LuoweiZhou/Awesome-Transformer-Attention

An ultimately comprehensive paper list of Vision Transformer/Attention, including papers, codes, and related websites

Ultimate-Awesome-Transformer-Attention

This repo contains a comprehensive paper list of Vision Transformer & Attention, including papers, codes, and related websites.
This list is maintained by Min-Hung Chen. (Actively keep updating)

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Overview

• Image Classification / Backbone
  • Replace Conv w/ Attention
    • Pure Attention
    • Conv-stem + Attention
    • Conv + Attention
  • Vision Transformer
    • General Vision Transformer
    • Efficient Vision Transformer
    • Conv + Transformer
    • Training + Transformer
    • Robustness + Transformer
    • Model Compression + Transformer
  • Attention-Free
    • MLP-Series
    • Other Attention-Free
  • Analysis for Transformer
• Detection
  • Object Detection
  • 3D Object Detection
  • Multi-Modal Detection
  • Salient Object Detection
  • Other Detection Tasks
• Segmentation
  • Semantic Segmentation
  • Object Segmentation
  • Other Segmentation Tasks
• Video (High-level)
  • Action Recognition
  • Action Detection/Localization
  • Action Prediction
  • Video Object Segmentation
  • Other Video Tasks
• Multi-Modality
  • VQA / Captioning
  • Visual Grounding
  • Multi-Modal Representation Learning
  • Multi-Modal Retrieval
  • Visual Document Understanding
  • Scene Graph
  • Other Multi-Modal Tasks
• Other High-level Vision Tasks
  • Point Cloud
  • Pose Estimation
  • Tracking
  • Re-ID
  • Face
  • Neural Architecture Search
• Transfer / X-Supervised / X-Shot Learning
• Low-level Vision Tasks
  • Image Restoration
  • Video Restoration
  • Inpainting/Completion/Outpainting
  • Image Generation
  • Video Generation
  • Transfer/Translation/Manipulation
  • Other Low-Level Tasks
• Reinforcement Learning
  • Navigation
  • Other RL Tasks
• Medical
  • Medical Segmentation
  • Medical Classification
  • Medical Detection
  • Medical Reconstruction
  • Medical Low-Level Vision
  • Medical Others
• Other Tasks
• Attention Mechanisms in Vision/NLP
  • Attention for Vision
  • NLP
  • Both
  • Others
• Citation
• References

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Image Classification / Backbone

Replace Conv w/ Attention

Pure Attention

• LR-Net: "Local Relation Networks for Image Recognition", ICCV, 2019 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch (gan3sh500)]
• SASA: "Stand-Alone Self-Attention in Vision Models", NeurIPS, 2019 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch-1 (leaderj1001)][PyTorch-2 (MerHS)]
• Axial-Transformer: "Axial Attention in Multidimensional Transformers", arXiv, 2019 (rejected by ICLR 2020) (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• SAN: "Exploring Self-attention for Image Recognition", CVPR, 2020 (CUHK + Intel). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Axial-DeepLab: "Axial-DeepLab: Stand-Alone Axial-Attention for Panoptic Segmentation", ECCV, 2020 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch]

Conv-stem + Attention

• GSA: "Global Self-Attention Networks for Image Recognition", arXiv, 2020 (rejected by ICLR 2021) (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• HaloNet: "Scaling Local Self-Attention For Parameter Efficient Visual Backbones", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• CoTNet: "Contextual Transformer Networks for Visual Recognition", CVPRW, 2021 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransCNN: "Transformer in Convolutional Neural Networks", arXiv, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper]

Conv + Attention

• AA: "Attention Augmented Convolutional Networks", ICCV, 2019 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (leaderj1001)][Tensorflow (titu1994)]
• GCNet: "Global Context Networks", ICCVW, 2019 (& TPAMI 2020) (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LambdaNetworks: "LambdaNetworks: Modeling long-range Interactions without Attention", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch-1 (lucidrains)][PyTorch-2 (leaderj1001)]
• BoTNet: "Bottleneck Transformers for Visual Recognition", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch-1 (lucidrains)][PyTorch-2 (leaderj1001)]
• GCT: "Gaussian Context Transformer", CVPR, 2021 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
• CoAtNet: "CoAtNet: Marrying Convolution and Attention for All Data Sizes", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper]

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Vision Transformer

General Vision Transformer

• ViT: "An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• Perceiver: "Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention", ICML, 2021 (DeepMind). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• PiT: "Rethinking Spatial Dimensions of Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (NAVER). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VT: "Visual Transformers: Where Do Transformers Really Belong in Vision Models?", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch (tahmid0007)]
• PVT: "Pyramid Vision Transformer: A Versatile Backbone for Dense Prediction without Convolutions", ICCV, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• iRPE: "Rethinking and Improving Relative Position Encoding for Vision Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CaiT: "Going deeper with Image Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Swin-Transformer: "Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch (berniwal)][Code]
• T2T-ViT: "Tokens-to-Token ViT: Training Vision Transformers from Scratch on ImageNet", ICCV, 2021 (Yitu). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FFNBN: "Leveraging Batch Normalization for Vision Transformers", ICCVW, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• DPT: "DPT: Deformable Patch-based Transformer for Visual Recognition", ACMMM, 2021 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Focal: "Focal Attention for Long-Range Interactions in Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• XCiT: "XCiT: Cross-Covariance Image Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• Twins: "Twins: Revisiting Spatial Attention Design in Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Meituan). [Paper][PyTorch)]
• ARM: "Blending Anti-Aliasing into Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper][GitHub (in construction)]
• DVT: "Not All Images are Worth 16x16 Words: Dynamic Vision Transformers with Adaptive Sequence Length", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Aug-S: "Augmented Shortcuts for Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• TNT: "Transformer in Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper][PyTorch][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• ViTAE: "ViTAE: Vision Transformer Advanced by Exploring Intrinsic Inductive Bias", NeurIPS, 2021 (The University of Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DeepViT: "DeepViT: Towards Deeper Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (NUS + ByteDance). [Paper][Code]
• So-ViT: "So-ViT: Mind Visual Tokens for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LV-ViT: "All Tokens Matter: Token Labeling for Training Better Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
• NesT: "Aggregating Nested Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• LIT: "Less is More: Pay Less Attention in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Monash University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MSG-Transformer: "MSG-Transformer: Exchanging Local Spatial Information by Manipulating Messenger Tokens", arXiv, 2021 (Huazhong University of Science & Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• KVT: "KVT: k-NN Attention for Boosting Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• Refined-ViT: "Refiner: Refining Self-attention for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (NUS, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Shuffle-Transformer: "Shuffle Transformer: Rethinking Spatial Shuffle for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper]
• ViT-G: "Scaling Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• CAT: "CAT: Cross Attention in Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (KuaiShou). [Paper][PyTorch]
• V-MoE: "Scaling Vision with Sparse Mixture of Experts", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• P2T: "P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding", arXiv, 2021 (Nankai University). [Paper]
• PvTv2: "PVTv2: Improved Baselines with Pyramid Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CSWin: "CSWin Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Cross-Shaped Windows", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LG-Transformer: "Local-to-Global Self-Attention in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (IIAI, UAE). [Paper]
• ViP: "Visual Parser: Representing Part-whole Hierarchies with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper]
• Scaled-ReLU: "Scaled ReLU Matters for Training Vision Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• DTN: "Dynamic Token Normalization Improves Vision Transformer", ICLR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• RegionViT: "RegionViT: Regional-to-Local Attention for Vision Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (MIT-IBM Watson). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CrossFormer: "CrossFormer: A Versatile Vision Transformer Based on Cross-scale Attention", ICLR, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Scaling the Depth of Vision Transformers via the Fourier Domain Analysis", ICLR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper]
• MPViT: "MPViT: Multi-Path Vision Transformer for Dense Prediction", CVPR, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Diverse-ViT: "The Principle of Diversity: Training Stronger Vision Transformers Calls for Reducing All Levels of Redundancy", CVPR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DW-ViT: "Beyond Fixation: Dynamic Window Visual Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Dark Matter AI, China). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• MixFormer: "MixFormer: Mixing Features across Windows and Dimensions", CVPR, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper][Paddle]
• BViT: "BViT: Broad Attention based Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• PyramidTNT: "PyramidTNT: Improved Transformer-in-Transformer Baselines with Pyramid Architecture", arXiv, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DAT: "Vision Transformer with Deformable Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• O-ViT: "O-ViT: Orthogonal Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (East China Normal University). [Paper]
• MOA-Transformer: "Aggregating Global Features into Local Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (University of Kansas). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BOAT: "BOAT: Bilateral Local Attention Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Baidu + HKU). [Paper]
• ViTAEv2: "ViTAEv2: Vision Transformer Advanced by Exploring Inductive Bias for Image Recognition and Beyond", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper]
• VAN: "Visual Attention Network", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HiP: "Hierarchical Perceiver", arXiv, 2022 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• PatchMerger: "Learning to Merge Tokens in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• DGT: "Dynamic Group Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Dynamic Group Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• ScalableViT: "ScalableViT: Rethinking the Context-oriented Generalization of Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• MaxViT: "MaxViT: Multi-Axis Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• DaViT: "DaViT: Dual Attention Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][PyTorch]

Efficient Vision Transformer

• DeiT: "Training data-efficient image transformers & distillation through attention", ICML, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ConViT: "ConViT: Improving Vision Transformers with Soft Convolutional Inductive Biases", ICML, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][Code]
• ?: "Improving the Efficiency of Transformers for Resource-Constrained Devices", DSD, 2021 (NavInfo Europe, Netherlands). [Paper]
• PS-ViT: "Vision Transformer with Progressive Sampling", ICCV, 2021 (CPII). [Paper]
• HVT: "Scalable Visual Transformers with Hierarchical Pooling", ICCV, 2021 (Monash University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CrossViT: "CrossViT: Cross-Attention Multi-Scale Vision Transformer for Image Classification", ICCV, 2021 (MIT-IBM). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ViL: "Multi-Scale Vision Longformer: A New Vision Transformer for High-Resolution Image Encoding", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Visformer: "Visformer: The Vision-friendly Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MultiExitViT: "Multi-Exit Vision Transformer for Dynamic Inference", BMVC, 2021 (Aarhus University, Denmark). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• SViTE: "Chasing Sparsity in Vision Transformers: An End-to-End Exploration", NeurIPS, 2021 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DGE: "Dynamic Grained Encoder for Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Megvii). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GG-Transformer: "Glance-and-Gaze Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (JHU). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• DynamicViT: "DynamicViT: Efficient Vision Transformers with Dynamic Token Sparsification", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• ResT: "ResT: An Efficient Transformer for Visual Recognition", NeurIPS, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Adder-Transformer: "Adder Attention for Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• SOFT: "SOFT: Softmax-free Transformer with Linear Complexity", NeurIPS, 2021 (Fudan). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• IA-RED²: "IA-RED²: Interpretability-Aware Redundancy Reduction for Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (MIT-IBM). [Paper][Website]
• LocalViT: "LocalViT: Bringing Locality to Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CCT: "Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (University of Oregon). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DiversePatch: "Vision Transformers with Patch Diversification", arXiv, 2021 (UT Austin + Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SL-ViT: "Single-Layer Vision Transformers for More Accurate Early Exits with Less Overhead", arXiv, 2021 (Aarhus University). [Paper]
• PS-ViT: "Patch Slimming for Efficient Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• ?: "Multi-Exit Vision Transformer for Dynamic Inference", arXiv, 2021 (Aarhus University, Denmark). [Paper]
• DeiT-Manifold: "Efficient Vision Transformers via Fine-Grained Manifold Distillation", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• ViX: "Vision Xformers: Efficient Attention for Image Classification", arXiv, 2021 (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay). [Paper]
• Transformer-LS: "Long-Short Transformer: Efficient Transformers for Language and Vision", NeurIPS, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• WideNet: "Go Wider Instead of Deeper", arXiv, 2021 (NUS). [Paper]
• Armour: "Armour: Generalizable Compact Self-Attention for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Arm). [Paper]
• Mobile-Former: "Mobile-Former: Bridging MobileNet and Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• IPE: "Exploring and Improving Mobile Level Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (CUHK). [Paper]
• DS-Net++: "DS-Net++: Dynamic Weight Slicing for Efficient Inference in CNNs and Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Monash University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UFO-ViT: "UFO-ViT: High Performance Linear Vision Transformer without Softmax", arXiv, 2021 (Kakao). [Paper]
• Token-Pooling: "Token Pooling in Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Apple). [Paper]
• SReT: "Sliced Recursive Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (CMU + MBZUAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Evo-ViT: "Evo-ViT: Slow-Fast Token Evolution for Dynamic Vision Transformer", AAAI, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PS-Attention: "Pale Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Pale-Shaped Attention", AAAI, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper][Paddle]
• ShiftViT: "When Shift Operation Meets Vision Transformer: An Extremely Simple Alternative to Attention Mechanism", AAAI, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EViT: "Not All Patches are What You Need: Expediting Vision Transformers via Token Reorganizations", ICLR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• QuadTree: "QuadTree Attention for Vision Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (Simon Fraser + Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Anti-Oversmoothing: "Anti-Oversmoothing in Deep Vision Transformers via the Fourier Domain Analysis: From Theory to Practice", ICLR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TerViT: "TerViT: An Efficient Ternary Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• MT-ViT: "Multi-Tailed Vision Transformer for Efficient Inference", arXiv, 2022 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
• ViT-P: "ViT-P: Rethinking Data-efficient Vision Transformers from Locality", arXiv, 2022 (Chongqing University of Technology). [Paper]
• CF-ViT: "Coarse-to-Fine Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Xiamen University + Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EIT: "EIT: Efficiently Lead Inductive Biases to ViT", arXiv, 2022 (Academy of Military Sciences, China). [Paper]
• SepViT: "SepViT: Separable Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• ATS: "Adaptive Inverse Transform Sampling For Efficient Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]

