Biological systems perceive the world by simultaneously processing high-dimensional inputs from modalities as diverse as vision, audition, touch, proprioception, etc. The perception models used in deep learning on the other hand are designed for individual modalities, often relying on domainspecific assumptions such as the local grid structures exploited by virtually all existing vision models. These priors introduce helpful inductive biases, but also lock models to individual modalities. In this paper we introduce the Perceiver -a model that builds upon Transformers and hence makes few architectural assumptions about the relationship between its inputs, but that also scales to hundreds of thousands of inputs, like ConvNets. The model leverages an asymmetric attention mechanism to iteratively distill inputs into a tight latent bottleneck, allowing it to scale to handle very large inputs. We show that this architecture is competitive with or outperforms strong, specialized models on classification tasks across various modalities: images, point clouds, audio, video, and video+audio. The Perceiver obtains performance comparable to ResNet-50 and ViT on ImageNet without 2D convolutions by directly attending to 50,000 pixels. It is also competitive in all modalities in AudioSet.

General perception systems such as Perceivers can process arbitrary modalities in any combination and are able to handle up to a few hundred thousand inputs. They achieve this generality by using exclusively global attention operations. This however hinders them from scaling up to the inputs sizes required to process raw high-resolution images or video. In this paper, we show that some degree of locality can be introduced back into these models, greatly improving their efficiency while preserving their generality. To scale them further, we introduce a self-supervised approach that enables learning dense low-dimensional positional embeddings for very large signals. We call the resulting model a Hierarchical Perceiver (HiP). In sum our contributions are: 1) scaling Perceiver-type models to raw high-resolution images and audio+video, 2) showing the feasibility of learning 1M+ positional embeddings from scratch using masked auto-encoding, 3) demonstrating competitive performance on raw data from ImageNet, AudioSet, PASCAL VOC, ModelNet40 and Kinetics datasets with the same exact, unchanged model and without specialized preprocessing or any tokenization.

现实世界中的数据是高维的：即使在压缩后，书籍，图像或音乐表演也很容易包含数十万个元素。但是，最常用的自回归模型，变压器非常昂贵，以缩放捕获这种远程结构所需的输入和层数。我们开发了感知者AR，这是一种自回归的模态 - 不合骨架构，它使用交叉注意力将远程输入映射到少数潜在的潜在，同时还可以维护端到端的因果关系掩盖。感知器AR可以直接进行十万个令牌，从而实现了实用的长篇小写密度估计，而无需手工制作的稀疏模式或记忆机制。当对图像或音乐进行培训时，感知器AR会生成具有清晰长期连贯性和结构的输出。我们的架构还获得了长期基准测试的最新可能性，包括64 x 64个Imagenet图像和PG-19书籍。

Astounding results from Transformer models on natural language tasks have intrigued the vision community to study their application to computer vision problems. Among their salient benefits, 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. These strengths have led to exciting progress on a number of vision tasks using Transformer networks. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Transformer models in the computer vision discipline. We start with an introduction to fundamental concepts behind the success of Transformers i.e., self-attention, large-scale pre-training, and bidirectional feature encoding. We then cover extensive applications of transformers in vision including popular recognition tasks (e.g., image classification, object detection, action recognition, and segmentation), generative modeling, multi-modal tasks (e.g., visual-question answering, visual reasoning, and visual grounding), video processing (e.g., activity recognition, video forecasting), low-level vision (e.g., image super-resolution, image enhancement, and colorization) and 3D analysis (e.g., point cloud classification and segmentation). We compare the respective advantages and limitations of popular techniques both in terms of architectural design and their experimental value. Finally, we provide an analysis on open research directions and possible future works. We hope this effort will ignite further interest in the community to solve current challenges towards the application of transformer models in computer vision.

Humans perceive the world by concurrently processing and fusing high-dimensional inputs from multiple modalities such as vision and audio. Machine perception models, in stark contrast, are typically modality-specific and optimised for unimodal benchmarks, and hence late-stage fusion of final representations or predictions from each modality (`late-fusion') is still a dominant paradigm for multimodal video classification. Instead, we introduce a novel transformer based architecture that uses `fusion bottlenecks' for modality fusion at multiple layers. Compared to traditional pairwise self-attention, our model forces information between different modalities to pass through a small number of bottleneck latents, requiring the model to collate and condense the most relevant information in each modality and only share what is necessary. We find that such a strategy improves fusion performance, at the same time reducing computational cost. We conduct thorough ablation studies, and achieve state-of-the-art results on multiple audio-visual classification benchmarks including Audioset, Epic-Kitchens and VGGSound. All code and models will be released.

