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most citedAre Transformers More Robust Than CNNs?

93 citations · 253 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CV2024

Analyzing The Language of Visual Tokens

David M. Chan, Rodolfo Corona, Joonyong Park +3

With the introduction of transformer-based models for vision and language tasks, such as LLaVA and Chameleon, there has been renewed interest in the discrete tokenized representati…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Multiview Object Consistency in Humans and Image Models

Tyler Bonnen, Stephanie Fu, Yutong Bai +5

We introduce a benchmark to directly evaluate the alignment between human observers and vision models on a 3D shape inference task. We leverage an experimental design from the cogn…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models

Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi +5

This paper investigates visual analogical reasoning in large multimodal models (LMMs) compared to human adults and children. A "visual analogy" is an abstract rule inferred from on…

cs.RO2024

LLARVA: Vision-Action Instruction Tuning Enhances Robot Learning

Dantong Niu, Yuvan Sharma, Giscard Biamby +5

In recent years, instruction-tuned Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been successful at several tasks, including image captioning and visual question answering; yet leveraging th…

cs.CV2024

Finding Visual Task Vectors

Alberto Hojel, Yutong Bai, Trevor Darrell +2

Visual Prompting is a technique for teaching models to perform a visual task via in-context examples, without any additional training. In this work, we analyze the activations of M…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models

Yutong Bai, Xinyang Geng, Karttikeya Mangalam +5

We introduce a novel sequential modeling approach which enables learning a Large Vision Model (LVM) without making use of any linguistic data. To do this, we define a common format…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Understanding Pan-Sharpening via Generalized Inverse

Shiqi Liu, Yihua Tan, Yutong Bai +1

Pan-sharpening algorithms utilize a panchromatic image and a multispectral image to generate a high spatial and high spectral image. However, the optimizations of the algorithms ar…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Discovering Failure Modes of Text-guided Diffusion Models via Adversarial Search

Qihao Liu, Adam Kortylewski, Yutong Bai +2

Text-guided diffusion models (TDMs) are widely applied but can fail unexpectedly. Common failures include: (i) natural-looking text prompts generating images with the wrong content…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Delving into Masked Autoencoders for Multi-Label Thorax Disease Classification

Junfei Xiao, Yutong Bai, Alan Yuille +1

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become one of the most popular neural architectures due to its great scalability, computational efficiency, and compelling performance in many vision t…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Making Your First Choice: To Address Cold Start Problem in Vision Active Learning

Liangyu Chen, Yutong Bai, Siyu Huang +4

Active learning promises to improve annotation efficiency by iteratively selecting the most important data to be annotated first. However, we uncover a striking contradiction to th…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Masked Autoencoders Enable Efficient Knowledge Distillers

Yutong Bai, Zeyu Wang, Junfei Xiao +5

This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel recons…

cs.CV2022★ 15 cited

Can CNNs Be More Robust Than Transformers?

Zeyu Wang, Yutong Bai, Yuyin Zhou +1

The recent success of Vision Transformers is shaking the long dominance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image recognition for a decade. Specifically, in terms of robustn…

cs.CV2022

Fast AdvProp

Jieru Mei, Yucheng Han, Yutong Bai +5

Adversarial Propagation (AdvProp) is an effective way to improve recognition models, leveraging adversarial examples. Nonetheless, AdvProp suffers from the extremely slow training…

cs.CV2022

Point-Level Region Contrast for Object Detection Pre-Training

Yutong Bai, Xinlei Chen, Alexander Kirillov +2

In this work we present point-level region contrast, a self-supervised pre-training approach for the task of object detection. This approach is motivated by the two key factors in…

cs.CV2021★ 93 cited

Are Transformers More Robust Than CNNs?

Yutong Bai, Jieru Mei, Alan Yuille +1

Transformer emerges as a powerful tool for visual recognition. In addition to demonstrating competitive performance on a broad range of visual benchmarks, recent works also argue t…

cs.CV2021★ 33 cited

Glance-and-Gaze Vision Transformer

Qihang Yu, Yingda Xia, Yutong Bai +3

Recently, there emerges a series of vision Transformers, which show superior performance with a more compact model size than conventional convolutional neural networks, thanks to t…

eess.IV2021

CateNorm: Categorical Normalization for Robust Medical Image Segmentation

Junfei Xiao, Lequan Yu, Zongwei Zhou +4

Batch normalization (BN) uniformly shifts and scales the activations based on the statistics of a batch of images. However, the intensity distribution of the background pixels ofte…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grained Recognition

Ju He, Jie-Neng Chen, Shuai Liu +4

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

Mask Guided Matting via Progressive Refinement Network

Qihang Yu, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang +5

We propose Mask Guided (MG) Matting, a robust matting framework that takes a general coarse mask as guidance. MG Matting leverages a network (PRN) design which encourages the matti…

cs.CV2020

Unsupervised Part Discovery via Feature Alignment

Mengqi Guo, Yutong Bai, Zhishuai Zhang +2

Understanding objects in terms of their individual parts is important, because it enables a precise understanding of the objects' geometrical structure, and enhances object recogni…

cs.CV2020★ 29 cited

Can Temporal Information Help with Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning?

Yutong Bai, Haoqi Fan, Ishan Misra +6

Leveraging temporal information has been regarded as essential for developing video understanding models. However, how to properly incorporate temporal information into the recent…

cs.CV2020★ 6 cited

CoKe: Localized Contrastive Learning for Robust Keypoint Detection

Yutong Bai, Angtian Wang, Adam Kortylewski +1

In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for keypoint detection (CoKe). Keypoint detection differs from other visual tasks where contrastive learning has been a…

cs.CV2019★ 18 cited

C2FNAS: Coarse-to-Fine Neural Architecture Search for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Qihang Yu, Dong Yang, Holger Roth +4

3D convolution neural networks (CNN) have been proved very successful in parsing organs or tumours in 3D medical images, but it remains sophisticated and time-consuming to choose o…

cs.CV2019★ 21 cited

CLEVR-Ref+: Diagnosing Visual Reasoning with Referring Expressions

Runtao Liu, Chenxi Liu, Yutong Bai +1

Referring object detection and referring image segmentation are important tasks that require joint understanding of visual information and natural language. Yet there has been evid…