Title
A Survey on Vision Transformer
Abstract
Transformer, first applied to the field of natural language processing, is a type of deep neural network mainly based on the self-attention mechanism. Thanks to its strong representation capabilities, researchers are looking at ways to apply transformer to computer vision tasks. In a variety of visual benchmarks, transformer-based models perform similar to or better than other types of networks such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks. Given its high performance and less need for vision-specific inductive bias, transformer is receiving more and more attention from the computer vision community. In this paper, we review these vision transformer models by categorizing them in different tasks and analyzing their advantages and disadvantages. The main categories we explore include the backbone network, high/mid-level vision, low-level vision, and video processing. We also include efficient transformer methods for pushing transformer into real device-based applications. Furthermore, we also take a brief look at the self-attention mechanism in computer vision, as it is the base component in transformer. Toward the end of this paper, we discuss the challenges and provide several further research directions for vision transformers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2023
10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3152247
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,high-level vision,low-level vision,self-attention,transformer,video
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0162-8828
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
0
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Han15511.16
Yunhe Wang211322.76
hanting chen3297.32
Xinghao Chen4467.73
Jianyuan Guo540.95
Zhenhua Liu640.61
Yehui Tang786.41
An Xiao841.63
Chunjing Xu96116.98
Yixing Xu1095.09
Zhaohui Yang11355.01
Yiman Zhang1240.95
Dacheng Tao1319032747.78