While the Transformer architecture has become the de-facto standard for natural language processing tasks, its applications to computer vision remain limited. In vision, attention is either applied in conjunction with convolutional networks, or used to replace certain components of convolutional networks while keeping their overall structure in place. We show that this reliance on CNNs is not necessary and a pure transformer applied directly to sequences of image patches can perform very well on image classification tasks. When pre-trained on large amounts of data and transferred to multiple mid-sized or small image recognition benchmarks (ImageNet, CIFAR-100, VTAB, etc.), Vision Transformer (ViT) attains excellent results compared to state-of-the-art convolutional networks while requiring substantially fewer computational resources to train. 1

视觉变压器正在成为解决计算机视觉问题的强大工具。最近的技术还证明了超出图像域之外的变压器来解决许多与视频相关的任务的功效。其中，由于其广泛的应用，人类的行动识别是从研究界受到特别关注。本文提供了对动作识别的视觉变压器技术的首次全面调查。我们朝着这个方向分析并总结了现有文献和新兴文献，同时突出了适应变形金刚以进行动作识别的流行趋势。由于其专业应用，我们将这些方法统称为``动作变压器''。我们的文献综述根据其架构，方式和预期目标为动作变压器提供了适当的分类法。在动作变压器的背景下，我们探讨了编码时空数据，降低维度降低，框架贴片和时空立方体构造以及各种表示方法的技术。我们还研究了变压器层中时空注意的优化，以处理更长的序列，通常通过减少单个注意操作中的令牌数量。此外，我们还研究了不同的网络学习策略，例如自我监督和零局学习，以及它们对基于变压器的行动识别的相关损失。这项调查还总结了在具有动作变压器重要基准的评估度量评分方面取得的进步。最后，它提供了有关该研究方向的挑战，前景和未来途径的讨论。

Transformer models have shown great success handling long-range interactions, making them a promising tool for modeling video. However they lack inductive biases and scale quadratically with input length. These limitations are further exacerbated when dealing with the high dimensionality introduced with the temporal dimension. While there are surveys analyzing the advances of Transformers for vision, none focus on an in-depth analysis of video-specific designs. In this survey we analyze main contributions and trends of works leveraging Transformers to model video. Specifically, we delve into how videos are handled as input-level first. Then, we study the architectural changes made to deal with video more efficiently, reduce redundancy, re-introduce useful inductive biases, and capture long-term temporal dynamics. In addition we provide an overview of different training regimes and explore effective self-supervised learning strategies for video. Finally, we conduct a performance comparison on the most common benchmark for Video Transformers (i.e., action classification), finding them to outperform 3D ConvNets even with less computational complexity.

We present Multiscale Vision Transformers (MViT) for video and image recognition, by connecting the seminal idea of multiscale feature hierarchies with transformer models. Multiscale Transformers have several channel-resolution scale stages. Starting from the input resolution and a small channel dimension, the stages hierarchically expand the channel capacity while reducing the spatial resolution. This creates a multiscale pyramid of features with early layers operating at high spatial resolution to model simple low-level visual information, and deeper layers at spatially coarse, but complex, high-dimensional features. We evaluate this fundamental architectural prior for modeling the dense nature of visual signals for a variety of video recognition tasks where it outperforms concurrent vision transformers that rely on large scale external pre-training and are 5-10× more costly in computation and parameters. We further remove the temporal dimension and apply our model for image classification where it outperforms prior work on vision transformers. Code is available at: https: //github.com/facebookresearch/SlowFast.

变压器是一种基于关注的编码器解码器架构，彻底改变了自然语言处理领域。灵感来自这一重大成就，最近在将变形式架构调整到计算机视觉（CV）领域的一些开创性作品，这已经证明了他们对各种简历任务的有效性。依靠竞争力的建模能力，与现代卷积神经网络相比在本文中，我们已经为三百不同的视觉变压器进行了全面的审查，用于三个基本的CV任务（分类，检测和分割），提出了根据其动机，结构和使用情况组织这些方法的分类。 。由于培训设置和面向任务的差异，我们还在不同的配置上进行了评估了这些方法，以便于易于和直观的比较而不是各种基准。此外，我们已经揭示了一系列必不可少的，但可能使变压器能够从众多架构中脱颖而出，例如松弛的高级语义嵌入，以弥合视觉和顺序变压器之间的差距。最后，提出了三个未来的未来研究方向进行进一步投资。

