhua Lu , Xingqun Jiang

Vision Transformers, ViTs, have emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks, CNNs, in a variety of image-based tasks. While CNNs have previously been evaluated for their ability to perform graphical perception tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Poonam Poonam , Pere-Pau Vázquez , Timo Ropinski

Vision Transformer (ViT) attains state-of-the-art performance in visual recognition, and the variant, Local Vision Transformer, makes further improvements. The major component in Local Vision Transformer, local attention, performs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Qi Han , Zejia Fan , Qi Dai , Lei Sun , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiaying Liu , Jingdong Wang

We propose a new convolution called Dynamic Region-Aware Convolution (DRConv), which can automatically assign multiple filters to corresponding spatial regions where features have similar representation. In this way, DRConv outperforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jin Chen , Xijun Wang , Zichao Guo , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun