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Non-hierarchical sparse attention Transformer-based models, such as Longformer and Big Bird, are popular approaches to working with long documents. There are clear benefits to these approaches compared to the original Transformer in terms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ilias Chalkidis , Xiang Dai , Manos Fergadiotis , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Desmond Elliott

Transformers have demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). The quadratic computational complexity of window self-attention mechanisms in many transformer-based SR methods forces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fayaz Ali , Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Radu Timofte

Recently Transformer-based hyperspectral image (HSI) change detection methods have shown remarkable performance. Nevertheless, existing attention mechanisms in Transformers have limitations in local feature representation. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Ziyi Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Recent studies indicate that hierarchical Vision Transformer with a macro architecture of interleaved non-overlapped window-based self-attention \& shifted-window operation is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yuxin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Rui Wu , Wenyu Liu

With the popularity of Transformer architectures in computer vision, the research focus has shifted towards developing computationally efficient designs. Window-based local attention is one of the major techniques being adopted in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ammarah Farooq , Muhammad Awais , Sara Ahmed , Josef Kittler

Transformer models have achieved promising performances in point cloud segmentation. However, most existing attention schemes provide the same feature learning paradigm for all points equally and overlook the enormous difference in size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junjie Zhou , Yongping Xiong , Chinwai Chiu , Fangyu Liu , Xiangyang Gong

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Informative features play a crucial role in the single image super-resolution task. Channel attention has been demonstrated to be effective for preserving information-rich features in each layer. However, channel attention treats each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Ben Niu , Weilei Wen , Wenqi Ren , Xiangde Zhang , Lianping Yang , Shuzhen Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Haifeng Shen

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) reconstructs high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs, enhancing image details. While Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models improve SISR by capturing long-range dependencies, they suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Junyoung Kim , Youngrok Kim , Siyeol Jung , Donghyun Min

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, their emphasis on global context often comes at the expense of local feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Puskal Khadka , Rodrigue Rizk , Longwei Wang , KC Santosh

One of the crucial challenges taken in document analysis is mathematical expression recognition. Unlike text recognition which only focuses on one-dimensional structure images, mathematical expression recognition is a much more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Anh Duy Le , Van Linh Pham , Vinh Loi Ly , Nam Quan Nguyen , Huu Thang Nguyen , Tuan Anh Tran

Transformers' quadratic computational complexity limits their scalability despite remarkable performance. While linear attention reduces this to linear complexity, pre-training such models from scratch remains, in most cases, prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Martin Benfeghoul , Teresa Delgado , Adnan Oomerjee , Haitham Bou Ammar , Jun Wang , Zafeirios Fountas

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, underscoring the importance of early detection for effective treatment. However, automated DR classification remains challenging due to variations in image quality, class…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Meher Boulaabi , Takwa Ben Aïcha Gader , Afef Kacem Echi , Zied Bouraoui

Deep neural networks face several challenges in hyperspectral image classification, including high-dimensional data, sparse distribution of ground objects, and spectral redundancy, which often lead to classification overfitting and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guandong Li , Mengxia Ye

Recently, the vision transformer (ViT) has made breakthroughs in image recognition. Its self-attention mechanism (MSA) can extract discriminative labeling information of different pixel blocks to improve image classification accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu , Weibin Qiu , Weijie Wu

We present Neighborhood Attention (NA), the first efficient and scalable sliding-window attention mechanism for vision. NA is a pixel-wise operation, localizing self attention (SA) to the nearest neighboring pixels, and therefore enjoys a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ali Hassani , Steven Walton , Jiachen Li , Shen Li , Humphrey Shi

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

Transformers have exhibited promising performance in computer vision tasks including image super-resolution (SR). However, popular transformer-based SR methods often employ window self-attention with quadratic computational complexity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiang Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Fisher Yu

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technology that provides cross-sectional images of tissues. Dense acquisition of A-scans along the fast axis is required to obtain high digital resolution images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Zezhao Guo , Zhanfang Zhao