Conv + Transformer

• LeViT: "LeViT: a Vision Transformer in ConvNet's Clothing for Faster Inference", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CeiT: "Incorporating Convolution Designs into Visual Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch (rishikksh20)]
• Conformer: "Conformer: Local Features Coupling Global Representations for Visual Recognition", ICCV, 2021 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CoaT: "Co-Scale Conv-Attentional Image Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (UCSD). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CvT: "CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code]
• ViTc: "Early Convolutions Help Transformers See Better", NeurIPS, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• ConTNet: "ConTNet: Why not use convolution and transformer at the same time?", arXiv, 2021 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CMT: "CMT: Convolutional Neural Networks Meet Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• SPACH: "A Battle of Network Structures: An Empirical Study of CNN, Transformer, and MLP", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• MobileViT: "MobileViT: Light-weight, General-purpose, and Mobile-friendly Vision Transformer", ICLR, 2022 (Apple). [Paper]
• CXV: "Convolutional Xformers for Vision", arXiv, 2022 (IIT Bombay). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ConvMixer: "Patches Are All You Need?", arXiv, 2022 (CMU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UniFormer: "UniFormer: Unifying Convolution and Self-attention for Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EdgeFormer: "EdgeFormer: Improving Light-weight ConvNets by Learning from Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (?). [Paper]

Training + Transformer

• iGPT: "Generative Pretraining From Pixels", ICML, 2020 (OpenAI). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• MoCo-V3: "An Empirical Study of Training Self-Supervised Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• DINO: "Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• drloc: "Efficient Training of Visual Transformers with Small Datasets", NeurIPS, 2021 (University of Trento). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CARE: "Revitalizing CNN Attentions via Transformers in Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MST: "MST: Masked Self-Supervised Transformer for Visual Representation", NeurIPS, 2021 (SenseTime). [Paper]
• SiT: "SiT: Self-supervised Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (University of Surrey). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MoBY: "Self-Supervised Learning with Swin Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][Pytorch]
• ?: "Investigating Transfer Learning Capabilities of Vision Transformers and CNNs by Fine-Tuning a Single Trainable Block", arXiv, 2021 (Pune Institute of Computer Technology, India). [Paper]
• MaskFeat: "Masked Feature Prediction for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• Annotations-1.3B: "Billion-Scale Pretraining with Vision Transformers for Multi-Task Visual Representations", WACV, 2022 (Pinterest). [Paper]
• BEiT: "BEiT: BERT Pre-Training of Image Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EsViT: "Efficient Self-supervised Vision Transformers for Representation Learning", ICLR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• iBOT: "Image BERT Pre-training with Online Tokenizer", ICLR, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AutoProg: "Automated Progressive Learning for Efficient Training of Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Monash University, Australia). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MAE: "Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners", CVPR, 2022 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch][PyTorch (pengzhiliang)]
• PeCo: "PeCo: Perceptual Codebook for BERT Pre-training of Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• IDMM: "Training Vision Transformers with Only 2040 Images", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
• RePre: "RePre: Improving Self-Supervised Vision Transformer with Reconstructive Pre-training", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• Beyond-Masking: "Beyond Masking: Demystifying Token-Based Pre-Training for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Kronecker-Adaptation: "Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• HAT: "Improving Vision Transformers by Revisiting High-frequency Components", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• DILEMMA: "DILEMMA: Self-Supervised Shape and Texture Learning with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Bern, Switzerland). [Paper]

Robustness + Transformer

• ViT-Robustness: "Understanding Robustness of Transformers for Image Classification", ICCV, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• SAGA: "On the Robustness of Vision Transformers to Adversarial Examples", ICCV, 2021 (University of Connecticut). [Paper]
• ?: "Adversarial Robustness Comparison of Vision Transformer and MLP-Mixer to CNNs", BMVC, 2021 (KAIST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ViTs-vs-CNNs: "Are Transformers More Robust Than CNNs?", NeurIPS, 2021 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RVT: "Rethinking the Design Principles of Robust Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
• T-CNN: "Transformed CNNs: recasting pre-trained convolutional layers with self-attention", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• Transformer-Attack: "On the Adversarial Robustness of Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Xi'an Jiaotong). [Paper]
• ?: "Reveal of Vision Transformers Robustness against Adversarial Attacks", arXiv, 2021 (University of Rennes). [Paper]
• ?: "On Improving Adversarial Transferability of Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (ANU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Exploring Corruption Robustness: Inductive Biases in Vision Transformers and MLP-Mixers", arXiv, 2021 (University of Pittsburgh). [Paper]
• Token-Attack: "Adversarial Token Attacks on Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (New York University). [Paper]
• Smooth-ViT: "Certified Patch Robustness via Smoothed Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (MIT). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Discrete Representations Strengthen Vision Transformer Robustness", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "Vision Transformers are Robust Learners", AAAI, 2022 (PyImageSearch + IBM). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• PNA: "Towards Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Vision Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Fudan + Maryland). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MIA-Former: "MIA-Former: Efficient and Robust Vision Transformers via Multi-grained Input-Adaptation", AAAI, 2022 (Rice University). [Paper]
• Patch-Fool: "Patch-Fool: Are Vision Transformers Always Robust Against Adversarial Perturbations?", ICLR, 2022 (Rice University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Generalization-Enhanced-ViT: "Delving Deep into the Generalization of Vision Transformers under Distribution Shifts", CVPR, 2022 (Beihang University + NTU, Singapore). [Paper]
• ECViT: "Towards Practical Certifiable Patch Defense with Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent).[Paper]
• Attention-Fool: "Give Me Your Attention: Dot-Product Attention Considered Harmful for Adversarial Patch Robustness", CVPR, 2022 (Bosch). [Paper]
• Memory-Token: "Fine-tuning Image Transformers using Learnable Memory", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "Are Vision Transformers Robust to Spurious Correlations?", arXiv, 2022 (UW-Madison). [Paper]

Model Compression + Transformer

• ViT-quant: "Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• VTP: "Visual Transformer Pruning", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• NViT: "NViT: Vision Transformer Compression and Parameter Redistribution", arXiv, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper]
• MD-ViT: "Multi-Dimensional Model Compression of Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Princeton). [Paper]
• PTQ4ViT: "PTQ4ViT: Post-Training Quantization Framework for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper]
• FQ-ViT: "FQ-ViT: Fully Quantized Vision Transformer without Retraining", arXiv, 2021 (MEGVII). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UVC: "Unified Visual Transformer Compression", ICLR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Q-ViT: "Q-ViT: Fully Differentiable Quantization for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (MEGVII). [Paper]
• VAQF: "VAQF: Fully Automatic Software-Hardware Co-Design Framework for Low-Bit Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Northeastern University). [Paper]
• PSAQ-ViT: "Patch Similarity Aware Data-Free Quantization for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• VTP: "Vision Transformer Compression with Structured Pruning and Low Rank Approximation", arXiv, 2022 (UCLA). [Paper]

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Attention-Free

MLP-Series

• RepMLP: "RepMLP: Re-parameterizing Convolutions into Fully-connected Layers for Image Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (MEGVII). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EAMLP: "Beyond Self-attention: External Attention using Two Linear Layers for Visual Tasks", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua University). [Paper]
• Forward-Only: "Do You Even Need Attention? A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet", arXiv, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ResMLP: "ResMLP: Feedforward networks for image classification with data-efficient training", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• ?: "Can Attention Enable MLPs To Catch Up With CNNs?", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• ViP: "Vision Permutator: A Permutable MLP-Like Architecture for Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (NUS, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CCS: "Rethinking Token-Mixing MLP for MLP-based Vision Backbone", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• S²-MLPv2: "S²-MLPv2: Improved Spatial-Shift MLP Architecture for Vision", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• RaftMLP: "RaftMLP: Do MLP-based Models Dream of Winning Over Computer Vision?", arXiv, 2021 (Rikkyo University, Japan). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Hire-MLP: "Hire-MLP: Vision MLP via Hierarchical Rearrangement", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
• Sparse-MLP: "Sparse-MLP: A Fully-MLP Architecture with Conditional Computation", arXiv, 2021 (NUS). [Paper]
• ConvMLP: "ConvMLP: Hierarchical Convolutional MLPs for Vision", arXiv, 2021 (University of Oregon). [Paper][PyTorch]
• sMLP: "Sparse MLP for Image Recognition: Is Self-Attention Really Necessary?", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• MLP-Mixer: "MLP-Mixer: An all-MLP Architecture for Vision", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][PyTorch-1 (lucidrains)][PyTorch-2 (rishikksh20)]
• gMLP: "Pay Attention to MLPs", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (antonyvigouret)]
• S²-MLP: "S²-MLP: Spatial-Shift MLP Architecture for Vision", WACV, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• CycleMLP: "CycleMLP: A MLP-like Architecture for Dense Prediction", ICLR, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AS-MLP: "AS-MLP: An Axial Shifted MLP Architecture for Vision", ICLR, 2022 (ShanghaiTech University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Wave-MLP: "An Image Patch is a Wave: Quantum Inspired Vision MLP", CVPR, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MS-MLP: "Mixing and Shifting: Exploiting Global and Local Dependencies in Vision MLPs", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• ActiveMLP: "ActiveMLP: An MLP-like Architecture with Active Token Mixer", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]

Other Attention-Free

• PoolFormer: "MetaFormer is Actually What You Need for Vision", CVPR, 2022 (Sea AI Lab). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FocalNet: "Focal Modulation Networks", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Analysis for Transformer

• Attention-CNN: "On the Relationship between Self-Attention and Convolutional Layers", ICLR, 2020 (EPFL). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• Transformer-Explainability: "Transformer Interpretability Beyond Attention Visualization", CVPR, 2021 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Are Convolutional Neural Networks or Transformers more like human vision?", CogSci, 2021 (Princeton). [Paper]
• ?: "ConvNets vs. Transformers: Whose Visual Representations are More Transferable?", ICCVW, 2021 (HKU). [Paper]
• ?: "Do Vision Transformers See Like Convolutional Neural Networks?", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "Intriguing Properties of Vision Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (MBZUAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FoveaTer: "FoveaTer: Foveated Transformer for Image Classification", arXiv, 2021 (UCSB). [Paper]
• ?: "Demystifying Local Vision Transformer: Sparse Connectivity, Weight Sharing, and Dynamic Weight", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• ?: "Revisiting the Calibration of Modern Neural Networks", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "How to train your ViT? Data, Augmentation, and Regularization in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][PyTorch (rwightman)]
• ?: "What Makes for Hierarchical Vision Transformer?", arXiv, 2021 (Horizon Robotic). [Paper]
• ?: "Visualizing Paired Image Similarity in Transformer Networks", WACV, 2022 (Temple University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FDSL: "Can Vision Transformers Learn without Natural Images?", AAAI, 2022 (AIST). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• AlterNet: "How Do Vision Transformers Work?", ICLR, 2022 (Yonsei University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "When Vision Transformers Outperform ResNets without Pretraining or Strong Data Augmentations", ICLR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• ?: "On the Connection between Local Attention and Dynamic Depth-wise Convolution", ICLR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• AWD-ViT: "Visualizing and Understanding Patch Interactions in Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (JD). [Paper]
• ?: "Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
• ?: "CNNs and Transformers Perceive Hybrid Images Similar to Humans", arXiv, 2022 (Quintic AI, CA). [Paper][Code]

