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This paper presents a novel framework for processing volumetric medical information using Visual Transformers (ViTs). First, We extend the state-of-the-art Swin Transformer model to the 3D medical domain. Second, we propose a new approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Cristhian Forigua , Maria Escobar , Pablo Arbelaez

Local feature matching between images remains a challenging task, especially in the presence of significant appearance variations, e.g., extreme viewpoint changes. In this work, we propose DeepMatcher, a deep Transformer-based network built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Tao Xie , Kun Dai , Ke Wang , Ruifeng Li , Lijun Zhao

It is well believed that Transformer performs better in semantic segmentation compared to convolutional neural networks. Nevertheless, the original Vision Transformer may lack of inductive biases of local neighborhoods and possess a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wentao Shi , Jing Xu , Pan Gao

We attempt to reduce the computational costs in vision transformers (ViTs), which increase quadratically in the token number. We present a novel training paradigm that trains only one ViT model at a time, but is capable of providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingbao Lin , Mengzhao Chen , Yuxin Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Rongrong Ji , Liujuan Cao

We present a High-Resolution Transformer (HRFormer) that learns high-resolution representations for dense prediction tasks, in contrast to the original Vision Transformer that produces low-resolution representations and has high memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yuhui Yuan , Rao Fu , Lang Huang , Weihong Lin , Chao Zhang , Xilin Chen , Jingdong Wang

Recent self-supervised models have demonstrated equal or better performance than supervised methods, opening for AI systems to learn visual representations from practically unlimited data. However, these methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Robin Karlsson , Tomoki Hayashi , Keisuke Fujii , Alexander Carballo , Kento Ohtani , Kazuya Takeda

It is a challenging task to learn discriminative representation from images and videos, due to large local redundancy and complex global dependency in these visual data. Convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Junhao Zhang , Peng Gao , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Superpixel-based image classification has traditionally leveraged graph neural networks (GNNs) for processing irregular image representations. Recent advances in computer vision, driven by Vision Transformers (ViTs), have introduced new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pedro Henrique da Costa Avelar , Anderson R. Tavares , Luís C. Lamb

In recent years, Transformers have achieved remarkable progress in computer vision tasks. However, their global modeling often comes with substantial computational overhead, in stark contrast to the human eye's efficient information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yuguang Zhang , Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang

Superpixels are widely used in computer vision to simplify image representation and reduce computational complexity. While traditional methods rely on low-level features, deep learning-based approaches leverage high-level features but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Julien Walther , Rémi Giraud , Michaël Clément

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

Human visual recognition is a sparse process, where only a few salient visual cues are attended to rather than traversing every detail uniformly. However, most current vision networks follow a dense paradigm, processing every single visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ziteng Gao , Zhan Tong , Limin Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Visual place recognition is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, and autonomous robotics and vehicles, which aims to identify a location or a place from visual inputs. Contemporary methods in visual place recognition employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

Deep learning vision models are typically tailored for specific modalities and often rely on domain-specific assumptions, such as the grid structures used by nearly all existing vision models. In this work, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mahmoud Khalil , Ahmad Khalil , Alioune Ngom

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 Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional counterparts, our experiments find that ViTs trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chengzhi Mao , Lu Jiang , Mostafa Dehghani , Carl Vondrick , Rahul Sukthankar , Irfan Essa

Transformers have recently gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, existing studies mostly use Transformers for feature representation learning, e.g. for image classification and dense predictions, and the generalizability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao

Semantic segmentation assigns labels to pixels in images, a critical yet challenging task in computer vision. Convolutional methods, although capturing local dependencies well, struggle with long-range relationships. Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

Transformer-based architectures have advanced medical image analysis by effectively modeling long-range dependencies, yet they often struggle in 3D settings due to substantial memory overhead and insufficient capture of fine-grained local…

This paper presents a novel approach, Spectral-Interpretable and -Enhanced Transformer (SIEFormer), which leverages spectral analysis to reinterpret the attention mechanism within Vision Transformer (ViT) and enhance feature adaptability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chunming Li , Shidong Wang , Tong Xin , Haofeng Zhang