视觉变压器（VIT）用作强大的视觉模型。与卷积神经网络不同，在前几年主导视觉研究，视觉变压器享有捕获数据中的远程依赖性的能力。尽管如此，任何变压器架构的组成部分，自我关注机制都存在高延迟和低效的内存利用，使其不太适合高分辨率输入图像。为了缓解这些缺点，分层视觉模型在非交错的窗口上局部使用自我关注。这种放松会降低输入尺寸的复杂性;但是，它限制了横窗相互作用，损害了模型性能。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的班次不变的本地注意层，称为查询和参加（QNA），其以重叠的方式聚集在本地输入，非常类似于卷积。 QNA背后的关键想法是介绍学习的查询，这允许快速高效地实现。我们通过将其纳入分层视觉变压器模型来验证我们的层的有效性。我们展示了速度和内存复杂性的改进，同时实现了与最先进的模型的可比准确性。最后，我们的图层尺寸尤其良好，窗口大小，需要高于X10的内存，而不是比现有方法更快。

Self-attention has the promise of improving computer vision systems due to parameter-independent scaling of receptive fields and content-dependent interactions, in contrast to parameter-dependent scaling and content-independent interactions of convolutions. Self-attention models have recently been shown to have encouraging improvements on accuracy-parameter trade-offs compared to baseline convolutional models such as ResNet-50. In this work, we aim to develop self-attention models that can outperform not just the canonical baseline models, but even the high-performing convolutional models. We propose two extensions to selfattention that, in conjunction with a more efficient implementation of self-attention, improve the speed, memory usage, and accuracy of these models. We leverage these improvements to develop a new self-attention model family, HaloNets, which reach state-of-the-art accuracies on the parameterlimited setting of the ImageNet classification benchmark. In preliminary transfer learning experiments, we find that HaloNet models outperform much larger models and have better inference performance. On harder tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, our simple local self-attention and convolutional hybrids show improvements over very strong baselines. These results mark another step in demonstrating the efficacy of self-attention models on settings traditionally dominated by convolutional models.

变压器在自然语言处理中的成功最近引起了计算机视觉领域的关注。由于能够学习长期依赖性，变压器已被用作广泛使用的卷积运算符的替代品。事实证明，这种替代者在许多任务中都取得了成功，其中几种最先进的方法依靠变压器来更好地学习。在计算机视觉中，3D字段还见证了使用变压器来增加3D卷积神经网络和多层感知器网络的增加。尽管许多调查都集中在视力中的变压器上，但由于与2D视觉相比，由于数据表示和处理的差异，3D视觉需要特别注意。在这项工作中，我们介绍了针对不同3D视觉任务的100多种变压器方法的系统和彻底审查，包括分类，细分，检测，完成，姿势估计等。我们在3D Vision中讨论了变形金刚的设计，该设计使其可以使用各种3D表示形式处理数据。对于每个应用程序，我们强调了基于变压器的方法的关键属性和贡献。为了评估这些方法的竞争力，我们将它们的性能与12个3D基准测试的常见非转化方法进行了比较。我们通过讨论3D视觉中变压器的不同开放方向和挑战来结束调查。除了提出的论文外，我们的目标是频繁更新最新的相关论文及其相应的实现：https：//github.com/lahoud/3d-vision-transformers。

我们呈现了基于纯变压器的视频分类模型，在图像分类中最近的近期成功进行了借鉴。我们的模型从输入视频中提取了时空令牌，然后由一系列变压器层编码。为了处理视频中遇到的令牌的长序列，我们提出了我们模型的几种有效的变体，它们将输入的空间和时间维构建。虽然已知基于变换器的模型只有在可用的大型训练数据集时才有效，但我们展示了我们如何在训练期间有效地规范模型，并利用预先训练的图像模型能够在相对小的数据集上训练。我们进行彻底的消融研究，并在包括动力学400和600，史诗厨房，东西的多个视频分类基准上实现最先进的结果，其中 - 基于深度3D卷积网络的现有方法表现出优先的方法。为了促进进一步的研究，我们在https://github.com/google-research/scenic/tree/main/scenic/projects/vivit发布代码

人类自然有效地在复杂的场景中找到突出区域。通过这种观察的动机，引入了计算机视觉中的注意力机制，目的是模仿人类视觉系统的这一方面。这种注意机制可以基于输入图像的特征被视为动态权重调整过程。注意机制在许多视觉任务中取得了巨大的成功，包括图像分类，对象检测，语义分割，视频理解，图像生成，3D视觉，多模态任务和自我监督的学习。在本调查中，我们对计算机愿景中的各种关注机制进行了全面的审查，并根据渠道注意，空间关注，暂时关注和分支注意力进行分类。相关的存储库https：//github.com/menghaoguo/awesome-vision-tions致力于收集相关的工作。我们还建议了未来的注意机制研究方向。