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Detection

Object Detection

• CNN-based backbone:
  • DETR: "End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers", ECCV, 2020 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Deformable DETR: "Deformable DETR: Deformable Transformers for End-to-End Object Detection", ICLR, 2021 (SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • UP-DETR: "UP-DETR: Unsupervised Pre-training for Object Detection with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SMCA: "Fast Convergence of DETR with Spatially Modulated Co-Attention", ICCV, 2021 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Conditional-DETR: "Conditional DETR for Fast Training Convergence", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
  • PnP-DETR: "PnP-DETR: Towards Efficient Visual Analysis with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Yitu). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • TSP: "Rethinking Transformer-based Set Prediction for Object Detection", ICCV, 2021 (CMU). [Paper]
  • Dynamic-DETR: "Dynamic DETR: End-to-End Object Detection With Dynamic Attention", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
  • ViT-YOLO: "ViT-YOLO:Transformer-Based YOLO for Object Detection", ICCVW, 2021 (Xidian University). [Paper]
  • ACT: "End-to-End Object Detection with Adaptive Clustering Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (Peking + CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DIL-ViT: "Paying Attention to Varying Receptive Fields: Object Detection with Atrous Filters and Vision Transformers", BMVC, 2021 (Monash University Malaysia). [Paper]
  • Efficient-DETR: "Efficient DETR: Improving End-to-End Object Detector with Dense Prior", arXiv, 2021 (Megvii). [Paper]
  • CA-FPN: "Content-Augmented Feature Pyramid Network with Light Linear Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • DETReg: "DETReg: Unsupervised Pretraining with Region Priors for Object Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Tel-Aviv + Berkeley). [Paper][Website]
  • GQPos: "Guiding Query Position and Performing Similar Attention for Transformer-Based Detection Heads", arXiv, 2021 (MEGVII). [Paper]
  • Anchor-DETR: "Anchor DETR: Query Design for Transformer-Based Detector", AAAI, 2022 (MEGVII). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Sparse-DETR: "Sparse DETR: Efficient End-to-End Object Detection with Learnable Sparsity", ICLR, 2022 (Kakao). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DAB-DETR: "DAB-DETR: Dynamic Anchor Boxes are Better Queries for DETR", ICLR, 2022 (IDEA, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • DN-DETR: "DN-DETR: Accelerate DETR Training by Introducing Query DeNoising", CVPR, 2022 (International Digital Economy Academy, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • SAM-DETR: "Accelerating DETR Convergence via Semantic-Aligned Matching", CVPR, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
  • AdaMixer: "AdaMixer: A Fast-Converging Query-Based Object Detector", CVPR, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • KA: "Knowledge Amalgamation for Object Detection with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
  • DE-DETR: "Towards Data-Efficient Detection Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (JD). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MIMDet: "Unleashing Vanilla Vision Transformer with Masked Image Modeling for Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Transformer-based backbone:
  • ViT-FRCNN: "Toward Transformer-Based Object Detection", arXiv, 2020 (Pinterest). [Paper]
  • WB-DETR: "WB-DETR: Transformer-Based Detector Without Backbone", ICCV, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • YOLOS: "You Only Look at One Sequence: Rethinking Transformer in Vision through Object Detection", NeurIPS, 2021 (Horizon Robotics). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • UViT: "A Simple Single-Scale Vision Transformer for Object Localization and Instance Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • ?: "Benchmarking Detection Transfer Learning with Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
  • ViDT: "ViDT: An Efficient and Effective Fully Transformer-based Object Detector", ICLR, 2022 (NAVER). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • FP-DETR: "FP-DETR: Detection Transformer Advanced by Fully Pre-training", ICLR, 2022 (USTC). [Paper]
  • D²ETR: "D²ETR: Decoder-Only DETR with Computationally Efficient Cross-Scale Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • DINO: "DINO: DETR with Improved DeNoising Anchor Boxes for End-to-End Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (IDEA, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • ViTDet: "Exploring Plain Vision Transformer Backbones for Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]

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3D Object Detection

• AST-GRU: "LiDAR-based Online 3D Video Object Detection with Graph-based Message Passing and Spatiotemporal Transformer Attention", CVPR, 2020 (Baidu). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Pointformer: "3D Object Detection with Pointformer", arXiv, 2020 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• CT3D: "Improving 3D Object Detection with Channel-wise Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Group-Free-3D: "Group-Free 3D Object Detection via Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VoTr: "Voxel Transformer for 3D Object Detection", ICCV, 2021 (CUHK + NUS). [Paper]
• 3DETR: "An End-to-End Transformer Model for 3D Object Detection", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• DETR3D: "DETR3D: 3D Object Detection from Multi-view Images via 3D-to-2D Queries", CoRL, 2021 (MIT). [Paper]
• M3DETR: "M3DeTR: Multi-representation, Multi-scale, Mutual-relation 3D Object Detection with Transformers", WACV, 2022 (University of Maryland). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SST: "Embracing Single Stride 3D Object Detector with Sparse Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MonoDTR: "MonoDTR: Monocular 3D Object Detection with Depth-Aware Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (NTU). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• VoxSeT: "Voxel Set Transformer: A Set-to-Set Approach to 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds", CVPR, 2022 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransFusion: "TransFusion: Robust LiDAR-Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (HKUST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CAT-Det: "CAT-Det: Contrastively Augmented Transformer for Multi-modal 3D Object Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• PETR: "PETR: Position Embedding Transformation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (MEGVII). [Paper]
• MonoDETR: "MonoDETR: Depth-aware Transformer for Monocular 3D Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Laboratory). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Multi-Modal Detection

• MDETR: "MDETR - Modulated Detection for End-to-End Multi-Modal Understanding", ICCV, 2021 (NYU). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• FETNet: "FETNet: Feature Exchange Transformer Network for RGB-D Object Detection", BMVC, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• MEDUSA: "Exploiting Scene Depth for Object Detection with Multimodal Transformers", BMVC, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch]
• StrucTexT: "StrucTexT: Structured Text Understanding with Multi-Modal Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• simCrossTrans: "simCrossTrans: A Simple Cross-Modality Transfer Learning for Object Detection with ConvNets or Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (The City University of New York). [Paper][PyTorch]
• X-DETR: "X-DETR: A Versatile Architecture for Instance-wise Vision-Language Tasks", arXiv, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]

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Salient Object Detection

• VST: "Visual Saliency Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Northwestern Polytechincal University). [Paper]
• ?: "Learning Generative Vision Transformer with Energy-Based Latent Space for Saliency Prediction", NeurIPS, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• SwinNet: "SwinNet: Swin Transformer drives edge-aware RGB-D and RGB-T salient object detection", TCSVT, 2021 (Anhui University). [Paper][Code]
• SOD-Transformer: "Transformer Transforms Salient Object Detection and Camouflaged Object Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Northwestern Polytechnical University). [Paper]
• GLSTR: "Unifying Global-Local Representations in Salient Object Detection with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (South China University of Technology). [Paper]
• TriTransNet: "TriTransNet: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Triplet Transformer Embedding Network", arXiv, 2021 (Anhui University). [Paper]
• AbiU-Net: "Boosting Salient Object Detection with Transformer-based Asymmetric Bilateral U-Net", arXiv, 2021 (Nankai University). [Paper]
• TranSalNet: "TranSalNet: Visual saliency prediction using transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Cardiff University, UK). [Paper]
• DFTR: "DFTR: Depth-supervised Hierarchical Feature Fusion Transformer for Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• GroupTransNet: "GroupTransNet: Group Transformer Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Nankai university). [Paper]

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Other Detection Tasks

• X-supervised:
  • LOST: "Localizing Objects with Self-Supervised Transformers and no Labels", BMVC, 2021 (Valeo.ai). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Omni-DETR: "Omni-DETR: Omni-Supervised Object Detection with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • TokenCut: "Self-Supervised Transformers for Unsupervised Object Discovery using Normalized Cut", arXiv, 2022 (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France). [Paper][Website]
• Pedestrian Detection:
  • PED: "DETR for Crowd Pedestrian Detection", arXiv, 2020 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Pedestron: "Pedestrian Detection: Domain Generalization, CNNs, Transformers and Beyond", arXiv, 2022 (IIAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Lane Detection:
  • LSTR: "End-to-end Lane Shape Prediction with Transformers", WACV, 2021 (Xi'an Jiaotong). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • LETR: "Line Segment Detection Using Transformers without Edges", CVPR, 2021 (UCSD). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Laneformer: "Laneformer: Object-aware Row-Column Transformers for Lane Detection", AAAI, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
  • PersFormer: "PersFormer: 3D Lane Detection via Perspective Transformer and the OpenLane Benchmark", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Laboratory). [Paper][GitHub]
• Object Localization:
  • TS-CAM: "TS-CAM: Token Semantic Coupled Attention Map for Weakly Supervised Object Localization", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • LCTR: "LCTR: On Awakening the Local Continuity of Transformer for Weakly Supervised Object Localization", AAAI, 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper]
  • CaFT: "CaFT: Clustering and Filter on Tokens of Transformer for Weakly Supervised Object Localization", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
• Relation Detection:
  • PST: "Visual Relationship Detection Using Part-and-Sum Transformers with Composite Queries", ICCV, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • RelTransformer: "RelTransformer: Balancing the Visual Relationship Detection from Local Context, Scene and Memory", arXiv, 2021 (KAUST). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • PST: "Visual Composite Set Detection Using Part-and-Sum Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • TROI: "Transformed ROIs for Capturing Visual Transformations in Videos", arXiv, 2021 (NUS, Singapore). [Paper]
• HOI Detection:
  • HOI-Transformer: "End-to-End Human Object Interaction Detection with HOI Transformer", CVPR, 2021 (Megvii). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HOTR: "HOTR: End-to-End Human-Object Interaction Detection with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Kakao + Korea University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MSTR: "MSTR: Multi-Scale Transformer for End-to-End Human-Object Interaction Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Kakao). [Paper]
  • SSRT: "What to look at and where: Semantic and Spatial Refined Transformer for detecting human-object interactions", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • CPC: "Consistency Learning via Decoding Path Augmentation for Transformers in Human Object Interaction Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Korea University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • Iwin: "Iwin: Human-Object Interaction Detection via Transformer with Irregular Windows", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong). [Paper]
  • CATN: "Category-Aware Transformer Network for Better Human-Object Interaction Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• Anomaly Detection:
  • VT-ADL: "VT-ADL: A Vision Transformer Network for Image Anomaly Detection and Localization", ISIE, 2021 (University of Udine, Italy). [Paper]
  • InTra: "Inpainting Transformer for Anomaly Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Fujitsu). [Paper]
  • AnoViT: "AnoViT: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Localization with Vision Transformer-based Encoder-Decoder", arXiv, 2022 (Korea University). [Paper]
• Domain Adaptation:
  • SSTN: "SSTN: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Thermal Object Detection for Autonomous Driving", arXiv, 2021 (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology). [Paper]
  • DA-DETR: "DA-DETR: Domain Adaptive Detection Transformer by Hybrid Attention", arXiv, 2021 (NTU Singapore). [Paper]
• X-Shot Object Detection:
  • AIT: "Adaptive Image Transformer for One-Shot Object Detection", CVPR, 2021 (Academia Sinica). [Paper]
  • Meta-DETR: "Meta-DETR: Few-Shot Object Detection via Unified Image-Level Meta-Learning", arXiv, 2021 (NTU Singapore). [Paper]
  • CAT: "CAT: Cross-Attention Transformer for One-Shot Object Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Northwestern Polytechnical University). [Paper]
  • FCT: "Few-Shot Object Detection with Fully Cross-Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Columbia). [Paper]
  • SaFT: "Semantic-aligned Fusion Transformer for One-shot Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• Co-Salient Object Detection:
  • CoSformer: "CoSformer: Detecting Co-Salient Object with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
• Oriented Object Detection:
  • O²DETR: "Oriented Object Detection with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• Multiview Detection:
  • MVDeTr: "Multiview Detection with Shadow Transformer (and View-Coherent Data Augmentation)", ACMMM, 2021 (ANU). [Paper]
• Polygon Detection:
  • ?: "Investigating transformers in the decomposition of polygonal shapes as point collections", ICCVW, 2021 (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands). [Paper]
• Drone-view:
  • TPH: "TPH-YOLOv5: Improved YOLOv5 Based on Transformer Prediction Head for Object Detection on Drone-captured Scenarios", ICCVW, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• Infrared:
  • ?: "Infrared Small-Dim Target Detection with Transformer under Complex Backgrounds", arXiv, 2021 (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• Text:
  • SwinTextSpotter: "SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TESTR: "Text Spotting Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (UCSD). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TTS: "Towards Weakly-Supervised Text Spotting using a Multi-Task Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • TransDETR: "End-to-End Video Text Spotting with Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Arbitrary Shape Text Detection using Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Waterloo, Canada). [Paper]
• Change Detection:
  • ChangeFormer: "A Transformer-Based Siamese Network for Change Detection", arXiv, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Edge Detection:
  • EDTER: "EDTER: Edge Detection with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Person Search:
  • COAT: "Cascade Transformers for End-to-End Person Search", CVPR, 2022 (Kitware). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PSTR: "PSTR: End-to-End One-Step Person Search With Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Tianjin University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Manipulation Detection:
  • ObjectFormer: "ObjectFormer for Image Manipulation Detection and Localization", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan University). [Paper]
• Grounded Situation Recognition:
  • CoFormer: "Collaborative Transformers for Grounded Situation Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Segmentation

