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Vision transformers (ViT) have demonstrated impressive performance across various machine vision problems. These models are based on multi-head self-attention mechanisms that can flexibly attend to a sequence of image patches to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Facial analysis exhibits task-specific feature variations. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have enabled the fine-grained representation of spatial information, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have facilitated the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sunyong Seo , Semin Kim , Jongha Lee

Visual data compression is shifting from human-centered reconstruction to machine-oriented representation coding. In this setting, an image is often mapped to a compact semantic embedding, which is then compressed and transmitted for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Andriy Enttsel , Vincent Corlay

Interpretability is an important aspect of the trustworthiness of a model's predictions. Transformer's predictions are widely explained by the attention weights, i.e., a probability distribution generated at its self-attention unit (head).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Eduard Hovy

This paper proposes a method to modify traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into interpretable CNNs, in order to clarify knowledge representations in high conv-layers of CNNs. In an interpretable CNN, each filter in a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Quanshi Zhang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

We propose an end-to-end image compression and analysis model with Transformers, targeting to the cloud-based image classification application. Instead of placing an existing Transformer-based image classification model directly after an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yuanchao Bai , Xu Yang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Xiangyang Ji , Wen Gao

In this paper, we present Vision Permutator, a conceptually simple and data efficient MLP-like architecture for visual recognition. By realizing the importance of the positional information carried by 2D feature representations, unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Qibin Hou , Zihang Jiang , Li Yuan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Recent interpretability work on large language models (LLMs) has been increasingly dominated by a feature-discovery approach with the help of proxy modules. Then, the quality of features learned by, e.g., sparse auto-encoders (SAEs), is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mengyu Ye , Jun Suzuki , Tatsuro Inaba , Tatsuki Kuribayashi

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a significant area of focus, particularly for their capacity to be jointly trained with large language models and to serve as robust vision foundation models. Yet, the development of trustworthy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Hengyi Wang , Shiwei Tan , Hao Wang

In recent years, the scientific community has focused on the development of CAD tools that could improve bone fractures' classification, mostly based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, the discerning accuracy of fractures'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Leonardo Tanzi , Andrea Audisio , Giansalvo Cirrincione , Alessandro Aprato , Enrico Vezzetti

To tackle interpretability in deep learning, we present a novel framework to jointly learn a predictive model and its associated interpretation model. The interpreter provides both local and global interpretability about the predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jayneel Parekh , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

In this paper, we introduce MaeFuse, a novel autoencoder model designed for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion (IVIF). The existing approaches for image fusion often rely on training combined with downstream tasks to obtain highlevel visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiayang Li , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

The feature maps of vision encoders are fundamental to myriad modern AI tasks, ranging from core perception algorithms (e.g. semantic segmentation, object detection, depth perception, etc.) to modern multimodal understanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mike Ranzinger , Greg Heinrich , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro , Andrew Tao

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been successfully applied to most relevant tasks in the computer vision community. However, these networks are computationally demanding and not suitable for embedded devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Jose Alvarez , Lars Petersson

We describe a computational model of humans' ability to provide a detailed interpretation of components in a scene. Humans can identify in an image meaningful components almost everywhere, and identifying these components is an essential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Guy Ben-Yosef , Liav Assif , Daniel Harari , Shimon Ullman

In the context of human-in-the-loop Machine Learning applications, like Decision Support Systems, interpretability approaches should provide actionable insights without making the users wait. In this paper, we propose Accelerated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Mattia Carletti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

Dynamic attention mechanism and global modeling ability make Transformer show strong feature learning ability. In recent years, Transformer has become comparable to CNNs methods in computer vision. This review mainly investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Zhixi Feng , Xu Tang

(Renyi Qu's Master's Thesis) Recent advancements in interpretable models for vision-language tasks have achieved competitive performance; however, their interpretability often suffers due to the reliance on unstructured text outputs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Renyi Qu , Mark Yatskar

The past year has witnessed the rapid development of applying the Transformer module to vision problems. While some researchers have demonstrated that Transformer-based models enjoy a favorable ability of fitting data, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zhengsu Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian