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Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Despite advances, video diffusion transformers still struggle to generalize beyond their training length, a challenge we term video length extrapolation. We identify two failure modes: model-specific periodic content repetition and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Min Zhao , Hongzhou Zhu , Yingze Wang , Bokai Yan , Jintao Zhang , Guande He , Ling Yang , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in 2D human pose estimation due to their strong global modeling capability. However, existing ViT-based pose estimators are designed for static images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongwei Fang , Jiahang Cai , Xun Wang , Wenwu Yang

Transformers have recently gained significant attention in the computer vision community. However, the lack of scalability of self-attention mechanisms with respect to image size has limited their wide adoption in state-of-the-art vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zhengzhong Tu , Hossein Talebi , Han Zhang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar , Alan Bovik , Yinxiao Li

Vision transformers have become one of the most important models for computer vision tasks. Although they outperform prior works, they require heavy computational resources on a scale that is quadratic to the number of tokens, $N$. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jeonggeun Song , Heung-Chang Lee

The Vision Transformer (ViT) excels in accuracy when handling high-resolution images, yet it confronts the challenge of significant spatial redundancy, leading to increased computational and memory requirements. To address this, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Youbing Hu , Yun Cheng , Anqi Lu , Zhiqiang Cao , Dawei Wei , Jie Liu , Zhijun Li

Non-overlapping patch-wise convolution is the default image tokenizer for all state-of-the-art vision Transformer (ViT) models. Even though many ViT variants have been proposed to improve its efficiency and accuracy, little research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhenhai Zhu , Radu Soricut

We propose a communication-efficient collaborative inference framework in the domain of edge inference, focusing on the efficient use of vision transformer (ViT) models. The partitioning strategy of conventional collaborative inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Jiwoong Im , Nayoung Kwon , Taewoo Park , Jiheon Woo , Jaeho Lee , Yongjune Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision, yet their self-attention mechanism lacks explicit spatial inductive biases, leading to suboptimal performance on spatially-structured tasks. Existing approaches introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as popular models in computer vision, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. This success typically follows a two-stage strategy involving pre-training on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zijun Long , Zaiqiao Meng , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Richard McCreadie

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly adopted in sensitive vision applications, there is a growing demand for improved interpretability. This has led to efforts to forward-align these models with carefully annotated abstract,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

This paper introduces ConvShareViT, a novel deep learning architecture that adapts Vision Transformers (ViTs) to the 4f free-space optical system. ConvShareViT replaces linear layers in multi-head self-attention (MHSA) and Multilayer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Riad Ibadulla , Thomas M. Chen , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

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

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

This paper presents 6D-ViT, a transformer-based instance representation learning network, which is suitable for highly accurate category-level object pose estimation on RGB-D images. Specifically, a novel two-stream encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Lu Zou , Zhangjin Huang , Naijie Gu , Guoping Wang

This study examines various feature extraction techniques in computer vision, the primary focus of which is on Vision Transformers (ViTs) and other approaches such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), deep feature models, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Venant Niyonkuru , Sylla Sekou , Jimmy Jackson Sinzinkayo

In recent years, increasingly large models have achieved outstanding performance across CV tasks. However, these models demand substantial computational resources and storage, and their growing complexity limits our understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Carlos Boned Riera , David Romero Sanchez , Oriol Ramos Terrades

This work presents a simple vision transformer design as a strong baseline for object localization and instance segmentation tasks. Transformers recently demonstrate competitive performance in image classification tasks. To adopt ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Wuyang Chen , Xianzhi Du , Fan Yang , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Huizhong Chen , Jing Li , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang