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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently taken computer vision by storm. However, the softmax attention underlying ViTs comes with a quadratic complexity in time and memory, hindering the application of ViTs to high-resolution images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Chuanyang Zheng

Vision Transformer(ViT) is now dominating many vision tasks. The drawback of quadratic complexity of its token-wise multi-head self-attention (MHSA), is extensively addressed via either token sparsification or dimension reduction (in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haiyang Xu , Zhichao Zhou , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Jingdong Wang

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. Vision Transformers (ViT), enhanced with advanced data augmentation strategies for the detection of AI-generated images. Our approach leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shrikant Malviya , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Stamos Katsigiannis

Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Linxiang Su

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Current popular backbones in computer vision, such as Vision Transformers (ViT) and ResNets are trained to perceive the world from 2D images. However, to more effectively understand 3D structural priors in 2D backbones, we propose Mask3D to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ji Hou , Xiaoliang Dai , Zijian He , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Owing to advancements in deep learning technology, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various computer vision tasks. Nonetheless, ViTs still face some challenges, such as high computational complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yulong Shi , Mingwei Sun , Yongshuai Wang , Jiahao Ma , Zengqiang Chen

Deploying Vision Transformers on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational complexity, while full offloading to cloud resources presents significant latency overheads. We propose a novel collaborative inference framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hao Liu , Suhaib A. Fahmy

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in representation learning, leveraging self-attention mechanisms to excel in various tasks. ViTs split images into fixed-size patches, constraining them to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aswathi Varma , Suprosanna Shit , Chinmay Prabhakar , Daniel Scholz , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

Object detection is a central downstream task used to test if pre-trained network parameters confer benefits, such as improved accuracy or training speed. The complexity of object detection methods can make this benchmarking non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yanghao Li , Saining Xie , Xinlei Chen , Piotr Dollar , Kaiming He , Ross Girshick

Though the success of CLIP-based training recipes in vision-language models, their scalability to more modalities (e.g., 3D, audio, etc.) is limited to large-scale data, which is expensive or even inapplicable for rare modalities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Weixian Lei , Yixiao Ge , Jianfeng Zhang , Dylan Sun , Kun Yi , Ying Shan , Mike Zheng Shou

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

Transformer-based architectures have become the shared backbone of natural language processing and computer vision. However, understanding how these models operate remains challenging, particularly in vision settings, where images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Juan Manuel Hernandez , Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa , Denis Parra , Diego Gomez-Zara

Diffusion models with their powerful expressivity and high sample quality have achieved State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) performance in the generative domain. The pioneering Vision Transformer (ViT) has also demonstrated strong modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ali Hatamizadeh , Jiaming Song , Guilin Liu , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Vision transformers (ViTs) are usually considered to be less light-weight than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to the lack of inductive bias. Recent works thus resort to convolutions as a plug-and-play module and embed them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tao Huang , Lang Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have so far been the de-facto model for visual data. Recent work has shown that (Vision) Transformer models (ViT) can achieve comparable or even superior performance on image classification tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Maithra Raghu , Thomas Unterthiner , Simon Kornblith , Chiyuan Zhang , Alexey Dosovitskiy

This paper tackles a significant challenge faced by Vision Transformers (ViTs): their constrained scalability across different image resolutions. Typically, ViTs experience a performance decline when processing resolutions different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qihang Fan , Quanzeng You , Xiaotian Han , Yongfei Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Vision transformers (ViTs) quantization offers a promising prospect to facilitate deploying large pre-trained networks on resource-limited devices. Fully-binarized ViTs (Bi-ViT) that pushes the quantization of ViTs to its limit remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Mingbao Lin , Xianbin Cao , Chuanjian Liu , Xiao Sun , Baochang Zhang

Transformers are transforming the landscape of computer vision, especially for recognition tasks. Detection transformers are the first fully end-to-end learning systems for object detection, while vision transformers are the first fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hwanjun Song , Deqing Sun , Sanghyuk Chun , Varun Jampani , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Wonjae Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The recently developed vision transformer (ViT) has achieved promising results on image classification compared to convolutional neural networks. Inspired by this, in this paper, we study how to learn multi-scale feature representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Rameswar Panda