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Writer identification due to its widespread application in various fields has gained popularity over the years. In scenarios where optimum handwriting samples are available, whether they be in the form of a single line, a sentence, or an…

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Vision transformer has achieved impressive performance for many vision tasks. However, it may suffer from high redundancy in capturing local features for shallow layers. Local self-attention or early-stage convolutions are thus utilized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huaibo Huang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

The features of self-supervised vision transformers (ViTs) contain strong semantic and positional information relevant to downstream tasks like object localization and segmentation. Recent works combine these features with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ronan Docherty , Antonis Vamvakeros , Samuel J. Cooper

This paper proposes a working recipe of using Vision Transformer (ViT) in class incremental learning. Although this recipe only combines existing techniques, developing the combination is not trivial. Firstly, naive application of ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pei Yu , Yinpeng Chen , Ying Jin , Zicheng Liu

Biomedical image classification requires capturing of bio-informatics based on specific feature distribution. In most of such applications, there are mainly challenges due to limited availability of samples for diseased cases and imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Self-supervised learning has been widely applied to train high-quality vision transformers. Unleashing their excellent performance on memory and compute constraint devices is therefore an important research topic. However, how to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kai Wang , Fei Yang , Joost van de Weijer

We present SSL-HV: Self-Supervised Learning approaches applied to the task of Handwriting Verification. This task involves determining whether a given pair of handwritten images originate from the same or different writer distribution. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Mihir Chauhan , Mohammad Abuzar Hashemi , Abhishek Satbhai , Mir Basheer Ali , Bina Ramamurthy , Mingchen Gao , Siwei Lyu , Sargur Srihari

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown high potential in video recognition, owing to its flexible design, adaptable self-attention mechanisms, and the efficacy of masked pre-training. Yet, it remains unclear how to adapt these pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Min Yang , Huan Gao , Ping Guo , Limin Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification, yet their attention mechanisms often remain opaque and exhibit dense, non-structured behaviors. In this work, we adapt our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Vision transformers (ViT) have been shown to allow for more flexible feature detection and can outperform convolutional neural network (CNN) when pre-trained on sufficient data. Due to their promising feature detection capabilities, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Nghia , Nguyen , Amer Wahed , Andy Quesada , Yasir Ali , Hanadi El Achi , Y. Helen Zhang , Jocelyn Ursua , Alex Banerjee , Sahib Kalra , L. Jeffrey Medeiros , Jie Xu

The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Gousia Habib , Damandeep Singh , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

Metal manufacturing often results in the production of defective products, leading to operational challenges. Since traditional manual inspection is time-consuming and resource-intensive, automatic solutions are needed. The study utilizes…

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Transformers have become the dominant model in natural language processing, owing to their ability to pretrain on massive amounts of data, then transfer to smaller, more specific tasks via fine-tuning. The Vision Transformer was the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Josh Beal , Eric Kim , Eric Tzeng , Dong Huk Park , Andrew Zhai , Dmitry Kislyuk

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance over various computer vision tasks. However, modeling global correlations with multi-head self-attention (MSA) layers leads to two widely recognized issues: the massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Liu , Zizheng Pan , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

Keyword spotting (KWS) in historical documents is an important tool for the initial exploration of digitized collections. Nowadays, the most efficient KWS methods are relying on machine learning techniques that require a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sana Khamekhem Jemni , Sourour Ammar , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Yousri Kessentini , Abbas Cheddad

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures represent images as collections of high-dimensional vectorized tokens, each corresponding to a rectangular non-overlapping patch. This representation trades spatial granularity for embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dong Lao , Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has recently attracted extensive attention in various areas. Existing FSCIL methods highly depend on the robustness of the feature backbone pre-trained on base classes. In recent years, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenhao Qiu , Sichao Fu , Jingyi Zhang , Chengxiang Lei , Qinmu Peng

There are two types of information in each handwritten word image: explicit information which can be easily read or derived directly, such as lexical content or word length, and implicit attributes such as the author's identity. Whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sheng He , Lambert Schomaker

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, where product information often consists of visual samples…

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