Semantic Segmentation

• SETR: "Rethinking Semantic Segmentation from a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• TrSeg: "TrSeg: Transformer for semantic segmentation", PRL, 2021 (Korea University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CWT: "Simpler is Better: Few-shot Semantic Segmentation with Classifier Weight Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (University of Surrey, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Segmenter: "Segmenter: Transformer for Semantic Segmentation", ICCV, 2021 (INRIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UN-EPT: "A Unified Efficient Pyramid Transformer for Semantic Segmentation", ICCVW, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
• SegFormer: "SegFormer: Simple and Efficient Design for Semantic Segmentation with Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FTN: "Fully Transformer Networks for Semantic Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• OffRoadTranSeg: "OffRoadTranSeg: Semi-Supervised Segmentation using Transformers on OffRoad environments", arXiv, 2021 (IISER. India). [Paper]
• MaskFormer: "Per-Pixel Classification is Not All You Need for Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (UIUC + Facebook). [Paper][Website]
• TRFS: "Boosting Few-shot Semantic Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper]
• Flying-Guide-Dog: "Flying Guide Dog: Walkable Path Discovery for the Visually Impaired Utilizing Drones and Transformer-based Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (KIT, Germany). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• VSPW: "Semantic Segmentation on VSPW Dataset through Aggregation of Transformer Models", arXiv, 2021 (Xiaomi). [Paper]
• SDTP: "SDTP: Semantic-aware Decoupled Transformer Pyramid for Dense Image Prediction", arXiv, 2021 (?). [Paper]
• TopFormer: "TopFormer: Token Pyramid Transformer for Mobile Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• GroupViT: "GroupViT: Semantic Segmentation Emerges from Text Supervision", CVPR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][Website][PyTorch]
• Lawin: "Lawin Transformer: Improving Semantic Segmentation Transformer with Multi-Scale Representations via Large Window Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PFT: "Pyramid Fusion Transformer for Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper]
• DFlatFormer: "Dual-Flattening Transformers through Decomposed Row and Column Queries for Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (OPPO). [Paper]
• FeSeFormer: "Feature Selective Transformer for Semantic Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• StructToken: "StructToken : Rethinking Semantic Segmentation with Structural Prior", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Lab). [Paper]

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Object Segmentation

• SOTR: "SOTR: Segmenting Objects with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (China Agricultural University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Trans4Trans: "Trans4Trans: Efficient Transformer for Transparent Object Segmentation to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate in the Real World", ICCVW, 2021 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Trans2Seg: "Segmenting Transparent Object in the Wild with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (HKU + SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SOIT: "SOIT: Segmenting Objects with Instance-Aware Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Hikvision). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Other Segmentation Tasks

• Multi-Modal:
  • CMX: "CMX: Cross-Modal Fusion for RGB-X Semantic Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Panoptic Segmentation:
  • MaX-DeepLab: "MaX-DeepLab: End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation with Mask Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (conradry)]
  • Panoptic-SegFormer: "Panoptic SegFormer", arXiv, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
  • SIAin: "An End-to-End Trainable Video Panoptic Segmentation Method usingTransformers", arXiv, 2021 (SI Analytics, South Korea). [Paper]
  • VPS-Transformer: "Time-Space Transformers for Video Panoptic Segmentation", WACV, 2022 (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania). [Paper]
  • Panoptic-PartFormer: "Panoptic-PartFormer: Learning a Unified Model for Panoptic Part Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Peking). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Depth Estimation & Semantic Segmentation:
  • DPT: "Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction", ICCV, 2021 (Intel). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Instance Segmentation:
  • ISTR: "ISTR: End-to-End Instance Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Depth Estimation:
  • TransDepth: "Transformer-Based Attention Networks for Continuous Pixel-Wise Prediction", ICCV, 2021 (Haerbin Institute of Technology + University of Trento). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ASTransformer: "Transformer-based Monocular Depth Estimation with Attention Supervision", BMVC, 2021 (USTC). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MT-SfMLearner: "Transformers in Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Unknown Camera Intrinsics", VISAP, 2022 (NavInfo Europe, Netherlands). [Paper]
  • GLPanoDepth: "GLPanoDepth: Global-to-Local Panoramic Depth Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
  • DepthFormer: "DepthFormer: Exploiting Long-Range Correlation and Local Information for Accurate Monocular Depth Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • BinsFormer: "BinsFormer: Revisiting Adaptive Bins for Monocular Depth Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Optical Flow:
  • FlowFormer: "FlowFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][Website]
• Panoramic Semantic Segmentation:
  • Trans4PASS: "Bending Reality: Distortion-aware Transformers for Adapting to Panoramic Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Few-Shot:
  • CyCTR: "Few-Shot Segmentation via Cycle-Consistent Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper]
  • LSeg: "Language-driven Semantic Segmentation", ICLR, 2022 (Cornell). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TAFT: "Task-Adaptive Feature Transformer with Semantic Enrichment for Few-Shot Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
• Weakly-Supervised:
  • MCTformer: "Multi-class Token Transformer for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (The University of Western Australia). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • AFA: "Learning Affinity from Attention: End-to-End Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Wuhan University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TransCAM: "TransCAM: Transformer Attention-based CAM Refinement for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Toronto). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • WegFormer: "WegFormer: Transformers for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Tongji University, China). [Paper]
• Urban Scene:
  • BANet: "Transformer Meets Convolution: A Bilateral Awareness Net-work for Semantic Segmentation of Very Fine Resolution Urban Scene Images", arXiv, 2021 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
• Crack Detection:
  • CrackFormer: "CrackFormer: Transformer Network for Fine-Grained Crack Detection", ICCV, 2021 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• Camouflaged Object Detection:
  • UGTR: "Uncertainty-Guided Transformer Reasoning for Camouflaged Object Detection", ICCV, 2021 (Group42, Abu Dhabi). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Background Separation:
  • TransBlast: "TransBlast: Self-Supervised Learning Using Augmented Subspace With Transformer for Background/Foreground Separation", ICCVW, 2021 (University of British Columbia). [Paper]
• Scene Understanding:
  • InvPT: "Inverted Pyramid Multi-task Transformer for Dense Scene Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (HKUST). [Paper]
• 3D Semantic Segmentation:
  • Stratified-Transformer: "Stratified Transformer for 3D Point Cloud Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • CodedVTR: "CodedVTR: Codebook-based Sparse Voxel Transformer with Geometric Guidance", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]

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Video (High-level)

Action Recognition

• RGB mainly
  • Action Transformer: "Video Action Transformer Network", CVPR, 2019 (DeepMind). [Paper][Code (ppriyank)]
  • ViViT-Ensemble: "Towards Training Stronger Video Vision Transformers for EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Action Recognition", CVPRW, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • TimeSformer: "Is Space-Time Attention All You Need for Video Understanding?", ICML, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
  • MViT: "Multiscale Vision Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • VidTr: "VidTr: Video Transformer Without Convolutions", ICCV, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ViViT: "ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (rishikksh20)]
  • VTN: "Video Transformer Network", ICCVW, 2021 (Theator). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TokShift: "Token Shift Transformer for Video Classification", ACMMM, 2021 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Motionformer: "Keeping Your Eye on the Ball: Trajectory Attention in Video Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • X-ViT: "Space-time Mixing Attention for Video Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Samsung). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SCT: "Shifted Chunk Transformer for Spatio-Temporal Representational Learning", NeurIPS, 2021 (Kuaishou). [Paper]
  • RSANet: "Relational Self-Attention: What's Missing in Attention for Video Understanding", NeurIPS, 2021 (POSTECH). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • STAM: "An Image is Worth 16x16 Words, What is a Video Worth?", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][Code]
  • GAT: "Enhancing Transformer for Video Understanding Using Gated Multi-Level Attention and Temporal Adversarial Training", arXiv, 2021 (Samsung). [Paper]
  • TokenLearner: "TokenLearner: What Can 8 Learned Tokens Do for Images and Videos?", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • Video-Swin: "Video Swin Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • VLF: "VideoLightFormer: Lightweight Action Recognition using Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (The University of Sheffield). [Paper]
  • ORViT: "Object-Region Video Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][Website]
  • Improved-MViT: "Improved Multiscale Vision Transformers for Classification and Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Meta). [Paper]
  • UniFormer: "UniFormer: Unified Transformer for Efficient Spatiotemporal Representation Learning", ICLR, 2022 (CAS + SenstTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DirecFormer: "DirecFormer: A Directed Attention in Transformer Approach to Robust Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (University of Arkansas). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MeMViT: "MeMViT: Memory-Augmented Multiscale Vision Transformer for Efficient Long-Term Video Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
  • MTV: "Multiview Transformers for Video Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • MSCA: "Vision Transformer with Cross-attention by Temporal Shift for Efficient Action Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Nagoya Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• Depth
  • Trear: "Trear: Transformer-based RGB-D Egocentric Action Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2021 (Tianjing University). [Paper]
• Pose:
  • ST-TR: "Spatial Temporal Transformer Network for Skeleton-based Action Recognition", ICPRW, 2020 (Polytechnic University of Milan). [Paper]
  • AcT: "Action Transformer: A Self-Attention Model for Short-Time Human Action Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (Politecnico di Torino, Italy). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • STAR: "STAR: Sparse Transformer-based Action Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (UCLA). [Paper]
  • GCsT: "GCsT: Graph Convolutional Skeleton Transformer for Action Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • STTFormer: "Spatio-Temporal Tuples Transformer for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Xidian University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • ProFormer: "ProFormer: Learning Data-efficient Representations of Body Movement with Prototype-based Feature Augmentation and Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Multi-modal:
  • MBT: "Attention Bottlenecks for Multimodal Fusion", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • MM-ViT: "MM-ViT: Multi-Modal Video Transformer for Compressed Video Action Recognition", WACV, 2022 (OPPO). [Paper]
  • MMT-NCRC: "Multimodal Transformer for Nursing Activity Recognition", CVPRW, 2022 (UCF). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MVFT: "Multi-View Fusion Transformer for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• Zero-shot:
  • ViSET: "Zero-Shot Action Recognition with Transformer-based Video Semantic Embedding", arXiv, 2022 (University of South FLorida). [Paper]

