Vision Transformers: Attention Across Scale And Modality
Imagine a world where Computers see images not as pixels, but as a sequence of words, much like we process sentences. This paradigm shift is happening thanks to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a revolutionary approach in computer vision that's borrowing heavily from the natural language processing (NLP) playbook. Forget the complex convolutions of traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs); ViTs are opening up new possibilities for image recognition, object detection, and more, proving that sometimes, the best way to see is to "speak" in a new language.
What are Vision Transformers?
The Core Idea
Vision Transformers, at their heart, are about applying the transformer architecture, which has achieved remarkable success in NLP, to the realm of image analysis. Instead of processing images t...

