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We present a simple and effective architecture for fine-grained visual recognition called Bilinear Convolutional Neural Networks (B-CNNs). These networks represent an image as a pooled outer product of features derived from two CNNs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Tsung-Yu Lin , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Subhransu Maji

Several recent studies have demonstrated that attention-based networks, such as Vision Transformer (ViT), can outperform Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on several computer vision tasks without using convolutional layers. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shanda Li , Xiangning Chen , Di He , Cho-Jui Hsieh

With the advancement of deep learning technologies, specialized neural processing hardware such as Brain Processing Units (BPUs) have emerged as dedicated platforms for CNN acceleration, offering optimized INT8 computation capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jinchi Tang , Yan Guo

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hans Thisanke , Chamli Deshan , Kavindu Chamith , Sachith Seneviratne , Rajith Vidanaarachchi , Damayanthi Herath

Transformers have emerged as a competitive alternative to convnets in vision tasks, yet they lack the architectural inductive bias of convnets, which may hinder their potential performance. Specifically, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hagay Michaeli , Daniel Soudry

In recent years, deep learning has made brilliant achievements in Environmental Microorganism (EM) image classification. However, image classification of small EM datasets has still not obtained good research results. Therefore, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Peng Zhao , Chen Li , Md Mamunur Rahaman , Hao Xu , Hechen Yang , Hongzan Sun , Tao Jiang , Marcin Grzegorzek

We present a single neural network architecture composed of task-agnostic components (ViTs, convolutions, and LSTMs) that achieves state-of-art results on both the ImageNav ("go to location in <this picture>") and ObjectNav ("find a chair")…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Karmesh Yadav , Arjun Majumdar , Ram Ramrakhya , Naoki Yokoyama , Alexei Baevski , Zsolt Kira , Oleksandr Maksymets , Dhruv Batra

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) are two dominant models for image analysis. While CNNs excel at extracting multi-scale features and ViTs effectively capture global dependencies, both suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shicheng Yin , Kaixuan Yin , Weixing Chen , Enbo Huang , Yang Liu

Classical models describe primary visual cortex (V1) as a filter bank of orientation-selective linear-nonlinear (LN) or energy models, but these models fail to predict neural responses to natural stimuli accurately. Recent work shows that…

Hybrids of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) have outperformed pure CNN or ViT architecture. However, since these architectures require large parameters and incur large computational costs, they are unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mikhael Djajapermana , Moritz Reiber , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann

The task of Electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis is paramount to the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). However, to reach the goal of developing robust, useful BCIs depends heavily on the speed and the accuracy at which BCIs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Eric Modesitt , Haicheng Yin , Williams Huang Wang , Brian Lu

Vision Transformers, ViTs, have emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks, CNNs, in a variety of image-based tasks. While CNNs have previously been evaluated for their ability to perform graphical perception tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Poonam Poonam , Pere-Pau Vázquez , Timo Ropinski

This paper addresses the challenges in representation learning of 3D shape features by investigating state-of-the-art backbones paired with both contrastive supervised and self-supervised learning objectives. Computer vision methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Márcus Vinícius Lobo Costa , Sherlon Almeida da Silva , Bárbara Caroline Benato , Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

In recent developments in the field of Computer Vision, a rise is seen in the use of transformer-based architectures. They are surpassing the state-of-the-art set by CNN architectures in accuracy but on the other hand, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Durvesh Malpure , Onkar Litake , Rajesh Ingle

In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for learning multi-scale feature representations with good tradeoffs between speed and accuracy. This is achieved by using a multi-branch network, which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Neil Mallinar , Tom Sercu , Rogerio Feris

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

Vision transformers (ViTs) are quickly becoming the de-facto architecture for computer vision, yet we understand very little about why they work and what they learn. While existing studies visually analyze the mechanisms of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Amin Ghiasi , Hamid Kazemi , Eitan Borgnia , Steven Reich , Manli Shu , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Tom Goldstein

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Hybrid vision architectures combining Transformers and CNNs have significantly advanced image classification, but they usually do so at significant computational cost. We introduce EVCC (Enhanced Vision Transformer-ConvNeXt-CoAtNet), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kazi Reyazul Hasan , Md Nafiu Rahman , Wasif Jalal , Sadif Ahmed , Shahriar Raj , Mubasshira Musarrat , Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

Quantization scale and bit-width are the most important parameters when considering how to quantize a neural network. Prior work focuses on optimizing quantization scales in a global manner through gradient methods (gradient descent \&…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Natalia Frumkin , Dibakar Gope , Diana Marculescu