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Action Detection/Localization

• OadTR: "OadTR: Online Action Detection with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RTD-Net: "Relaxed Transformer Decoders for Direct Action Proposal Generation", ICCV, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FS-TAL: "Few-Shot Temporal Action Localization with Query Adaptive Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (University of Surrey, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LSTR: "Long Short-Term Transformer for Online Action Detection", NeurIPS, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• TubeR: "TubeR: Tube-Transformer for Action Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
• ATAG: "Augmented Transformer with Adaptive Graph for Temporal Action Proposal Generation", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• TAPG-Transformer: "Temporal Action Proposal Generation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• TadTR: "End-to-end Temporal Action Detection with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Vidpress-Soccer: "Feature Combination Meets Attention: Baidu Soccer Embeddings and Transformer based Temporal Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper][GitHub]
• CoOadTR: "Continual Transformers: Redundancy-Free Attention for Online Inference", arXiv, 2022 (Aarhus University, Denmark). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ActionFormer: "ActionFormer: Localizing Moments of Actions with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (UW-Madison). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Temporal-Perceiver: "Temporal Perceiver: A General Architecture for Arbitrary Boundary Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
• LocATe: "LocATe: End-to-end Localization of Actions in 3D with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Stanford). [Paper]
• TALLFormer: "TALLFormer: Temporal Action Localization with Long-memory Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (UNC). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Action Prediction

• AVT: "Anticipative Video Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• HORST: "Higher Order Recurrent Space-Time Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Action Forecasting with Feature-wise Self-Attention", arXiv, 2021 (A*STAR). [Paper]
• ?: "Future Transformer for Long-term Action Anticipation", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper]
• TTPP: "TTPP: Temporal Transformer with Progressive Prediction for Efficient Action Anticipation", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• VPTR: "VPTR: Efficient Transformers for Video Prediction", ICPR, 2022 (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Video Object Segmentation

• SSTVOS: "SSTVOS: Sparse Spatiotemporal Transformers for Video Object Segmentation", CVPR, 2021 (Modiface). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• JOINT: "Joint Inductive and Transductive Learning for Video Object Segmentation", ICCV, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AOT: "Associating Objects with Transformers for Video Object Segmentation", NeurIPS, 2021 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch (yoxu515)][Code (in construction)]
• TransVOS: "TransVOS: Video Object Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
• SITVOS: "Siamese Network with Interactive Transformer for Video Object Segmentation", AAAI, 2022 (JD). [Paper]
• MTTR: "End-to-End Referring Video Object Segmentation with Multimodal Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AOT: "Associating Objects with Scalable Transformers for Video Object Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Other Video Tasks

• Action Segmentation
  • ASFormer: "ASFormer: Transformer for Action Segmentation", BMVC, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Transformers in Action: Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]
• Video Instance Segmentation
  • VisTR: "End-to-End Video Instance Segmentation with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Meituan). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • IFC: "Video Instance Segmentation using Inter-Frame Communication Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Yonsei University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Deformable-VisTR: "Deformable VisTR: Spatio temporal deformable attention for video instance segmentation", ICASSP, 2022 (University at Buffalo). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MS-STS: "Video Instance Segmentation via Multi-scale Spatio-temporal Split Attention Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Video Object Detection:
  • TransVOD: "End-to-End Video Object Detection with Spatial-Temporal Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Shanghai Jiao Tong + SenseTime). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MODETR: "MODETR: Moving Object Detection with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Valeo, Egypt). [Paper]
  • ST-MTL: "Spatio-Temporal Multi-Task Learning Transformer for Joint Moving Object Detection and Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Valeo, Egypt). [Paper]
  • ST-DETR: "ST-DETR: Spatio-Temporal Object Traces Attention Detection Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Valeo, Egypt). [Paper]
  • TransVOD: "TransVOD: End-to-end Video Object Detection with Spatial-Temporal Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong + SenseTime). [Paper]
• Video Retrieval
  • SVRTN: "Self-supervised Video Retrieval Transformer Network", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• Video Hashing
  • BTH: "Self-Supervised Video Hashing via Bidirectional Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• X-supervised Learning:
  • VIMPAC: "VIMPAC: Video Pre-Training via Masked Token Prediction and Contrastive Learning", arXiv, 2021 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • LSTCL: "Long-Short Temporal Contrastive Learning of Video Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Facebook). [Paper]
  • SVT: "Self-supervised Video Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Stony Brook). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • VideoMAE: "VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Anomaly Detection:
  • CT-D2GAN: "Convolutional Transformer based Dual Discriminator Generative Adversarial Networks for Video Anomaly Detection", ACMMM, 2021 (NEC). [Paper]
• Relation Detection:
  • VidVRD: "Video Relation Detection via Tracklet based Visual Transformer", ACMMMW, 2021 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Saliency Prediction:
  • STSANet: "Spatio-Temporal Self-Attention Network for Video Saliency Prediction", arXiv, 2021 (Shanghai University). [Paper]
  • UFO: "A Unified Transformer Framework for Group-based Segmentation: Co-Segmentation, Co-Saliency Detection and Video Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Group Activity:
  • GroupFormer: "GroupFormer: Group Activity Recognition with Clustered Spatial-Temporal Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Sensetime). [Paper]
• Video Inpainting Detection:
  • FAST: "Frequency-Aware Spatiotemporal Transformers for Video Inpainting Detection", ICCV, 2021 (Tsinghua University). [Paper]
• Driver Activity:
  • TransDARC: "TransDARC: Transformer-based Driver Activity Recognition with Latent Space Feature Calibration", arXiv, 2022 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper]
• Video Alignment:
  • DGWT: "Dynamic Graph Warping Transformer for Video Alignment", BMVC, 2021 (University of New South Wales, Australia). [Paper]
• Sport-related:
  • Skating-Mixer: "Skating-Mixer: Multimodal MLP for Scoring Figure Skating", arXiv, 2022 (Southern University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• Action Counting:
  • TransRAC: "TransRAC: Encoding Multi-scale Temporal Correlation with Transformers for Repetitive Action Counting", CVPR, 2022 (ShanghaiTech). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]

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Multi-Modality

VQA / Captioning

• MCAN: "Deep Modular Co-Attention Networks for Visual Question Answering", CVPR, 2019 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ETA-Transformer: "Entangled Transformer for Image Captioning", ICCV, 2019 (UTS). [Paper]
• M4C: "Iterative Answer Prediction with Pointer-Augmented Multimodal Transformers for TextVQA", CVPR, 2020 (Facebook). [Paper]
• M2-Transformer: "Meshed-Memory Transformer for Image Captioning", CVPR, 2020 (UniMoRE). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SA-M4C: "Spatially Aware Multimodal Transformers for TextVQA", ECCV, 2020 (Georgia Tech). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• BMT: "A Better Use of Audio-Visual Cues: Dense Video Captioning with Bi-modal Transformer", BMVC, 2020 (Tampere University, Finland). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• CATT: "Causal Attention for Vision-Language Tasks", CVPR, 2021 (NTU Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Optimizing Latency for Online Video CaptioningUsing Audio-Visual Transformers", Interspeech, 2021 (MERL). [Paper]
• ConClaT: "Contrast and Classify: Training Robust VQA Models", ICCV, 2021 (Georgia Tech). [Paper]
• MCCFormers: "Describing and Localizing Multiple Changes with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (AIST). [Paper][Website]
• TRAR: "TRAR: Routing the Attention Spans in Transformer for Visual Question Answering", ICCV, 2021 (Xiamen University). [Paper]
• UniQer: "Unified Questioner Transformer for Descriptive Question Generation in Goal-Oriented Visual Dialogue", ICCV, 2021 (Keio). [Paper]
• SATIC: "Semi-Autoregressive Transformer for Image Captioning", ICCVW, 2021 (Hefei University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DGCN: "Dual Graph Convolutional Networks with Transformer and Curriculum Learning for Image Captioning", ACMMM, 2021 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
• TxT: "TxT: Crossmodal End-to-End Learning with Transformers", GCPR, 2021 (TU Darmstadt). [Paper]
• ProTo: "ProTo: Program-Guided Transformer for Program-Guided Tasks", NeurIPS, 2021 (Georiga Tech). [Paper]
• CPTR: "CPTR: Full Transformer Network for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• VisQA: "VisQA: X-raying Vision and Language Reasoning in Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (INSA-Lyon). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ReFormer: "ReFormer: The Relational Transformer for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2021 (Stony Brook University). [Paper]
• ?: "Mounting Video Metadata on Transformer-based Language Model for Open-ended Video Question Answering", arXiv, 2021 (Seoul National University). [Paper]
• LAViTeR: "LAViTeR: Learning Aligned Visual and Textual Representations Assisted by Image and Caption Generation", arXiv, 2021 (University at Buffalo). [Paper]
• TPT: "Temporal Pyramid Transformer with Multimodal Interaction for Video Question Answering", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• LATGeO: "Label-Attention Transformer with Geometrically Coherent Objects for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2021 (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• GEVST: "Geometry-Entangled Visual Semantic Transformer for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2021 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper]
• GAT: "Geometry Attention Transformer with Position-aware LSTMs for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2021 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• Block-Skim: "Block-Skim: Efficient Question Answering for Transformer", AAAI, 2022 (* Shanghai Jiao Tong*). [Paper]
• PureT: "End-to-End Transformer Based Model for Image Captioning", AAAI, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• RelViT: "RelViT: Concept-guided Vision Transformer for Visual Relational Reasoning", ICLR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper]
• X-Trans2Cap: "X-Trans2Cap: Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer using Transformer for 3D Dense Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
• UCM: "Self-Training Vision Language BERTs with a Unified Conditional Model", arXiv, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper]
• ViNTER: "ViNTER: Image Narrative Generation with Emotion-Arc-Aware Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper]
• TMN: "Transformer Module Networks for Systematic Generalization in Visual Question Answering", arXiv, 2022 (Fujitsu). [Paper]
• ?: "On the Efficacy of Co-Attention Transformer Layers in Visual Question Answering", arXiv, 2022 (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India). [Paper]
• DST: "Towards Efficient and Elastic Visual Question Answering with Doubly Slimmable Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper]

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Visual Grounding

• Multi-Stage-Transformer: "Multi-Stage Aggregated Transformer Network for Temporal Language Localization in Videos", CVPR, 2021 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• TransRefer3D: "TransRefer3D: Entity-and-Relation Aware Transformer for Fine-Grained 3D Visual Grounding", ACMMM, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• ?: "Vision-and-Language or Vision-for-Language? On Cross-Modal Influence in Multimodal Transformers", EMNLP, 2021 (University of Trento). [Paper]
• GTR: "On Pursuit of Designing Multi-modal Transformer for Video Grounding", EMNLP, 2021 (Peking). [Paper]
• MITVG: "Multimodal Incremental Transformer with Visual Grounding for Visual Dialogue Generation", ACL Findings, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper]
• STVGBert: "STVGBert: A Visual-Linguistic Transformer Based Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding", ICCV, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper]
• TransVG: "TransVG: End-to-End Visual Grounding with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (USTC). [Paper]
• GSRTR: "Grounded Situation Recognition with Transformers", BMVC, 2021 (POSTECH). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DRFT: "End-to-end Multi-modal Video Temporal Grounding", NeurIPS, 2021 (UC Merced). [Paper]
• Referring-Transformer: "Referring Transformer: A One-step Approach to Multi-task Visual Grounding", NeurIPS, 2021 (UBC). [Paper]
• VGTR: "Visual Grounding with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• Word2Pix: "Word2Pix: Word to Pixel Cross Attention Transformer in Visual Grounding", arXiv, 2021 (A*STAR). [Paper]
• TubeDETR: "TubeDETR: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (INRIA). [Paper][Website]
• MVT: "Multi-View Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VidGTR: "Explore and Match: End-to-End Video Grounding with Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
• SeqTR: "SeqTR: A Simple yet Universal Network for Visual Grounding", arXiv, 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Multi-Modal Representation Learning

