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Transformers, known for their attention mechanisms, have proven highly effective in focusing on critical elements within complex data. This feature can effectively be used to address the time-varying channels in wireless communication…

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Self-attention (SA) mechanisms can capture effectively global dependencies in deep neural networks, and have been applied to natural language processing and image processing successfully. However, SA modules for image reconstruction have…

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Transformer-based models have recently achieved outstanding performance in image matting. However, their application to high-resolution images remains challenging due to the quadratic complexity of global self-attention. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yiheng Lin , Yihan Hu , Chenyi Zhang , Ting Liu , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Hybrid CNN-Transformer architectures achieve strong results in image super-resolution, but scaling attention windows or convolution kernels significantly increases computational cost, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cao Thien Tan , Phan Thi Thu Trang , Do Nghiem Duc , Ho Ngoc Anh , Hanyang Zhuang , Nguyen Duc Dung

We present BoTNet, a conceptually simple yet powerful backbone architecture that incorporates self-attention for multiple computer vision tasks including image classification, object detection and instance segmentation. By just replacing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Aravind Srinivas , Tsung-Yi Lin , Niki Parmar , Jonathon Shlens , Pieter Abbeel , Ashish Vaswani

Medical image segmentation faces critical challenges in semi-supervised learning scenarios due to severe annotation scarcity requiring expert radiological knowledge, significant inter-annotator variability across different viewpoints and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Zihan Li , Dandan Shan , Yunxiang Li , Paul E. Kinahan , Qingqi Hong

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

The Swin transformer has recently attracted attention in medical image analysis due to its computational efficiency and long-range modeling capability. Owing to these properties, the Swin Transformer is suitable for establishing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mingrui Ma , Tao Wang , Lei Song , Weijie Wang , Guixia Liu

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have dominated computer vision for years, due to its ability in capturing locality and translation invariance. Recently, many vision transformer architectures have been proposed and they show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Fan Wang , Ming Lin , Shuning Chang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

In deep CNN based models for semantic segmentation, high accuracy relies on rich spatial context (large receptive fields) and fine spatial details (high resolution), both of which incur high computational costs. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ping Hu , Federico Perazzi , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Oliver Wang , Zhe Lin , Kate Saenko , Stan Sclaroff

In this paper, we observe two levels of redundancies when applying vision transformers (ViT) for image recognition. First, fixing the number of tokens through the whole network produces redundant features at the spatial level. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Baopu Li , Chuming Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Deep learning based single image super resolution (SISR) algorithms has revolutionized the overall diagnosis framework by continually improving the architectural components and training strategies associated with convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Muhammad Zawish , Farah Deeba Yuanchun Zhou , Kapal Dev , Sunder Ali Khowaja , Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi

The transformer networks are extensively utilized in face forgery detection due to their scalability across large datasets.Despite their success, transformers face challenges in balancing the capture of global context, which is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhida Zhang , Jie Cao , Wenkui Yang , Qihang Fan , Kai Zhou , Ran He

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely explored in single image super-resolution (SISR) and contribute remarkable progress. However, most of the existing CNNs-based SISR methods do not adequately explore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Jiqing Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Yuxin Wang , Haiyin Piao , Haiyang Mei , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin

Transformers have achieved success in both language and vision domains. However, it is prohibitively expensive to scale them to long sequences such as long documents or high-resolution images, because self-attention mechanism has quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Chen Zhu , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , Mohammad Shoeybi , Tom Goldstein , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained prominence for its superior relational modeling prowess. However, its global attention mechanism's quadratic complexity poses substantial computational burdens. A common remedy spatially groups tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Ran He

Over the past few years, vision transformers (ViTs) have consistently demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual recognition tasks. However, attempts to enhance their robustness have yielded limited success, mainly focusing…

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