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Recently, there emerges a series of vision Transformers, which show superior performance with a more compact model size than conventional convolutional neural networks, thanks to the strong ability of Transformers to model long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Qihang Yu , Yingda Xia , Yutong Bai , Yongyi Lu , Alan Yuille , Wei Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built on the assumption of treating image patches as ``visual tokens" and learn patch-to-patch attention. The patch embedding based tokenizer has a semantic gap with respect to its counterpart, the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ryan Grainger , Thomas Paniagua , Xi Song , Naresh Cuntoor , Mun Wai Lee , Tianfu Wu

The performance of current Scene Graph Generation models is severely hampered by some hard-to-distinguish predicates, e.g., "woman-on/standing on/walking on-beach" or "woman-near/looking at/in front of-child". While general SGG models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Xinyu Lyu , Lianli Gao , Yuyu Guo , Zhou Zhao , Hao Huang , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

In recent years, transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies. However, these methods typically suffer from two major limitations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zunhui Xia , Hongxing Li , Libin Lan

Despite the significant advancements in pre-training methods for point cloud understanding, directly capturing intricate shape information from irregular point clouds without reliance on external data remains a formidable challenge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Changshuo Wang , Meiqing Wu , Siew-Kei Lam , Xin Ning , Shangshu Yu , Ruiping Wang , Weijun Li , Thambipillai Srikanthan

This paper presents a novel approach to address the challenges of understanding the prediction process and debugging prediction errors in Vision Transformers (ViT), which have demonstrated superior performance in various computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Seok-Yong Byun , Wonju Lee

Currently, most food recognition relies on deep learning for category classification. However, these approaches struggle to effectively distinguish between visually similar food samples, highlighting the pressing need to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Guohang Zhuang , Yue Hu , Tianxing Yan , JiaZhan Gao

Recently, deep learning based facial landmark detection (FLD) methods have achieved considerable success. However, in challenging scenarios such as large pose variations, illumination changes, and facial expression variations, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jun Wan , Xinyu Xiong , Ning Chen , Zhihui Lai , Jie Zhou , Wenwen Min

Fine-grained image recognition is central to many multimedia tasks such as search, retrieval and captioning. Unfortunately, these tasks are still challenging since the appearance of samples of the same class can be more different than those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Pau Rodríguez López , Diego Velazquez Dorta , Guillem Cucurull Preixens , Josep M. Gonfaus , F. Xavier Roca Marva , Jordi Gonzàlez Sabaté

Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) aims at distinguishing highly similar sub-categories within fine-grained objects, such as different soybean cultivars. Compared to traditional fine-grained visual categorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yu Liu , Yaqi Cai , Qi Jia , Binglin Qiu , Weimin Wang , Nan Pu

Transformer-based approaches have revolutionized image super-resolution by modeling long-range dependencies. However, the quadratic computational complexity of vanilla self-attention mechanisms poses significant challenges, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dinh Phu Tran , Thao Do , Saad Wazir , Seongah Kim , Seon Kwon Kim , Daeyoung Kim

In computer vision tasks, the ability to focus on relevant regions within an image is crucial for improving model performance, particularly when key features are small, subtle, or spatially dispersed. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mahmudul Hasan

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Recent advances have demonstrated the powerful capability of transformer architecture in image restoration. However, our analysis indicates that existing transformerbased methods can not establish both exact global and local dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhijun Tu , Kunpeng Du , Hanting Chen , Hailing Wang , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Yunhe Wang

Transformer has been applied in the field of computer vision due to its excellent performance in natural language processing, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks and achieving new state-of-the-art. ViT divides an image into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuang Liu , Zhiheng Qiu , Xiaokai Qin

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance for various visual recognition scenarios. CNNs trained on large labeled datasets can not only obtain significant performance on most challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiangyang Li , Luis Herranz , Shuqiang Jiang

Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jason Kahei Tam , Murilo Gustineli , Anthony Miyaguchi

Medical image segmentation requires models that preserve fine anatomical boundaries while remaining practical for clinical deployment. Transformers capture long-range dependencies but incur quadratic attention cost, whereas CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hongbo Zheng , Afshin Bozorgpour , Dorit Merhof , Minjia Zhang

This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

Accurate classification of breast cancer histopathology images is pivotal for early oncological diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.However, conventional deep learning architectures often encounter performance degradation under limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lin-Guo Gao , Suxing Liu