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Change detection in remote sensing images is essential for tracking environmental changes on the Earth's surface. Despite the success of vision transformers (ViTs) as backbones in numerous computer vision applications, they remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Duowang Zhu , Xiaohu Huang , Haiyan Huang , Zhenfeng Shao , Qimin Cheng

Vision Transformers rely on positional embeddings and class tokens encoding fixed spatial priors. While effective for natural images, these priors may be suboptimal when spatial layout is weakly informative, a frequent condition in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Athanasios Angelakis

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a variety of vision tasks, replacing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Meanwhile, since ViT has a different architecture than CNN, it may behave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Dong Gu Lee , Wonseok Jeong , Sang Woo Kim

Incorporating symmetry priors as inductive biases to design equivariant Vision Transformers (ViTs) has emerged as a promising avenue for enhancing their performance. However, existing equivariant ViTs often struggle to balance performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently demonstrated promise in computer vision problems. However, unlike Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), it is known that the performance of ViT saturates quickly with depth increasing, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Peihao Wang , Wenqing Zheng , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Simulation offers a scalable and efficient alternative to real-world data collection for learning visuomotor robotic policies. However, the simulation-to-reality, or Sim2Real distribution shift -- introduced by employing simulation-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yash Yardi , Samuel Biruduganti , Lars Ankile

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

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

With the increasing popularity and the increasing size of vision transformers (ViTs), there has been an increasing interest in making them more efficient and less computationally costly for deployment on edge devices with limited computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Phuoc-Hoan Charles Le , Xinlin Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

While recent face anti-spoofing methods perform well under the intra-domain setups, an effective approach needs to account for much larger appearance variations of images acquired in complex scenes with different sensors for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Hsin-Ping Huang , Deqing Sun , Yaojie Liu , Wen-Sheng Chu , Taihong Xiao , Jinwei Yuan , Hartwig Adam , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have swept through visual learning leaderboards and offer state-of-the-art accuracy in tasks such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation by attending to different parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eric Youn , Sai Mitheran J , Sanjana Prabhu , Siyuan Chen

Operator learning, which aims to approximate maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces, is an important area in scientific machine learning with applications across various physical domains. Here we introduce the Continuous Vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sifan Wang , Jacob H Seidman , Shyam Sankaran , Hanwen Wang , George J. Pappas , Paris Perdikaris

The transformer models have shown promising effectiveness in dealing with various vision tasks. However, compared with training Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, training Vision Transformer (ViT) models is more difficult and relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jiawang Bai , Li Yuan , Shu-Tao Xia , Shuicheng Yan , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models built upon Chain-of-Thought (CoT) have achieved remarkable success in advancing general-purpose robotic agents, owing to its significant perceptual comprehension. Recently, since text-only CoT struggles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiangkai Ma , Lekai Xing , Han Zhang , Wenzhong Li , Sanglu Lu

Vision transformers (ViTs) - especially feature foundation models like DINOv2 - learn rich representations useful for many downstream tasks. However, architectural choices (such as positional encoding) can lead to these models displaying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Moritz Pawlowsky , Antonis Vamvakeros , Alexander Weiss , Anja Bielefeld , Samuel J. Cooper , Ronan Docherty

The integration of Large Language Model (LLMs) blocks with Vision Transformers (ViTs) holds immense promise for vision-only tasks by leveraging the rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, a fundamental challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Selim Kuzucu , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Anna Kukleva , Federico Tombari , Bernt Schiele

Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Quan Kong , Yanru Xiao , Yuhao Shen , Cong Wang

This study explored whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) developed orientation and color biases similar to those observed in the human brain. Using synthetic datasets with controlled variations in noise levels, angles, lengths, widths, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nooshin Bahador

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer the knowledge learnt from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous work is mainly built upon convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn domain-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jinyu Yang , Jingjing Liu , Ning Xu , Junzhou Huang