English
Related papers

Related papers: AToken: A Unified Tokenizer for Vision

200 papers

Recent advances in 3D vision-language models (VLMs) highlight a strong potential for 3D scene understanding and reasoning. However, effectively tokenizing 3D scenes into holistic scene tokens, and leveraging these tokens across diverse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yutao Tang , Cheng Zhao , Gaurav Mittal , Rohith Kukkala , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng , Mei Chen

The past few years have witnessed the rapid development of vision-centric 3D perception in autonomous driving. Although the 3D perception models share many structural and conceptual similarities, there still exist gaps in their feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yu Hong , Qian Liu , Huayuan Cheng , Danjiao Ma , Hang Dai , Yu Wang , Guangzhi Cao , Yong Ding

While language tasks are naturally expressed in a single, unified, modeling framework, i.e., generating sequences of tokens, this has not been the case in computer vision. As a result, there is a proliferation of distinct architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ting Chen , Saurabh Saxena , Lala Li , Tsung-Yi Lin , David J. Fleet , Geoffrey Hinton

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

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled unified understanding across text and images, yet equipping these models with robust image generation capabilities remains challenging. Existing approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xiangyi Chen , Théophane Vallaeys , Maha Elbayad , John Nguyen , Jakob Verbeek

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in vision-language understanding, yet effectively aligning different modalities remains a fundamental challenge. We present a framework that unifies multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Wanpeng Zhang , Yicheng Feng , Hao Luo , Yijiang Li , Zihao Yue , Sipeng Zheng , Zongqing Lu

Facial analysis exhibits task-specific feature variations. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have enabled the fine-grained representation of spatial information, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have facilitated the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sunyong Seo , Semin Kim , Jongha Lee

Efficient video tokenization remains a key bottleneck in learning general purpose vision models that are capable of processing long video sequences. Prevailing approaches are restricted to encoding videos to a fixed number of tokens, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wilson Yan , Volodymyr Mnih , Aleksandra Faust , Matei Zaharia , Pieter Abbeel , Hao Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in visual question answering tasks, but their reliance on large numbers of visual tokens introduces significant computational overhead. While existing efficient VLM approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zichuan Lin , Yicheng Liu , Yang Yang , Lvfang Tao , Deheng Ye

In this work, we introduce Dual Attention Vision Transformers (DaViT), a simple yet effective vision transformer architecture that is able to capture global context while maintaining computational efficiency. We propose approaching the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Mingyu Ding , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Ping Luo , Jingdong Wang , Lu Yuan

In image retrieval, deep local features learned in a data-driven manner have been demonstrated effective to improve retrieval performance. To realize efficient retrieval on large image database, some approaches quantize deep local features…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Hui Wu , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yang Hu , Houqiang Li

Recent advances in visual generation have emphasized the importance of Latent Generative Models (LGMs), which critically depend on effective visual tokenizers to bridge pixels and semantic representations. However, tokenizers constructed on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mingkai Jia , Mingxiao Li , Zhijian Shu , Anlin Zheng , Liaoyuan Fan , Jiaxin Guo , Tianxing Shi , Dongyue Lu , Zeming Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiao-Xiao Long , Qian Zhang , Ping Tan , Wei Yin

Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants (e.g., Swin, PVT) have achieved great success in various computer vision tasks, owing to their capability to learn long-range contextual information. Layer Normalization (LN) is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wenqi Shao , Yixiao Ge , Zhaoyang Zhang , Xuyuan Xu , Xiaogang Wang , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are powerful tools that are capable of reasoning and understanding multimodal information beyond text and language. Despite their entrenched impact, the development of LMMs is hindered by the higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Vittorio Pippi , Matthieu Guillaumin , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara , Maximilian Jaritz , Loris Bazzani

Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qingyu Shi , Size Wu , Jinbin Bai , Kaidong Yu , Yujing Wang , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li

Single Image Super-Resolution is a classic computer vision problem that involves estimating high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Although deep neural networks (DNNs), especially Transformers for super-resolution, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Leheng Zhang , Yawei Li , Xingyu Zhou , Xiaorui Zhao , Shuhang Gu

Real-time transmission of video over wireless networks remains highly challenging, even with advanced deep models, particularly under severe channel conditions such as limited bandwidth and weak connectivity. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhenyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Zhi Ding

Recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) have improved performance by increasing the number of visual tokens, which are often significantly longer than text tokens. However, we observe that most real-world scenarios do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Senqiao Yang , Junyi Li , Xin Lai , Bei Yu , Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia

Image tokenization plays a critical role in reducing the computational demands of modeling high-resolution images, significantly improving the efficiency of image and multimodal understanding and generation. Recent advances in 1D latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Benran Hu , Jiang Liu , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Yusheng Su , Xiaodong Yu , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have expanded reasoning capabilities into 3D domains, enabling fine-grained spatial understanding. However, the substantial size of 3D MLLMs and the high dimensionality of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhui Lin , Siyue Yu , Yuxing Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Jimin Xiao