• COOT: "COOT: Cooperative Hierarchical Transformer for Video-Text Representation Learning", NeurIPS, 2020 (University of Freiburg). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Parameter-Reduction: "Parameter Efficient Multimodal Transformers for Video Representation Learning", ICLR, 2021 (Seoul National University). [Paper]
• VinVL: "VinVL: Revisiting Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models", CVPR, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code]
• ViLT: "ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region Supervision", ICML, 2021 (Kakao). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VML: "VLM: Task-agnostic Video-Language Model Pre-training for Video Understanding", ACL Findings, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• VATT: "VATT: Transformers for Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning from Raw Video, Audio and Text", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• SVO-Probes: "Probing Image-Language Transformers for Verb Understanding", arXiv, 2021 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• CLIP-ViL: "How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks?", arXiv, 2021 (Berkeley + UCLA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Survey: Transformer based Video-Language Pre-training", arXiv, 2021 (Renmin University of China). [Paper]
• TAN: "Temporal Alignment Networks for Long-term Video", CVPR, 2022 (Oxford). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
• Omnivore: "Omnivore: A Single Model for Many Visual Modalities", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MultiMAE: "MultiMAE: Multi-modal Multi-task Masked Autoencoders", arXiv, 2022 (EPFL). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]

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Multi-Modal Retrieval

• MMT: "Multi-modal Transformer for Video Retrieval", ECCV, 2020 (INRIA + Google). [Paper][Website]
• Fast-and-Slow: "Thinking Fast and Slow: Efficient Text-to-Visual Retrieval with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• HTR: "Revamping Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval with Hierarchical Transformers and Self-supervised Learning", CVPR, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ClipBERT: "Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling", CVPR, 2021 (UNC + Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AYCE: "All You Can Embed: Natural Language based Vehicle Retrieval with Spatio-Temporal Transformers", CVPRW, 2021 (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TERN: "Towards Efficient Cross-Modal Visual Textual Retrieval using Transformer-Encoder Deep Features", CBMI, 2021 (National Research Council, Italy). [Paper]
• HiT: "HiT: Hierarchical Transformer with Momentum Contrast for Video-Text Retrieval", ICCV, 2021 (Kuaishou). [Paper]
• VisualSparta: "VisualSparta: Sparse Transformer Fragment-level Matching for Large-scale Text-to-Image Search", arXiv, 2021 (CMU). [Paper]
• WebVid-2M: "Frozen in Time: A Joint Video and Image Encoder for End-to-End Retrieval", arXiv, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper]
• CCR-CCS: "More Than Just Attention: Learning Cross-Modal Attentions with Contrastive Constraints", arXiv, 2021 (Rutgers + Amazon). [Paper]
• UMT: "UMT: Unified Multi-modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in constrcution)]
• BridgeFormer: "BridgeFormer: Bridging Video-text Retrieval with Multiple Choice Questions", arXiv, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][Website]
• LoopITR: "LoopITR: Combining Dual and Cross Encoder Architectures for Image-Text Retrieval", arXiv, 2022 (UNC). [Paper]
• MDMMT-2: "MDMMT-2: Multidomain Multimodal Transformer for Video Retrieval, One More Step Towards Generalization", arXiv, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]

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Visual Document Understanding

• DocFormer: "DocFormer: End-to-End Transformer for Document Understanding", ICCV, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
• TableFormer: "TableFormer: Table Structure Understanding with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (IBM). [Paper]
• DocEnTr: "DocEnTr: An End-to-End Document Image Enhancement Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (UAB, Spain). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DocSegTr: "DocSegTr: An Instance-Level End-to-End Document Image Segmentation Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (UAB, Spain). [Paper]
• DiT: "DiT: Self-supervised Pre-training for Document Image Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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Scene Graph

• BGT-Net: "BGT-Net: Bidirectional GRU Transformer Network for Scene Graph Generation", CVPRW, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper]
• STTran: "Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Dynamic Scene Graph Generation", ICCV, 2021 (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SGG-NLS: "Learning to Generate Scene Graph from Natural Language Supervision", ICCV, 2021 (University of Wisconsin-Madison). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SGG-Seq2Seq: "Context-Aware Scene Graph Generation With Seq2Seq Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Layer 6 AI, Canada). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RELAX: "Image-Text Alignment using Adaptive Cross-attention with Transformer Encoder for Scene Graphs", BMVC, 2021 (Samsung). [Paper]
• Relation-Transformer: "Scenes and Surroundings: Scene Graph Generation using Relation Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (LMU Munich). [Paper]
• SGTR: "SGTR: End-to-end Scene Graph Generation with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (ShanghaiTech). [Paper]
• RelTR: "RelTR: Relation Transformer for Scene Graph Generation", arXiv, 2022 (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Other Multi-Modal Tasks

• Segmentation:
  • VLT: "Vision-Language Transformer and Query Generation for Referring Segmentation", ICCV, 2021 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• Analysis:
  • MM-Explainability: "Generic Attention-model Explainability for Interpreting Bi-Modal and Encoder-Decoder Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Generation:
  • DALL-E: "Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation", ICML, 2021 (OpenAI). [Paper][PyTorch][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
  • CogView: "CogView: Mastering Text-to-Image Generation via Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • DALL-Eval: "DALL-Eval: Probing the Reasoning Skills and Social Biases of Text-to-Image Generative Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Speaker Localization:
  • ?: "The Right to Talk: An Audio-Visual Transformer Approach", ICCV, 2021 (University of Arkansas). [Paper]
• Multi-task:
  • UniT: "Transformer is All You Need: Multimodal Multitask Learning with a Unified Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• Language-based Video Editing:
  • M³L: "Language-based Video Editing via Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (UCSB). [Paper]
• Video Summarization:
  • GPT2MVS: "GPT2MVS: Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 for Multi-modal Video Summarization", ICMR, 2021 (BBC). [Paper]
  • QVHighlights: "QVHighlights: Detecting Moments and Highlights in Videos via Natural Language Queries", NeurIPS, 2021 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HMT: "Hierarchical Multimodal Transformer to Summarize Videos", arXiv, 2021 (Xidian University). [Paper]
• Robotics:
  • CRT: "Case Relation Transformer: A Crossmodal Language Generation Model for Fetching Instructions", IROS, 2021 (Keio University). [Paper]
  • TraSeTR: "TraSeTR: Track-to-Segment Transformer with Contrastive Query for Instance-level Instrument Segmentation in Robotic Surgery", ICRA, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
• Multi-modal Fusion:
  • MICA: "Attention Is Not Enough: Mitigating the Distribution Discrepancy in Asynchronous Multimodal Sequence Fusion", ICCV, 2021 (Southwest Jiaotong University). [Paper]
  • IFT: "Image Fusion Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PPT: "PPT Fusion: Pyramid Patch Transformerfor a Case Study in Image Fusion", arXiv, 2021 (?). [Paper]
  • TransFuse: "TransFuse: A Unified Transformer-based Image Fusion Framework using Self-supervised Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan University). [Paper]
• Human Interaction:
  • Dyadformer: "Dyadformer: A Multi-modal Transformer for Long-Range Modeling of Dyadic Interactions", ICCVW, 2021 (Universitat de Barcelona). [Paper]
• Sign Language Translation:
  • LWTA: "Stochastic Transformer Networks with Linear Competing Units: Application to end-to-end SL Translation", ICCV, 2021 (Cyprus University of Technology). [Paper]
• 3D Object Identification:
  • 3DRefTransformer: "3DRefTransformer: Fine-Grained Object Identification in Real-World Scenes Using Natural Language", WACV, 2022 (KAUST). [Paper][Website]
• Speech Recognition:
  • AV-HuBERT: "Robust Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Speech Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Transformer-Based Video Front-Ends for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• Emotion Recognition:
  • ?: "A Pre-trained Audio-Visual Transformer for Emotion Recognition", ICASSP, 2022 (USC). [Paper]
• Voice Separation:
  • VoViT: "VoViT: Low Latency Graph-based Audio-Visual Voice Separation Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain). [Paper][Website]
• Language-guided Video Segmentation:
  • Locater: "Local-Global Context Aware Transformer for Language-Guided Video Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Analysis:
  • ?: "Are Multimodal Transformers Robust to Missing Modality?", CVPR, 2022 (University of Delaware). [Paper]
  • VL-InterpreT: "VL-InterpreT: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Interpreting Vision-Language Transformers", CVPR (demo), 2022 (Intel). [Paper][Website][Video]

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Other High-level Vision Tasks

Point Cloud

• PCT: "PCT: Point Cloud Transformer", arXiv, 2020 (Tsinghua). [Paper][Jittor][PyTorch (uyzhang)]
• Point-Transformer: "Point Transformer", arXiv, 2020 (Ulm University). [Paper]
• NDT-Transformer: "NDT-Transformer: Large-Scale 3D Point Cloud Localisation using the Normal Distribution Transform Representation", ICRA, 2021 (University of Sheffield). [Paper][PyTorch]
• P4Transformer: "Point 4D Transformer Networks for Spatio-Temporal Modeling in Point Cloud Videos", CVPR, 2021 (NUS). [Paper]
• PTT: "PTT: Point-Track-Transformer Module for 3D Single Object Tracking in Point Clouds", IROS, 2021 (Northeastern University). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• SnowflakeNet: "SnowflakeNet: Point Cloud Completion by Snowflake Point Deconvolution with Skip-Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PoinTr: "PoinTr: Diverse Point Cloud Completion with Geometry-Aware Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Point-Transformer: "Point Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Oxford + CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• CT: "Cloud Transformers: A Universal Approach To Point Cloud Processing Tasks", ICCV, 2021 (Samsung). [Paper]
• 3DVG-Transformer: "3DVG-Transformer: Relation Modeling for Visual Grounding on Point Clouds", ICCV, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• PPT-Net: "Pyramid Point Cloud Transformer for Large-Scale Place Recognition", ICCV, 2021 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• LTTR: "3D Object Tracking with Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (Northeastern University, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• ?: "Shape registration in the time of transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Sapienza University of Rome). [Paper]
• YOGO: "You Only Group Once: Efficient Point-Cloud Processing with Token Representation and Relation Inference Module", arXiv, 2021 (Berkeley). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DTNet: "Dual Transformer for Point Cloud Analysis", arXiv, 2021 (Southwest University). [Paper]
• MLMSPT: "Point Cloud Learning with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Southwest University). [Paper]
• PQ-Transformer: "PQ-Transformer: Jointly Parsing 3D Objects and Layouts from Point Clouds", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PST²: "Spatial-Temporal Transformer for 3D Point Cloud Sequences", WACV, 2022 (Sun Yat-sen University). [Paper]
• SCTN: "SCTN: Sparse Convolution-Transformer Network for Scene Flow Estimation", AAAI, 2022 (KAUST). [Paper]
• AWT-Net: "Adaptive Wavelet Transformer Network for 3D Shape Representation Learning", ICLR, 2022 (NYU). [Paper]
• ?: "Deep Point Cloud Reconstruction", ICLR, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
• HiTPR: "HiTPR: Hierarchical Transformer for Place Recognition in Point Cloud", ICRA, 2022 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• FastPointTransformer: "Fast Point Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper]
• REGTR: "REGTR: End-to-end Point Cloud Correspondences with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (NUS, Singapore). [Paper]
• GeoTransformer: "Geometric Transformer for Fast and Robust Point Cloud Registration", arXiv, 2022 (National University of Defense Technology, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LighTN: "LighTN: Light-weight Transformer Network for Performance-overhead Tradeoff in Point Cloud Downsampling", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [Paper]
• PMP-Net++: "PMP-Net++: Point Cloud Completion by Transformer-Enhanced Multi-step Point Moving Paths", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• SnowflakeNet: "Snowflake Point Deconvolution for Point Cloud Completion and Generation with Skip-Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ShapeFormer: "ShapeFormer: Transformer-based Shape Completion via Sparse Representation", arXiv, 2022 (Shenzhen University). [Paper][Website]
• 3DCTN: "3DCTN: 3D Convolution-Transformer Network for Point Cloud Classification", arXiv, 2022 (University of Waterloo, Canada). [Paper]

