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Transformers, with their self-attention mechanisms for modeling long-range dependencies, have become a dominant paradigm in image restoration tasks. However, the high computational cost of self-attention limits scalability to…

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This paper proposes the first pure Transformer structure inversion network called SwinStyleformer, which can compensate for the shortcomings of the CNNs inversion framework by handling long-range dependencies and learning the global…

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Transformer-based QA models use input-wide self-attention -- i.e. across both the question and the input passage -- at all layers, causing them to be slow and memory-intensive. It turns out that we can get by without input-wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qingqing Cao , Harsh Trivedi , Aruna Balasubramanian , Niranjan Balasubramanian

Transformer-based models have revolutionized the field of image super-resolution (SR) by harnessing their inherent ability to capture complex contextual features. The overlapping rectangular shifted window technique used in transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Abhisek Ray , Gaurav Kumar , Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

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

Single image super resolution (SISR) is to reconstruct a high resolution image from a single low resolution image. The SISR task has been a very attractive research topic over the last two decades. In recent years, convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Bingzhe Wu , Haodong Duan , Zhichao Liu , Guangyu Sun

Mainstream approaches to spectral reconstruction (SR) primarily focus on designing Convolution- and Transformer-based architectures. However, CNN methods often face challenges in handling long-range dependencies, whereas Transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xinying Wang , Zhixiong Huang , Sifan Zhang , Jiawen Zhu , Paolo Gamba , Lin Feng

Balancing reconstruction quality versus model efficiency remains a critical challenge in lightweight single image super-resolution (SISR). Despite the prevalence of attention mechanisms in recent state-of-the-art SISR approaches that…

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Recent years have seen significant developments in the field of License Plate Recognition (LPR) through the integration of deep learning techniques and the increasing availability of training data. Nevertheless, reconstructing license…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Valfride Nascimento , Rayson Laroca , Jorge de A. Lambert , William Robson Schwartz , David Menotti

Foundational feed-forward visual geometry models enable accurate and efficient camera pose estimation and scene reconstruction by learning strong scene priors from massive RGB datasets. However, their effectiveness drops when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Vsevolod Skorokhodov , Chenghao Xu , Shuo Sun , Olga Fink , Malcolm Mielle

Although the lightweight Vision Transformer has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR), it faces the inherent challenge of a limited receptive field due to the window-based self-attention modeling. The quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wenyang Liu , Chen Cai , Jianjun Gao , Kejun Wu , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau

Image generation has been successfully cast as an autoregressive sequence generation or transformation problem. Recent work has shown that self-attention is an effective way of modeling textual sequences. In this work, we generalize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Niki Parmar , Ashish Vaswani , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer , Alexander Ku , Dustin Tran

Transformer models have demonstrated remarkable success in many domains such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. With the growing interest in transformer-based architectures, they are now utilized for gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mallika Garg , Debashis Ghosh , Pyari Mohan Pradhan

Matching visible and near-infrared (NIR) images remains a significant challenge in remote sensing image fusion. The nonlinear radiometric differences between heterogeneous remote sensing images make the image matching task even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wang Zhang , Tingting Li , Yuntian Zhang , Gensheng Pei , Xiruo Jiang , Yazhou Yao

We present DARTS, a transformer model for reference-based image super-resolution. DARTS learns joint representations of two image distributions to enhance the content of low-resolution input images through matching correspondences learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Masoomeh Aslahishahri , Jordan Ubbens , Ian Stavness

Medical image recognition serves as a key way to aid in clinical diagnosis, enabling more accurate and timely identification of diseases and abnormalities. Vision transformer-based approaches have proven effective in handling various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Efficient and lightweight single-image super-resolution (SISR) has achieved remarkable performance in recent years. One effective approach is the use of large kernel designs, which have been shown to improve the performance of SISR models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Chengxing Xie , Xiaoming Zhang , Linze Li , Haiteng Meng , Tianlin Zhang , Tianrui Li , Xiaole Zhao

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) is one of the low-level computer vision problems that has received increased attention in the last few years. Current approaches are primarily based on harnessing the power of deep learning models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Santiago López-Tapia , Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca

Image super-resolution (SR) serves as a fundamental tool for the processing and transmission of multimedia data. Recently, Transformer-based models have achieved competitive performances in image SR. They divide images into fixed-size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jie Liu , Chao Chen , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Transformers are expensive to train due to the quadratic time and space complexity in the self-attention mechanism. On the other hand, although kernel machines suffer from the same computation bottleneck in pairwise dot products, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yifan Chen , Qi Zeng , Heng Ji , Yun Yang