We present a convolution-free approach to video classification built exclusively on self-attention over space and time. Our method, named "TimeSformer," adapts the standard Transformer architecture to video by enabling spatiotemporal feature learning directly from a sequence of framelevel patches. Our experimental study compares different self-attention schemes and suggests that "divided attention," where temporal attention and spatial attention are separately applied within each block, leads to the best video classification accuracy among the design choices considered. Despite the radically new design, TimeSformer achieves state-of-the-art results on several action recognition benchmarks, including the best reported accuracy on Kinetics-400 and Kinetics-600. Finally, compared to 3D convolutional networks, our model is faster to train, it can achieve dramatically higher test efficiency (at a small drop in accuracy), and it can also be applied to much longer video clips (over one minute long). Code and models are available at: https://github.com/ facebookresearch/TimeSformer.

哥内克人Sentinel Imagery的纯粹卷的可用性为使用深度学习的大尺度创造了新的土地利用陆地覆盖（Lulc）映射的机会。虽然在这种大型数据集上培训是一个非琐碎的任务。在这项工作中，我们试验Lulc Image分类和基准不同最先进模型的Bigearthnet数据集，包括卷积神经网络，多层感知，视觉变压器，高效导通和宽残余网络（WRN）架构。我们的目标是利用分类准确性，培训时间和推理率。我们提出了一种基于用于网络深度，宽度和输入数据分辨率的WRNS复合缩放的高效导通的框架，以有效地训练和测试不同的模型设置。我们设计一种新颖的缩放WRN架构，增强了有效的通道注意力机制。我们提出的轻量级模型具有较小的培训参数，实现所有19个LULC类的平均F分类准确度达到4.5％，并且验证了我们使用的resnet50最先进的模型速度快两倍作为基线。我们提供超过50种培训的型号，以及我们在多个GPU节点上分布式培训的代码。

多层erceptron（MLP），作为出现的第一个神经网络结构，是一个大的击中。但是由硬件计算能力和数据集的大小限制，它一旦沉没了数十年。在此期间，我们目睹了从手动特征提取到带有局部接收领域的CNN的范式转变，以及基于自我关注机制的全球接收领域的变换。今年（2021年），随着MLP混合器的推出，MLP已重新进入敏捷，并吸引了计算机视觉界的广泛研究。与传统的MLP进行比较，它变得更深，但改变了完全扁平化以补丁平整的输入。鉴于其高性能和较少的需求对视觉特定的感应偏见，但社区无法帮助奇迹，将MLP，最简单的结构与全球接受领域，但没有关注，成为一个新的电脑视觉范式吗？为了回答这个问题，本调查旨在全面概述视觉深层MLP模型的最新发展。具体而言，我们从微妙的子模块设计到全局网络结构，我们审查了这些视觉深度MLP。我们比较了不同网络设计的接收领域，计算复杂性和其他特性，以便清楚地了解MLP的开发路径。调查表明，MLPS的分辨率灵敏度和计算密度仍未得到解决，纯MLP逐渐发展朝向CNN样。我们建议，目前的数据量和计算能力尚未准备好接受纯的MLP，并且人工视觉指导仍然很重要。最后，我们提供了开放的研究方向和可能的未来作品的分析。我们希望这项努力能够点燃社区的进一步兴趣，并鼓励目前为神经网络进行更好的视觉量身定制设计。

We present a simple approach which can turn a ViT encoder into an efficient video model, which can seamlessly work with both image and video inputs. By sparsely sampling the inputs, the model is able to do training and inference from both inputs. The model is easily scalable and can be adapted to large-scale pre-trained ViTs without requiring full finetuning. The model achieves SOTA results and the code will be open-sourced.

我们可以训练一个能够处理多个模态和数据集的单个变压器模型，同时分享几乎所有的学习参数？我们呈现Polyvit，一种培训的模型，在图像，音频和视频上接受了讲述这个问题。通过在单一的方式上培训不同的任务，我们能够提高每个任务的准确性，并在5个标准视频和音频分类数据集中实现最先进的结果。多种模式和任务上的共同训练Polyvit会导致一个更具参数效率的模型，并学习遍历多个域的表示。此外，我们展示了实施的共同培训和实用，因为我们不需要调整数据集的每个组合的超级参数，但可以简单地调整来自标准的单一任务培训。