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Image restoration is a long-standing low-level vision problem that aims to restore high-quality images from low-quality images (e.g., downscaled, noisy and compressed images). While state-of-the-art image restoration methods are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Guolei Sun , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

In recent years, Vision Transformers have attracted increasing interest from computer vision researchers. However, the advantage of these transformers over CNNs is only fully manifested when trained over a large dataset, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

Transformer architectures have achieved state-of-the-art performance across natural language tasks, yet they fundamentally misrepresent the hierarchical nature of human language by processing text as flat token sequences. This results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ayan Sar , Sampurna Roy , Kanav Gupta , Anurag Kaushish , Tanupriya Choudhury , Abhijit Kumar

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and their multi-scale and hierarchical variations have been successful at capturing image representations but their use has been generally studied for low-resolution images (e.g. - 256x256, 384384). For gigapixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Richard J. Chen , Chengkuan Chen , Yicong Li , Tiffany Y. Chen , Andrew D. Trister , Rahul G. Krishnan , Faisal Mahmood

Recent advancements in Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) using deep learning have significantly improved image restoration quality. However, the high computational cost of processing high-resolution images due to the large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Siddhant Dutta , Nouhaila Innan , Khadijeh Najafi , Sadok Ben Yahia , Muhammad Shafique

Recently, Transformer-based methods have achieved impressive results in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, the lack of locality mechanism and high complexity limit their application in the field of super-resolution (SR). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ling Zheng , Jinchen Zhu , Jinpeng Shi , Shizhuang Weng

Transformers have demonstrated great potential in computer vision tasks. To avoid dense computations of self-attentions in high-resolution visual data, some recent Transformer models adopt a hierarchical design, where self-attentions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jinpeng Li , Yichao Yan , Shengcai Liao , Xiaokang Yang , Ling Shao

The hybrid deep models of Vision Transformer (ViT) and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) have emerged as a powerful class of backbones for vision tasks. Scaling up the input resolution of such hybrid backbones naturally strengthes model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei

This paper tackles the high computational/space complexity associated with Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) in vanilla vision transformers. To this end, we propose Hierarchical MHSA (H-MHSA), a novel approach that computes self-attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yun Liu , Yu-Huan Wu , Guolei Sun , Le Zhang , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Accurate medical image segmentation requires both long-range contextual reasoning and precise boundary delineation, a task where existing transformer- and diffusion-based paradigms are frequently bottlenecked by quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ahmed Marouane Djouama , Abir Belaala , Abdellah Zakaria Sellam , Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Cosimo Distante , Abdenour Hadid

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful architecture in the realm of modern computer vision. However, its application in certain imaging fields, such as microscopy and satellite imaging, presents unique challenges. In these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yujia Bao , Srinivasan Sivanandan , Theofanis Karaletsos

Fine-tuning pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) has showcased significant promise in enhancing visual recognition tasks. Yet, the demand for individualized and comprehensive fine-tuning processes for each task entails substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weifeng Lin , Ziheng Wu , Wentao Yang , Mingxin Huang , Jun Huang , Lianwen Jin

Deep learning-based methods have been extensively explored for automatic building mapping from high-resolution remote sensing images over recent years. While most building mapping models produce vector polygons of buildings for geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mingming Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, leveraging powerful pre trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) backends, have shown promise in robotic control due to their impressive generalization ability. However, the success comes at a cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jianke Zhang , Yanjiang Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Yen-Jen Wang , Yucheng Hu , Chengming Shi , Jianyu Chen

Visual transformers have achieved remarkable performance in image classification tasks, but this performance gain has come at the cost of interpretability. One of the main obstacles to the interpretation of transformers is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Guillaume Jeanneret , Loïc Simon , Frédéric Jurie

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

We design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the benefits of fast local representation learning in CNNs and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ali Hatamizadeh , Greg Heinrich , Hongxu Yin , Andrew Tao , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Multi-scale design has been considered in recent image super-resolution (SR) works to explore the hierarchical feature information. Existing multi-scale networks aim to build elaborate blocks or progressive architecture for restoration. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Yuqing Liu , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao