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The limited capacity for fine-grained visual perception presents a critical bottleneck for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world applications. Addressing this is challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality data and the limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Juntian Zhang , Song Jin , Chuanqi Cheng , Yuhan Liu , Yankai Lin , Xun Zhang , Yufei Zhang , Fei Jiang , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin , Rui Yan

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder architecture, has not only revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), but has also done some pioneering work in the field of computer vision (CV). Compared to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zujun Fu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved overwhelming success, yet they suffer from vulnerable resolution scalability, i.e., the performance drops drastically when presented with input resolutions that are unseen during training. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rui Tian , Zuxuan Wu , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Yu Qiao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

Transformers, a groundbreaking architecture proposed for Natural Language Processing (NLP), have also achieved remarkable success in Computer Vision. A cornerstone of their success lies in the attention mechanism, which models relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jaihyun Lew , Soohyuk Jang , Jaehoon Lee , Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Saehyung Lee , Jisoo Mok , Siwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but the huge computational cost is still a severe issue. Since the computation complexity of ViT is quadratic with respect to the input sequence length, a mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yifan Xu , Zhijie Zhang , Mengdan Zhang , Kekai Sheng , Ke Li , Weiming Dong , Liqing Zhang , Changsheng Xu , Xing Sun

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of many autonomous and augmented/virtual reality systems. It enables the systems to robustly localize themselves in large-scale environments. Existing VPR methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yuhang Ming , Minyang Xu , Xingrui Yang , Weicai Ye , Weihan Wang , Yong Peng , Weichen Dai , Wanzeng Kong

The success of deep learning in computer vision has been driven by models of increasing scale, from deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to large Vision Transformers (ViT). While effective, these architectures are parameter-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ange-Clément Akazan , Abdoulaye Koroko , Verlon Roel Mbingui , Choukouriyah Arinloye , Hassan Fifen , Rose Bandolo

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

Self-supervised pretrain techniques have been widely used to improve the downstream tasks' performance. However, real-world magnetic resonance (MR) studies usually consist of different sets of contrasts due to different acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Badhan Kumar Das , Ajay Singh , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have dominated and achieved state-of-the-art performances in a variety of medical imaging applications. However, the performances of ConvNets are still limited by lacking the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Junyu Chen , Yufan He , Eric C. Frey , Ye Li , Yong Du

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong performance across a range of computer vision tasks by modeling long-range spatial interactions via self-attention. However, channel-wise mixing in ViTs remains static, relying on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin

This paper tackles a significant challenge faced by Vision Transformers (ViTs): their constrained scalability across different image resolutions. Typically, ViTs experience a performance decline when processing resolutions different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qihang Fan , Quanzeng You , Xiaotian Han , Yongfei Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Conventional wisdom suggests that pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) improves downstream performance by learning useful representations. Is this actually true? We investigate this question and find that the features and representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Alexander C. Li , Yuandong Tian , Beidi Chen , Deepak Pathak , Xinlei Chen

Biomedical image classification requires capturing of bio-informatics based on specific feature distribution. In most of such applications, there are mainly challenges due to limited availability of samples for diseased cases and imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Vision Transformers (ViT) have emerged as the de-facto choice for numerous industry grade vision solutions. But their inference cost can be prohibitive for many settings, as they compute self-attention in each layer which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Rajat Koner , Gagan Jain , Prateek Jain , Volker Tresp , Sujoy Paul

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the fundamental architecture for most computer vision fields, but the considerable memory and computation costs hinders their application on resource-limited devices. As one of the most powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Qingyi Gu

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

Transformer, first applied to the field of natural language processing, is a type of deep neural network mainly based on the self-attention mechanism. Thanks to its strong representation capabilities, researchers are looking at ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Zhenhua Liu , Yehui Tang , An Xiao , Chunjing Xu , Yixing Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Yiman Zhang , Dacheng Tao

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze