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Attention mechanism has been crucial for image diffusion models, however, their quadratic computational complexity limits the sizes of images we can process within reasonable time and memory constraints. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Ethan Smith , Nayan Saxena , Aninda Saha

By cropping high-resolution images into local tiles and encoding them independently, High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models (HR-LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable fine-grained visual understanding capabilities. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xu Li , Yuxuan Liang , Xiaolei Chen , Yi Zheng , Haotian Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, the large number of visual tokens introduces significant computational overhead. To address this issue, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuxiang Duan , Ao Li , Yingqin Li , Luyu Li , Pengwei Wang

Existing methods for Video Reasoning Segmentation rely heavily on a single special token to represent the object in the keyframe or the entire video, inadequately capturing spatial complexity and inter-frame motion. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Sitong Gong , Yunzhi Zhuge , Lu Zhang , Zongxin Yang , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Over the past few years, the vision transformer and its various forms have gained significance in human pose estimation. By treating image patches as tokens, transformers can capture global relationships wisely, estimate the keypoint tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Anning Li

Since the introduction of the Vision Transformer (ViT), researchers have sought to make ViTs more efficient by removing redundant information in the processed tokens. While different methods have been explored to achieve this goal, we still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Joakim Bruslund Haurum , Sergio Escalera , Graham W. Taylor , Thomas B. Moeslund

Vision Transformer has demonstrated impressive success across various vision tasks. However, its heavy computation cost, which grows quadratically with respect to the token sequence length, largely limits its power in handling large feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Sucheng Ren , Xingyi Yang , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Streaming visual transformers like StreamVGGT achieve strong 3D perception but suffer from unbounded growth of key value (KV) memory, which limits scalability. We propose a training-free, inference-time token eviction policy that bounds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Soroush Mahdi , Fardin Ayar , Ehsan Javanmardi , Manabu Tsukada , Mahdi Javanmardi

Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes is challenging, as it requires robust disentanglement of dynamic objects from the static background. While 3D foundation models like VGGT provide accurate 3D geometry, their performance drops markedly when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yu Hu , Chong Cheng , Sicheng Yu , Xiaoyang Guo , Hao Wang

Transformers have demonstrated great potential in computer vision tasks. To avoid dense computations of self-attentions in high-resolution visual data, some recent Transformer models adopt a hierarchical design, where self-attentions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jinpeng Li , Yichao Yan , Shengcai Liao , Xiaokang Yang , Ling Shao

Feature selection aims to identify the most pattern-discriminative feature subset. In prior literature, filter (e.g., backward elimination) and embedded (e.g., Lasso) methods have hyperparameters (e.g., top-K, score thresholding) and tie to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) incur high computational costs due to their reliance on hundreds of visual tokens to represent images. While token pruning offers a promising solution for accelerating inference, this paper, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yahong Wang , Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Longzhen Yang , Yihang Liu , Chengmei Yang , Ying Wen , Lianghua He , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Yuyin Zhou

Vision transformers have shown great success on numerous computer vision tasks. However, its central component, softmax attention, prohibits vision transformers from scaling up to high-resolution images, due to both the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Weixuan Sun , Zhen Qin , Hui Deng , Jianyuan Wang , Yi Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Nick Barnes , Stan Birchfield , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

Conventional Vision-Language Models(VLMs) typically utilize a fixed number of vision tokens, regardless of task complexity. This one-size-fits-all strategy introduces notable inefficiencies: using excessive tokens leads to unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Junshan Hu , Jialiang Mao , Zhikang Liu , Zhongpu Xia , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

Multi-view 3D geometry networks offer a powerful prior but are prohibitively slow for real-time applications. We propose a novel way to adapt them for online use, enabling real-time 6-DoF pose tracking and online reconstruction of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Marwan Taher , Ignacio Alzugaray , Kirill Mazur , Xin Kong , Andrew J. Davison

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated strong potential in hyperspectral pansharpening by modeling long-range dependencies. However, their effectiveness is often limited by redundant token representations and a lack of multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongkun Jin , Hongcheng Jiang , Zejun Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Jia Fu , Tingfeng Li , Kai Luo

Token pruning has emerged as a mainstream approach for developing efficient Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs). This work revisits and advances the two predominant token-pruning paradigms: attention-based selection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shukang Yin , Sirui Zhao , Hanchao Wang , Baozhi Jia , Xianquan Wang , Chaoyou Fu , Enhong Chen

Vision transformers have achieved remarkable progress in vision tasks such as image classification and detection. However, in instance-level image retrieval, transformers have not yet shown good performance compared to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Chull Hwan Song , Jooyoung Yoon , Shunghyun Choi , Yannis Avrithis

High-resolution Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are widely used in multimodal tasks to enhance accuracy by preserving detailed image information. However, these models often generate an excessive number of visual tokens due to the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif , JinYi Yoon , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji

Streaming 3D reconstruction from long monocular video sequences requires maintaining a key-value (KV) cache that grows linearly with sequence length, creating a severe memory bottleneck. Existing approaches either truncate the cache to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Leyang Chen , Junyi Wu , Zhiteng Li , Yulun Zhang
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