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Vision transformers have achieved great successes in many computer vision tasks. Most methods generate vision tokens by splitting an image into a regular and fixed grid and treating each cell as a token. However, not all regions are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ping Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

While transformers have shown great potential on video recognition with their strong capability of capturing long-range dependencies, they often suffer high computational costs induced by the self-attention to the huge number of 3D tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuxuan Liang , Pan Zhou , Roger Zimmermann , Shuicheng Yan

Learning from limited data is challenging because data scarcity leads to a poor generalization of the trained model. A classical global pooled representation will probably lose useful local information. Many few-shot learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Visual place recognition is a fundamental capability for the localization of mobile robots. It places image retrieval in the practical context of physical agents operating in a physical world. It is an active field of research and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert

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

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved excellent performance on vision tasks by measuring the global self-attention among the image patches. Given $n$ patches, they will have quadratic complexity such as $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiquan Shan , Junxiao Wang , Lifeng Zhao , Liang Cai , Hongyuan Zhang , Ioannis Liritzis

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Visual place recognition (VPR) is typically regarded as a specific image retrieval task, whose core lies in representing images as global descriptors. Over the past decade, dominant VPR methods (e.g., NetVLAD) have followed a paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Feng Lu , Tong Jin , Canming Ye , Yunpeng Liu , Xiangyuan Lan , Chun Yuan

Vision Transformers have achieved great success in computer visions, delivering exceptional performance across various tasks. However, their inherent reliance on sequential input enforces the manual partitioning of images into patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Changzhen Li , Jie Zhang , Yang Wei , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Shiguang Shan

The classification of gigapixel histopathology images with deep multiple instance learning models has become a critical task in digital pathology and precision medicine. In this work, we propose a Transformer-based multiple instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Josef Cersovsky , Sadegh Mohammadi , Dagmar Kainmueller , Johannes Hoehne

Visual place recognition (VPR) aims to determine the general geographical location of a query image by retrieving visually similar images from a large geo-tagged database. To obtain a global representation for each place image, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tong Jin , Feng Lu , Shuyu Hu , Chun Yuan , Yunpeng Liu

Visual manipulation localization (VML) aims to identify tampered regions in images and videos, a task that has become increasingly challenging with the rise of advanced editing tools. Existing methods face two main issues: resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Wen Huang , Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Jiawei Li , Shaoxiong Zhan , Bin Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

The place recognition problem comprises two distinct subproblems; recognizing a specific location in the world ("specific" or "ordinary" place recognition) and recognizing the type of place (place categorization). Both are important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Sourav Garg , Adam Jacobson , Swagat Kumar , Michael Milford

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

Fully supervised change detection methods have achieved significant advancements in performance, yet they depend severely on acquiring costly pixel-level labels. Considering that the patch-level annotations also contain abundant information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zhenglai Li , Chang Tang , Xinwang Liu , Changdong Li , Xianju Li , Wei Zhang

Visual place recognition is the task of recognizing a place depicted in an image based on its pure visual appearance without metadata. In visual place recognition, the challenges lie upon not only the changes in lighting conditions, camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Duc Canh Le , Chan Hyun Youn

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

Visual place recognition methods struggle with occlusions and partial visual overlaps. We propose a novel visual place recognition approach based on overlap prediction, called VOP, shifting from traditional reliance on global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tong Wei , Philipp Lindenberger , Jiri Matas , Daniel Barath

While the Transformer architecture has become ubiquitous in the machine learning field, its adaptation to 3D shape recognition is non-trivial. Due to its quadratic computational complexity, the self-attention operator quickly becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Axel Berg , Magnus Oskarsson , Mark O'Connor