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The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, but its high computational demands make it impractical for edge devices with limited resources. This paper presents MicroViT, a…

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Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Despite the success of vision transformers (ViTs), they still suffer from significant drops in accuracy in the presence of common corruptions, such as noise or blur. Interestingly, we observe that the attention mechanism of ViTs tends to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yong Guo , David Stutz , Bernt Schiele

Given the significant advances in machine learning techniques on mobile devices, particularly in the domain of computer vision, in this work we quantitatively study the performance characteristics of 190 real-world vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently obtained success in many applications, but their intensive computation and heavy memory usage at both training and inference time limit their generalization. Previous compression algorithms usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhenglun Kong , Haoyu Ma , Geng Yuan , Mengshu Sun , Yanyue Xie , Peiyan Dong , Xin Meng , Xuan Shen , Hao Tang , Minghai Qin , Tianlong Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Xiaohui Xie , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi Wang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti

We address the task of weakly-supervised few-shot image classification and segmentation, by leveraging a Vision Transformer (ViT) pretrained with self-supervision. Our proposed method takes token representations from the self-supervised ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dahyun Kang , Piotr Koniusz , Minsu Cho , Naila Murray

Vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable performance in various computer vision tasks. However, intensive memory and computation requirements impede ViTs from running on resource-constrained edge devices. Due to the non-normally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Yu-Shan Tai , Ming-Guang Lin , An-Yeu , Wu

Vision Transformer models, such as ViT, Swin Transformer, and Transformer-in-Transformer, have recently gained significant traction in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture the global relation between features which leads to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Shashank Nag , Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Nitin Chandrachoodan , Peter A. Beerel

While vision transformers have achieved impressive results, effectively and efficiently accelerating these models can further boost performances. In this work, we propose a dense/sparse training framework to obtain a unified model, enabling…

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Skin lesion segmentation (SLS) plays an important role in skin lesion analysis. Vision transformers (ViTs) are considered an auspicious solution for SLS, but they require more training data compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

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Modeling hyperspectral imagery (HSI) across different sensors presents a fundamental challenge due to variations in wavelength coverage, band sampling, and channel dimensionality. As a result, models trained under a fixed spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haozhe Si , Yuxuan Wan , Yuqing Wang , Minh Do , Han Zhao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved strong performance in visual recognition, yet their deployment in resource-constrained industrial environments remains limited. Some main challenges are their high computational cost, memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Phat Nguyen , Xue Geng , Kaixin Xu , Wang Zhe , Xulei Yang , Ngai-Man Cheung

For computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the go-to deep net architectures. Despite being inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), ViTs' output remains sensitive to small spatial shifts in the input, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Teck-Yian Lim , Minh N. Do , Raymond A. Yeh

Vision Transformers (ViT) have made many breakthroughs in computer vision tasks. However, considerable redundancy arises in the spatial dimension of an input image, leading to massive computational costs. Therefore, We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mengzhao Chen , Mingbao Lin , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yongjian Wu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

In the present work we present Training Noise Token (TNT) Pruning for vision transformers. Our method relaxes the discrete token dropping condition to continuous additive noise, providing smooth optimization in training, while retaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingxing Rao , Bohan Jiang , Daniel Moyer

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network architecture is vulnerable to adversarial attacks limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

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 (ViT) have marked a paradigm shift in computer vision, outperforming state-of-the-art models across diverse tasks. However, their practical deployment is hampered by high computational and memory demands. This study…

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