Tag: self-attention

• Transformer Introduction (14 Apr 2021)
  

  This is my reading note for Transformers in Vision: A Survey. Transformers enable modeling long dependencies between input sequence elements and support parallel processing of sequence as compared to recurrent networks e.g., Long short-term memory (LSTM). Different from convolutional networks, Transformers require minimal inductive biases for their design and are naturally suited as set-functions. Furthermore, the straightforward design of Transformers allows processing multiple modalities (e.g., images, videos, text and speech) using similar processing blocks and demonstrates excellent scalability to very large capacity networks and huge datasets.

• Swin Transformer (11 Apr 2021)
  

  ViT provides the possibilities of using transformers along as a backbone for vision tasks. However, due to transformer conduct global self attention, where the relationships of a token and all other tokens are computed, its complexity grows exponentially with image resolution. This makes it inefficient for image segmentation or semantic segmentation task. To this end, twin transformer is proposed in Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows, which addresses the computation issue by conducting self attention in a local window and has multi-layers for windows at different resolution.