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Large-scale vision foundation models have made significant progress in visual tasks on natural images, with vision transformers being the primary choice due to their good scalability and representation ability. However, large-scale models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Di Wang , Qiming Zhang , Yufei Xu , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

In this paper, we introduce the big.LITTLE Vision Transformer, an innovative architecture aimed at achieving efficient visual recognition. This dual-transformer system is composed of two distinct blocks: the big performance block,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 He Guo , Yulong Wang , Zixuan Ye , Jifeng Dai , Yuwen Xiong

We present an efficient approach for Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with hierarchical Vision Transformers (ViTs), allowing the hierarchical ViTs to discard masked patches and operate only on the visible ones. Our approach consists of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Nowadays, deep learning based methods have demonstrated impressive performance on ideal super-resolution (SR) datasets, but most of these methods incur dramatically performance drops when directly applied in real-world SR reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Minghao She , Wendong Mao , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

This paper investigates two techniques for developing efficient self-supervised vision transformers (EsViT) for visual representation learning. First, we show through a comprehensive empirical study that multi-stage architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chunyuan Li , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Mei Gao , Bin Xiao , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Vision-language modeling is rapidly increasing in popularity with an ever expanding list of available models. In most cases, these vision-language models have parameters in the tens of billions, which is necessary for some needs, but in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

The quadratic time and memory complexity of the attention mechanism in modern Transformer based video generators makes end-to-end training for ultra high resolution videos prohibitively expensive. Motivated by this limitation, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yunfeng Wu , Jiayi Song , Zhenxiong Tan , Zihao He , Songhua Liu

The Vision Transformer (ViT) leverages the Transformer's encoder to capture global information by dividing images into patches and achieves superior performance across various computer vision tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Tianxiao Zhang , Wenju Xu , Bo Luo , Guanghui Wang

We present Reversible Vision Transformers, a memory efficient architecture design for visual recognition. By decoupling the GPU memory requirement from the depth of the model, Reversible Vision Transformers enable scaling up architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Karttikeya Mangalam , Haoqi Fan , Yanghao Li , Chao-Yuan Wu , Bo Xiong , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Jitendra Malik

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful architecture in the realm of modern computer vision. However, its application in certain imaging fields, such as microscopy and satellite imaging, presents unique challenges. In these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yujia Bao , Srinivasan Sivanandan , Theofanis Karaletsos

Nowadays, distributed smart cameras are deployed for a wide set of tasks in several application scenarios, ranging from object recognition, image retrieval, and forensic applications. Due to limited bandwidth in distributed systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Ali Taalimi , Alireza Rahimpour , Liu Liu , Hairong Qi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, their emphasis on global context often comes at the expense of local feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Puskal Khadka , Rodrigue Rizk , Longwei Wang , KC Santosh

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

To address the high resolution of image pixels, the Swin Transformer introduces window attention. This mechanism divides an image into non-overlapping windows and restricts attention computation to within each window, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zhendong Zhang

The vision community is witnessing a modeling shift from CNNs to Transformers, where pure Transformer architectures have attained top accuracy on the major video recognition benchmarks. These video models are all built on Transformer layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ze Liu , Jia Ning , Yue Cao , Yixuan Wei , Zheng Zhang , Stephen Lin , Han Hu

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

Despite the tantalizing success in a broad of vision tasks, transformers have not yet demonstrated on-par ability as ConvNets in high-resolution image generative modeling. In this paper, we seek to explore using pure transformers to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bowen Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Bo Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Yong Wang , Baining Guo

Vision Transformers (ViT) have achieved remarkable success in large-scale image recognition. They split every 2D image into a fixed number of patches, each of which is treated as a token. Generally, representing an image with more tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yulin Wang , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Zeyi Huang , Gao Huang