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Pose Estimation

• Human-related:
  • Hand-Transformer: "Hand-Transformer: Non-Autoregressive Structured Modeling for 3D Hand Pose Estimation", ECCV, 2020 (Kwai). [Paper]
  • HOT-Net: "HOT-Net: Non-Autoregressive Transformer for 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation", ACMMM. 2020 (Kwai). [Paper]
  • TransPose: "TransPose: Towards Explainable Human Pose Estimation by Transformer", arXiv, 2020 (Southeast University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PTF: "Locally Aware Piecewise Transformation Fields for 3D Human Mesh Registration", CVPR, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
  • METRO: "End-to-End Human Pose and Mesh Reconstruction with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PRTR: "Pose Recognition with Cascade Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (UCSD). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Mesh-Graphormer: "Mesh Graphormer", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • THUNDR: "THUNDR: Transformer-based 3D HUmaN Reconstruction with Markers", ICCV, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • PoseFormer: "3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TransPose: "TransPose: Keypoint Localization via Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Southeast University, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SCAT: "SCAT: Stride Consistency With Auto-Regressive Regressor and Transformer for Hand Pose Estimation", ICCVW, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • POTR: "Pose Transformers (POTR): Human Motion Prediction With Non-Autoregressive Transformers", ICCVW, 2021 (Idiap). [Paper]
  • TransFusion: "TransFusion: Cross-view Fusion with Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation", BMVC, 2021 (UC Irvine). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HRT: "HRFormer: High-Resolution Transformer for Dense Prediction", NeurIPS, 2021 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • POET: "End-to-End Trainable Multi-Instance Pose Estimation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (EPFL). [Paper]
  • Lifting-Transformer: "Lifting Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation in Video", arXiv, 2021 (Peking). [Paper]
  • TFPose: "TFPose: Direct Human Pose Estimation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (The University of Adelaide). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Skeletor: "Skeletor: Skeletal Transformers for Robust Body-Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2021 (University of Surrey). [Paper]
  • HandsFormer: "HandsFormer: Keypoint Transformer for Monocular 3D Pose Estimation of Hands and Object in Interaction", arXiv, 2021 (Graz University of Technology). [Paper]
  • TTP: "Test-Time Personalization with a Transformer for Human Pose Estimation", NeurIPS, 2021 (UCSD). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • GraFormer: "GraFormer: Graph Convolution Transformer for 3D Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • GCT: "Geometry-Contrastive Transformer for Generalized 3D Pose Transfer", AAAI, 2022 (University of Oulu). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MHFormer: "MHFormer: Multi-Hypothesis Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation", CVPR, 2022 (Peking). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PAHMT: "Spatial-Temporal Parallel Transformer for Arm-Hand Dynamic Estimation", CVPR, 2022 (NetEase). [Paper]
  • Swin-Pose: "Swin-Pose: Swin Transformer Based Human Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (UMass Lowell) [Paper]
  • Poseur: "Poseur: Direct Human Pose Regression with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Adelaide, Australia). [Paper]
  • HeadPosr: "HeadPosr: End-to-end Trainable Head Pose Estimation using Transformer Encoders", arXiv, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper]
  • CrossFormer: "CrossFormer: Cross Spatio-Temporal Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Canberra University, Australia). [Paper]
• Others:
  • TAPE: "Transformer Guided Geometry Model for Flow-Based Unsupervised Visual Odometry", arXiv, 2020 (Tianjing University). [Paper]
  • T6D-Direct: "T6D-Direct: Transformers for Multi-Object 6D Pose Direct Regression", GCPR, 2021 (University of Bonn). [Paper]
  • 6D-ViT: "6D-ViT: Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation via Transformer-based Instance Representation Learning", arXiv, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]

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Tracking

• TransTrack: "TransTrack: Multiple-Object Tracking with Transformer",arXiv, 2020 (HKU + ByteDance) . [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransformerTrack: "Transformer Meets Tracker: Exploiting Temporal Context for Robust Visual Tracking", CVPR, 2021 (USTC). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransT: "Transformer Tracking", CVPR, 2021 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STARK: "Learning Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Visual Tracking", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HiFT: "HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking", ICCV, 2021 (Tongji University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DTT: "High-Performance Discriminative Tracking With Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• DualTFR: "Learning Tracking Representations via Dual-Branch Fully Transformer Networks", ICCVW, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• TrackFormer: "TrackFormer: Multi-Object Tracking with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper]
• TransCenter: "TransCenter: Transformers with Dense Queries for Multiple-Object Tracking", arXiv, 2021 (INRIA + MIT). [Paper]
• TransMOT: "TransMOT: Spatial-Temporal Graph Transformer for Multiple Object Tracking", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• TREG: "Target Transformed Regression for Accurate Tracking", arXiv, 2021 (Nanjing University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MOTR: "MOTR: End-to-End Multiple-Object Tracking with TRansformer", arXiv, 2021 (MEGVII). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TrTr: "TrTr: Visual Tracking with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (University of Tokyo). [Paper][Pytorch]
• RelationTrack: "RelationTrack: Relation-aware Multiple Object Tracking with Decoupled Representation", arXiv, 2021 (Huazhong Univerisity of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• SiamTPN: "Siamese Transformer Pyramid Networks for Real-Time UAV Tracking", WACV, 2022 (New York University). [Paper]
• MixFormer: "MixFormer: End-to-End Tracking with Iterative Mixed Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ToMP: "Transforming Model Prediction for Tracking", CVPR, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GTR: "Global Tracking Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UTT: "Unified Transformer Tracker for Object Tracking", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MeMOT: "MeMOT: Multi-Object Tracking with Memory", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
• TransT-M: "High-Performance Transformer Tracking", arXiv, 2022 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper]
• HCAT: "Efficient Visual Tracking via Hierarchical Cross-Attention Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper]
• ?: "Keypoints Tracking via Transformer Networks", arXiv, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Re-ID

• PAT: "Diverse Part Discovery: Occluded Person Re-Identification With Part-Aware Transformer", CVPR, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• HAT: "HAT: Hierarchical Aggregation Transformers for Person Re-identification", ACMMM, 2021 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper]
• TransReID: "TransReID: Transformer-based Object Re-Identification", ICCV, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
• APD: "Transformer Meets Part Model: Adaptive Part Division for Person Re-Identification", ICCVW, 2021 (Meituan). [Paper]
• Pirt: "Pose-guided Inter- and Intra-part Relational Transformer for Occluded Person Re-Identification", ACMMM, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• TransMatcher: "Transformer-Based Deep Image Matching for Generalizable Person Re-identification", NeurIPS, 2021 (IIAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STT: "Spatiotemporal Transformer for Video-based Person Re-identification", arXiv, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• AAformer: "AAformer: Auto-Aligned Transformer for Person Re-Identification", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• TMT: "A Video Is Worth Three Views: Trigeminal Transformers for Video-based Person Re-identification", arXiv, 2021 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper]
• LA-Transformer: "Person Re-Identification with a Locally Aware Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (University of Maryland Baltimore County). [Paper]
• DRL-Net: "Learning Disentangled Representation Implicitly via Transformer for Occluded Person Re-Identification", arXiv, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper]
• GiT: "GiT: Graph Interactive Transformer for Vehicle Re-identification", arXiv, 2021 (Huaqiao University). [Paper]
• OH-Former: "OH-Former: Omni-Relational High-Order Transformer for Person Re-Identification", arXiv, 2021 (Shanghaitech University). [Paper]
• CMTR: "CMTR: Cross-modality Transformer for Visible-infrared Person Re-identification", arXiv, 2021 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [Paper]
• PFD: "Pose-guided Feature Disentangling for Occluded Person Re-identification Based on Transformer", AAAI, 2022 (Peking). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PiT: "Multi-direction and Multi-scale Pyramid in Transformer for Video-based Pedestrian Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022 (* Peking*). [Paper]
• ?: "Motion-Aware Transformer For Occluded Person Re-identification", arXiv, 2022 (NetEase, China). [Paper]
• PFT: "Short Range Correlation Transformer for Occluded Person Re-Identification", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]

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Face

• General:
  • FAU-Transformer: "Facial Action Unit Detection With Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Rakuten Institute of Technology). [Paper]
  • Clusformer: "Clusformer: A Transformer Based Clustering Approach to Unsupervised Large-Scale Face and Visual Landmark Recognition", CVPR, 2021 (VinAI Research, Vietnam). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • Latent-Transformer: "A Latent Transformer for Disentangled Face Editing in Images and Videos", ICCV, 2021 (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TADeT: "Mitigating Bias in Visual Transformers via Targeted Alignment", BMVC, 2021 (Gerogia Tech). [Paper]
  • ViT-Face: "Face Transformer for Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
  • TransRPPG: "TransRPPG: Remote Photoplethysmography Transformer for 3D Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection", arXiv, 2021 (University of Oulu). [Paper]
  • FaceT: "Learning to Cluster Faces via Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • VidFace: "VidFace: A Full-Transformer Solver for Video Face Hallucination with Unaligned Tiny Snapshots", arXiv, 2021 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
  • FAA: "Shuffle Transformer with Feature Alignment for Video Face Parsing", arXiv, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper]
  • LOTR: "LOTR: Face Landmark Localization Using Localization Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Sertis, Thailand). [Paper]
  • FAT: "Facial Attribute Transformers for Precise and Robust Makeup Transfer", WACV, 2022 (University of Rochester). [Paper]
  • SSAT: "SSAT: A Symmetric Semantic-Aware Transformer Network for Makeup Transfer and Removal", AAAI, 2022 (Wuhan University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ICT: "Protecting Celebrities with Identity Consistency Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
  • SLPT: "Sparse Local Patch Transformer for Robust Face Alignment and Landmarks Inherent Relation Learning", CVPR, 2022 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TransEditor: "TransEditor: Transformer-Based Dual-Space GAN for Highly Controllable Facial Editing", CVPR, 2022 (Shanghai AI La). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • RestoreFormer: "RestoreFormer: High-Quality Blind Face Restoration From Undegraded Key-Value Pairs", arXiv, 2022 (HKU). [Paper]
  • EventFormer: "EventFormer: AU Event Transformer for Facial Action Unit Event Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Peking). [Paper]
  • MFT: "Multi-Modal Learning for AU Detection Based on Multi-Head Fused Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (SUNY Binghamton). [Paper]
  • VC-TRSF: "Self-supervised Video-centralised Transformer for Video Face Clustering", arXiv, 2022 (ICL). [Paper]
• Facial Expression:
  • TransFER: "TransFER: Learning Relation-aware Facial Expression Representations with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • CVT-Face: "Robust Facial Expression Recognition with Convolutional Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Hunan University). [Paper]
  • MViT: "MViT: Mask Vision Transformer for Facial Expression Recognition in the wild", arXiv, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
  • ViT-SE: "Learning Vision Transformer with Squeeze and Excitation for Facial Expression Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (CentraleSupélec, France). [Paper]
  • EST: "Expression Snippet Transformer for Robust Video-based Facial Expression Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (China University of Geosciences). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MFEViT: "MFEViT: A Robust Lightweight Transformer-based Network for Multimodal 2D+3D Facial Expression Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
  • F-PDLS: "Vision Transformer Equipped with Neural Resizer on Facial Expression Recognition Task", ICASSP, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
  • ?: "Transformer-based Multimodal Information Fusion for Facial Expression Analysis", arXiv, 2022 (Netease, China). [Paper]
  • ?: "Facial Expression Recognition with Swin Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Dongguk University, Korea). [Paper]
  • POSTER: "POSTER: A Pyramid Cross-Fusion Transformer Network for Facial Expression Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (UCF). [Paper]
• Attack-related:
  • ?: "Video Transformer for Deepfake Detection with Incremental Learning", ACMMM, 2021 (MBZUAI). [Paper]
  • ViTranZFAS: "On the Effectiveness of Vision Transformers for Zero-shot Face Anti-Spoofing", International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2021 (Idiap). [Paper]
  • MTSS: "Multi-Teacher Single-Student Visual Transformer with Multi-Level Attention for Face Spoofing Detection", BMVC, 2021 (National Taiwan Ocean University). [Paper]
  • CViT: "Deepfake Video Detection Using Convolutional Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Jimma University). [Paper]
  • ViT-Distill: "Deepfake Detection Scheme Based on Vision Transformer and Distillation", arXiv, 2021 (Sookmyung Women’s University). [Paper]
  • M2TR: "M2TR: Multi-modal Multi-scale Transformers for Deepfake Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Fudan University). [Paper]
  • Cross-ViT: "Combining EfficientNet and Vision Transformers for Video Deepfake Detection", arXiv, 2021 (University of Pisa). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Self-supervised Transformer for Deepfake Detection", arXiv, 2022 (USTC, China). [Paper]
  • ViTransPAD: "ViTransPAD: Video Transformer using convolution and self-attention for Face Presentation Attack Detection", arXiv, 2022 (University of La Rochelle, France). [Paper]
  • ViTAF: "Adaptive Transformers for Robust Few-shot Cross-domain Face Anti-spoofing", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]

