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Reasoning about visual relationships is central to how humans interpret the visual world. This task remains challenging for current deep learning algorithms since it requires addressing three key technical problems jointly: 1) identifying…

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Humans learn powerful representations of objects and scenes by observing how they evolve over time. Yet, outside of specific tasks that require explicit temporal understanding, static image pretraining remains the dominant paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Nikhil Parthasarathy , S. M. Ali Eslami , João Carreira , Olivier J. Hénaff

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) showed remarkable results in many vision tasks, they are still strained by simple yet challenging visual reasoning problems. Inspired by the recent success of the Transformer network in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Understanding model decisions is crucial in medical imaging, where interpretability directly impacts clinical trust and adoption. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in diagnostic imaging; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Leili Barekatain , Ben Glocker

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly utilized in various computer vision tasks due to their powerful representation capabilities. However, it remains understudied how ViTs process information layer by layer. Numerous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Teresa Dorszewski , Lenka Tětková , Robert Jenssen , Lars Kai Hansen , Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm

Recently vision transformers (ViT) have been applied successfully for various tasks in computer vision. However, important questions such as why they work or how they behave still remain largely unknown. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Van-Anh Nguyen , Khanh Pham Dinh , Long Tung Vuong , Thanh-Toan Do , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Can Vision-Language Models (VLMs) imagine the full scene from just a few views, like humans do? Humans form spatial mental models naturally, internal representations of unseen space, to reason about layout, perspective, and motion. Our…

Many AI models trained on natural images develop representations that resemble those of the human brain. However, the factors that drive this brain-model similarity remain poorly understood. To disentangle how the model, training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Joséphine Raugel , Marc Szafraniec , Huy V. Vo , Camille Couprie , Patrick Labatut , Piotr Bojanowski , Valentin Wyart , Jean-Rémi King

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

We present a comparative study on how and why contrastive learning (CL) and masked image modeling (MIM) differ in their representations and in their performance of downstream tasks. In particular, we demonstrate that self-supervised Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Namuk Park , Wonjae Kim , Byeongho Heo , Taekyung Kim , Sangdoo Yun

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

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

A clear understanding of where humans move in a scenario, their usual paths and speeds, and where they stop, is very important for different applications, such as mobility studies in urban areas or robot navigation tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Placido Falqueto , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luigi Palopoli , Daniele Fontanelli

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" relationships between only two objects, pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shiqi Chen , Tongyao Zhu , Ruochen Zhou , Jinghan Zhang , Siyang Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Mor Geva , Junxian He , Jiajun Wu , Manling Li

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

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated the significant potential of transformer architectures for computer vision. To what extent can image-based deep reinforcement learning also benefit from ViT architectures, as compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianxin Tao , Daniele Reda , Michiel van de Panne

Vision--language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit? We introduce a 3,034-sample human-curated benchmark targeting three components of spatial understanding: depth-ordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Animesh Maheshwari , Divyansh Sahu , Nishit Verma

Transformers, composed of multiple self-attention layers, hold strong promises toward a generic learning primitive applicable to different data modalities, including the recent breakthroughs in computer vision achieving state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sayak Paul , Pin-Yu Chen