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Shift equivariance is a fundamental principle that governs how we perceive the world - our recognition of an object remains invariant with respect to shifts. Transformers have gained immense popularity due to their effectiveness in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Peijian Ding , Davit Soselia , Thomas Armstrong , Jiahao Su , Furong Huang

The transformer model has gained widespread adoption in computer vision tasks in recent times. However, due to the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention, which is proportional to the number of input tokens, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Wei Tan , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the de-facto for mobile vision tasks. Their spatial inductive biases allow them to learn representations with fewer parameters across different vision tasks. However, these networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Sachin Mehta , Mohammad Rastegari

Age estimation from facial images is a complex and multifaceted challenge in computer vision. In this study, we present a novel hybrid architecture that combines ConvNeXt, a state-of-the-art advancement of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gaby Maroun , Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Fadi Dornaika

Recently, Transformers have emerged as the go-to architecture for both vision and language modeling tasks, but their computational efficiency is limited by the length of the input sequence. To address this, several efficient variants of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Hao Zheng , Jinbao Wang , Xiantong Zhen , Hong Chen , Jingkuan Song , Feng Zheng

Vision Transformers have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention responses in Transformers, we empirically observe two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xu Ma , Huan Wang , Can Qin , Kunpeng Li , Xingchen Zhao , Jie Fu , Yun Fu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

We design a new family of hybrid CNN-ViT neural networks, named FasterViT, with a focus on high image throughput for computer vision (CV) applications. FasterViT combines the benefits of fast local representation learning in CNNs and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ali Hatamizadeh , Greg Heinrich , Hongxu Yin , Andrew Tao , Jose M. Alvarez , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Model binarization has made significant progress in enabling real-time and energy-efficient computation for convolutional neural networks (CNN), offering a potential solution to the deployment challenges faced by Vision Transformers (ViTs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Tian Gao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Yu Zhang , Huajun Liu , Kaijie Yin , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

In recent years, the Vision Transformer (ViT) has garnered significant attention within the computer vision community. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and suffers from quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

The synergy of long-range dependencies from transformers and local representations of image content from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has led to advanced architectures and increased performance for various medical image analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yiqing Shen , Pengfei Guo , Jingpu Wu , Qianqi Huang , Nhat Le , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Mathias Unberath

Federated learning research has recently shifted from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Vision Transformers (ViTs) due to their superior capacity. ViTs training demands higher computational resources due to the lack of 2D inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Meihan Wu , Tao Chang , Cui Miao , Jie Zhou , Chun Li , Xiangyu Xu , Ming Li , Xiaodong Wang

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Inspired by the tremendous success of the self-attention mechanism in natural language processing, the Vision Transformer (ViT) creatively applies it to image patch sequences and achieves incredible performance. However, the scaled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yanhong Fei , Yingjie Liu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential in computer vision for local and global feature extraction. However, aggregating these architectures in existing methods often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Chunlei Meng , Jiacheng Yang , Wei Lin , Bowen Liu , Hongda Zhang , chun ouyang , Zhongxue Gan

Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saebom Leem , Hyunseok Seo

The hybrid architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer are very popular for medical image segmentation. However, it suffers from two challenges. First, although a CNNs branch can capture the local image features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Tao Lei , Rui Sun , Xuan Wang , Yingbo Wang , Xi He , Asoke Nandi

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai