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Vision transformers have recently made a breakthrough in computer vision showing excellent performance in terms of precision for numerous applications. However, their computational cost is very high compared to alternative approaches such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martial Guidez , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia

Transformer-based architectures have revolutionized the landscape of deep learning. In computer vision domain, Vision Transformer demonstrates remarkable performance on par with or even surpassing that of convolutional neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Hui Zhang , Qinglin Zhao , Mengchu Zhou , Li Feng

This paper proposes a simple, yet effective framework, called GiT, simultaneously applicable for various vision tasks only with a vanilla ViT. Motivated by the universality of the Multi-layer Transformer architecture (e.g, GPT) widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Haiyang Wang , Hao Tang , Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Hongsheng Li , Bernt Schiele , Liwei Wang

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

The large pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. Among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Peng Gao , Guodong Guo

Deep learning applications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) predominantly operate on reconstructed magnitude images, a process that discards phase information and requires computationally expensive transforms. Standard neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Moritz Rempe , Lukas T. Rotkopf , Marco Schlimbach , Helmut Becker , Fabian Hörst , Johannes Haubold , Philipp Dammann , Kevin Kröninger , Jens Kleesiek

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely successful in 2D human pose estimation, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising alternative to CNNs, boosting state-of-the-art performance. However, the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kaleab A. Kinfu , Rene Vidal

Accurate identification of cat breeds from images is a challenging task due to subtle differences in fur patterns, facial structure, and color. In this paper, we present a deep learning-based approach for classifying cat breeds using a…

Image inpainting, the process of restoring missing or corrupted regions of an image by reconstructing pixel information, has recently seen considerable advancements through deep learning-based approaches. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo , Alireza Chaji , Sergio Escalera

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable performance in computer vision. However, positional encoding in ViT makes it substantially difficult to learn the intrinsic equivariance in data. Initial attempts have been made on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Renjun Xu , Kaifan Yang , Ke Liu , Fengxiang He

We observe that Gaussians exhibit distinct roles and characteristics analogous to traditional artistic techniques -- like how artists first sketch outlines before filling in broader areas with color, some Gaussians capture high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuang Shi , Géraldine Morin , Simone Gasparini , Wei Tsang Ooi

The image tokenizer is a critical component in AR image generation, as it determines how rich and structured visual content is encoded into compact representations. Existing quantization-based tokenizers such as VQ-GAN primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yiang Shi , Xiaoyang Guo , Wei Yin , Mingkai Jia , Qian Zhang , Xiaolin Hu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

As generative models become increasingly capable of producing high-fidelity visual content, the demand for efficient, interpretable, and editable image representations has grown substantially. Recent advances in 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hao Wang , Ashish Bastola , Chaoyi Zhou , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Siyu Huang , Abolfazl Razi

Nowadays, analysis of Transparent Environmental Microorganism Images (T-EM images) in the field of computer vision has gradually become a new and interesting spot. This paper compares different deep learning classification performance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Hechen Yang , Chen Li , Jinghua Zhang , Peng Zhao , Ao Chen , Xin Zhao , Tao Jiang , Marcin Grzegorzek

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Why are state-of-the-art Vision Transformers (ViTs) not designed to exploit natural geometric symmetries such as 90-degree rotations and reflections? In this paper, we argue that there is no fundamental reason, and what has been missing is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 David Nordström , Johan Edstedt , Fredrik Kahl , Georg Bökman

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

3D Gaussian splats have emerged as a revolutionary, effective, learned representation for static 3D scenes. In this work, we explore using 2D Gaussian splats as a new primitive for representing videos. We propose GSVC, an approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Longan Wang , Yuang Shi , Wei Tsang Ooi

We present ProtoViT, a method for interpretable image classification combining deep learning and case-based reasoning. This method classifies an image by comparing it to a set of learned prototypes, providing explanations of the form ``this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chiyu Ma , Jon Donnelly , Wenjun Liu , Soroush Vosoughi , Cynthia Rudin , Chaofan Chen

Current state-of-the-art methods for image captioning employ region-based features, as they provide object-level information that is essential to describe the content of images; they are usually extracted by an object detector such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Van-Quang Nguyen , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani