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Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated great potential in various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we introduce a ternary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Teli Ma , Bohan Zeng , Baochang Zhang , Peng Gao , Jinhu Lv

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a foundational model in computer vision, excelling in generalization and adaptation to downstream tasks. However, deploying ViTs to support diverse resource constraints typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chen Zhu , Wangbo Zhao , Huiwen Zhang , Samir Khaki , Yuhao Zhou , Weidong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Kai Wang , Dawei Yang

Transformers have recently gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, existing studies mostly use Transformers for feature representation learning, e.g. for image classification and dense predictions, and the generalizability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown remarkable performance and scalability across various computer vision tasks. To apply single-scale ViTs to image segmentation, existing methods adopt a convolutional adapter to generate multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tommie Kerssies , Niccolò Cavagnero , Alexander Hermans , Narges Norouzi , Giuseppe Averta , Bastian Leibe , Gijs Dubbelman , Daan de Geus

Attention mechanism has been widely believed as the key to success of vision transformers (ViTs), since it provides a flexible and powerful way to model spatial relationships. However, is the attention mechanism truly an indispensable part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Guangting Wang , Yucheng Zhao , Chuanxin Tang , Chong Luo , Wenjun Zeng

Recently, Transformers have emerged as the go-to architecture for both vision and language modeling tasks, but their computational efficiency is limited by the length of the input sequence. To address this, several efficient variants of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Hao Zheng , Jinbao Wang , Xiantong Zhen , Hong Chen , Jingkuan Song , Feng Zheng

Inspired by the tremendous success of the self-attention mechanism in natural language processing, the Vision Transformer (ViT) creatively applies it to image patch sequences and achieves incredible performance. However, the scaled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yanhong Fei , Yingjie Liu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

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) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

Multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful backbone for computer vision tasks, while the self-attention computation in Transformer scales quadratically w.r.t. the input patch number. Thus, existing solutions commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Chong-Wah Ngo , Tao Mei

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable results in object detection for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, owing to its exceptional ability to extract global features. However, it struggles with the extraction of multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yang Zhang , Jingyi Cao , Yanan You , Yuanyuan Qiao

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown rapid progress in computer vision tasks, achieving promising results on various benchmarks. However, due to the massive number of parameters and model design, \textit{e.g.}, attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yanyu Li , Geng Yuan , Yang Wen , Ju Hu , Georgios Evangelidis , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

We revisit the existing excellent Transformers from the perspective of practical application. Most of them are not even as efficient as the basic ResNets series and deviate from the realistic deployment scenario. It may be due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xin Xia , Jiashi Li , Jie Wu , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Min Zheng , Rui Wang

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

Though vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of settings, they exhibit surprising failures when performing tasks involving visual relations. This begs the question: how do ViTs attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael A. Lepori , Alexa R. Tartaglini , Wai Keen Vong , Thomas Serre , Brenden M. Lake , Ellie Pavlick

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanyu Li , Ju Hu , Yang Wen , Georgios Evangelidis , Kamyar Salahi , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiangyang Ji

The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ethan Huynh

Pretrain techniques, whether supervised or self-supervised, are widely used in deep learning to enhance model performance. In real-world clinical scenarios, different sets of magnetic resonance (MR) contrasts are often acquired for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Badhan Kumar Das , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

Transformer models have shown great potential in computer vision, following their success in language tasks. Swin Transformer is one of them that outperforms convolution-based architectures in terms of accuracy, while improving efficiency…

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