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Neural Architecture Search

• HR-NAS: "HR-NAS: Searching Efficient High-Resolution Neural Architectures with Lightweight Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (HKU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CATE: "CATE: Computation-aware Neural Architecture Encoding with Transformers", ICML, 2021 (Michigan State University). [Paper]
• AutoFormer: "AutoFormer: Searching Transformers for Visual Recognition", ICCV, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GLiT: "GLiT: Neural Architecture Search for Global and Local Image Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (The University of Sydney + SenseTime). [Paper]
• BossNAS: "BossNAS: Exploring Hybrid CNN-transformers with Block-wisely Self-supervised Neural Architecture Search", ICCV, 2021 (Monash University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AutoformerV2: "Searching the Search Space of Vision Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TNASP: "TNASP: A Transformer-based NAS Predictor with a Self-evolution Framework", NeurIPS, 2021 (CAS + Kuaishou). [Paper]
• ViTAS: "Vision Transformer Architecture Search", arXiv, 2021 (The University of Sydney + SenseTime). [Paper]
• PSViT: "PSViT: Better Vision Transformer via Token Pooling and Attention Sharing", arXiv, 2021 (The University of Sydney + SenseTime). [Paper]
• ViT-ResNAS: "Searching for Efficient Multi-Stage Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (MIT). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UniNet: "UniNet: Unified Architecture Search with Convolution, Transformer, and MLP", arXiv, 2021 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper]
• As-ViT: "Auto-scaling Vision Transformers without Training", ICLR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• NASViT: "NASViT: Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Vision Transformers with Gradient Conflict aware Supernet Training", ICLR, 2022 (Facebook). [Paper]
• TF-TAS: "Training-free Transformer Architecture Search", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• ViT-Slim: "Vision Transformer Slimming: Multi-Dimension Searching in Continuous Optimization Space", arXiv, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper]
• VTCAS: "Vision Transformer with Convolutions Architecture Search", arXiv, 2022 (Donghua University). [Paper]

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Transfer / X-Supervised / X-Shot Learning

• Domain Adaptation/Generalization:
  • TransDA: "Transformer-Based Source-Free Domain Adaptation", arXiv, 2021 (Haerbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TVT: "TVT: Transferable Vision Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation", arXiv, 2021 (UT Arlington + Kuaishou). [Paper]
  • ResTran: "Discovering Spatial Relationships by Transformers for Domain Generalization", arXiv, 2021 (MBZUAI). [Paper]
  • WinTR: "Exploiting Both Domain-specific and Invariant Knowledge via a Win-win Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation", arXiv, 2021 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper]
  • CDTrans: "CDTrans: Cross-domain Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation", ICLR, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • BCAT: "Domain Adaptation via Bidirectional Cross-Attention Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Southern University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
  • DoTNet: "Towards Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Domain-Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Sun Yat-Sen University). [Paper]
  • TransDA: "Smoothing Matters: Momentum Transformer for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • FAMLP: "FAMLP: A Frequency-Aware MLP-Like Architecture For Domain Generalization", arXiv, 2022 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• X-Shot:
  • CrossTransformer: "CrossTransformers: spatially-aware few-shot transfer", NeurIPS, 2020 (DeepMind). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • URT: "A Universal Representation Transformer Layer for Few-Shot Image Classification", ICLR, 2021 (Mila). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TRX: "Temporal-Relational CrossTransformers for Few-Shot Action Recognition", CVPR, 2021 (University of Bristol). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Few-shot-Transformer: "Few-Shot Transformation of Common Actions into Time and Space", arXiv, 2021 (University of Amsterdam). [Paper]
  • HyperTransformer: "HyperTransformer: Model Generation for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • ViT-ZSL: "Multi-Head Self-Attention via Vision Transformer for Zero-Shot Learning", IMVIP, 2021 (University of Exeter, UK). [Paper]
  • TransZero: "TransZero: Attribute-guided Transformer for Zero-Shot Learning", AAAI, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SUN: "Self-Promoted Supervision for Few-Shot Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Harbin Institute of Technology + NUS). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HRT: "Hybrid Routing Transformer for Zero-Shot Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Xidian University). [Paper]

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Low-level Vision Tasks

Image Restoration

(e.g. super-resolution, image denoising, demosaicing, compression artifacts reduction, etc.)

• NLRN: "Non-Local Recurrent Network for Image Restoration", NeurIPS, 2018 (UIUC). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• RNAN: "Residual Non-local Attention Networks for Image Restoration", ICLR, 2019 (Northeastern University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SAN: "Second-Order Attention Network for Single Image Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2019 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CS-NL: "Image Super-Resolution with Cross-Scale Non-Local Attention and Exhaustive Self-Exemplars Mining", CVPR, 2020 (UIUC). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TTSR: "Learning Texture Transformer Network for Image Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2020 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HAN: "Single Image Super-Resolution via a Holistic Attention Network", ECCV, 2020 (Northeastern University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PANet: "Pyramid Attention Networks for Image Restoration", arXiv, 2020 (UIUC). [Paper][PyTorch]
• IPT: "Pre-Trained Image Processing Transformer", CVPR, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• NLSN: "Image Super-Resolution With Non-Local Sparse Attention", CVPR, 2021 (UIUC). [Paper]
• SwinIR: "SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer", ICCVW, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ITSRN: "Implicit Transformer Network for Screen Content Image Continuous Super-Resolution", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tianjin University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SDNet: "SDNet: multi-branch for single image deraining using swin", arXiv, 2021 (Xinjiang University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• FPAN: "Feedback Pyramid Attention Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2021 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• ATTSF: "Attention! Stay Focus!", arXiv, 2021 (BridgeAI, Seoul). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• ESRT: "Efficient Transformer for Single Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper]
• Fusformer: "Fusformer: A Transformer-based Fusion Approach for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution", arXiv, 2021 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• HyLoG-ViT: "Hybrid Local-Global Transformer for Image Dehazing", arXiv, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• TANet: "TANet: A new Paradigm for Global Face Super-resolution via Transformer-CNN Aggregation Network", arXiv, 2021 (Wuhan Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• DPT: "Detail-Preserving Transformer for Light Field Image Super-Resolution", AAAI, 2022 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SiamTrans: "SiamTrans: Zero-Shot Multi-Frame Image Restoration with Pre-Trained Siamese Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
• Uformer: "Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration", CVPR, 2022 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MAXIM: "MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• HyperTransformer: "HyperTransformer: A Textural and Spectral Feature Fusion Transformer for Pansharpening", CVPR, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LFT: "Light Field Image Super-Resolution with Transformers", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022 (National University of Defense Technology, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ELAN: "Efficient Long-Range Attention Network for Image Super-resolution", arXiv, 2022 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• ACT: "Rich CNN-Transformer Feature Aggregation Networks for Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (LG). [Paper]
• ?: "Transform your Smartphone into a DSLR Camera: Learning the ISP in the Wild", arXiv, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper]
• HIPA: "HIPA: Hierarchical Patch Transformer for Single Image Super Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
• DehazeFormer: "Vision Transformers for Single Image Dehazing", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Stripformer: "Stripformer: Strip Transformer for Fast Image Deblurring", arXiv, 2022 (NTHU). [Paper]

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Video Restoration

• VSR-Transformer: "Video Super-Resolution Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MANA: "Memory-Augmented Non-Local Attention for Video Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2021 (JD). [Paper]
• ?: "Bringing Old Films Back to Life", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• TTVSR: "Learning Trajectory-Aware Transformer for Video Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VRT: "VRT: A Video Restoration Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FGST: "Flow-Guided Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• STDAN: "STDAN: Deformable Attention Network for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• RSTT: "RSTT: Real-time Spatial Temporal Transformer for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Inpainting/Completion/Outpainting

• Contexual-Attention: "Generative Image Inpainting with Contextual Attention", CVPR, 2018 (UIUC). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• PEN-Net: "Learning Pyramid-Context Encoder Network for High-Quality Image Inpainting", CVPR, 2019 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Copy-Paste: "Copy-and-Paste Networks for Deep Video Inpainting", ICCV, 2019 (Yonsei University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Onion-Peel: "Onion-Peel Networks for Deep Video Completion", ICCV, 2019 (Yonsei University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STTN: "Learning Joint Spatial-Temporal Transformations for Video Inpainting", ECCV, 2020 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FuseFormer: "FuseFormer: Fusing Fine-Grained Information in Transformers for Video Inpainting", ICCV, 2021 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ICT: "High-Fidelity Pluralistic Image Completion with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• DSTT: "Decoupled Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Video Inpainting", arXiv, 2021 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• TFill: "TFill: Image Completion via a Transformer-Based Architecture", arXiv, 2021 (NTU Singapore). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• BAT-Fill: "Diverse Image Inpainting with Bidirectional and Autoregressive Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (NTU Singapore). [Paper]
• ?: "Image-Adaptive Hint Generation via Vision Transformer for Outpainting", WACV, 2022 (Sogang University, Korea). [Paper]
• ZITS: "Incremental Transformer Structure Enhanced Image Inpainting with Masking Positional Encoding", CVPR, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MAT: "MAT: Mask-Aware Transformer for Large Hole Image Inpainting", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• U-Transformer: "Generalised Image Outpainting with U-Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). [Paper]

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Image Generation

• IT: "Image Transformer", ICML, 2018 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• PixelSNAIL: "PixelSNAIL: An Improved Autoregressive Generative Model", ICML, 2018 (Berkeley). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• BigGAN: "Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis", ICLR, 2019 (DeepMind). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SAGAN: "Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Networks", ICML, 2019 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• VQGAN: "Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis", CVPR, 2021 (Heidelberg University). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• ?: "High-Resolution Complex Scene Synthesis with Transformers", CVPRW, 2021 (Heidelberg University). [Paper]
• GANsformer: "Generative Adversarial Transformers", ICML, 2021 (Stanford + Facebook). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• PixelTransformer: "PixelTransformer: Sample Conditioned Signal Generation", ICML, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][Website]
• HWT: "Handwriting Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (MBZUAI). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Paint-Transformer: "Paint Transformer: Feed Forward Neural Painting with Stroke Prediction", ICCV, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper][Paddle][PyTorch]
• Geometry-Free: "Geometry-Free View Synthesis: Transformers and no 3D Priors", ICCV, 2021 (Heidelberg University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VTGAN: "VTGAN: Semi-supervised Retinal Image Synthesis and Disease Prediction using Vision Transformers", ICCVW, 2021 (University of Nevada, Reno). [Paper]
• ATISS: "ATISS: Autoregressive Transformers for Indoor Scene Synthesis", NeurIPS, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper][Website]
• GANsformer2: "Compositional Transformers for Scene Generation", NeurIPS, 2021 (Stanford + Facebook). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• TransGAN: "TransGAN: Two Transformers Can Make One Strong GAN", NeurIPS, 2021 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HiT: "Improved Transformer for High-Resolution GANs", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• iLAT: "The Image Local Autoregressive Transformer", NeurIPS, 2021 (Fudan). [Paper]
• TokenGAN: "Improving Visual Quality of Image Synthesis by A Token-based Generator with Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• SceneFormer: "SceneFormer: Indoor Scene Generation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (TUM). [Paper]
• SNGAN: "Combining Transformer Generators with Convolutional Discriminators", arXiv, 2021 (Fraunhofer ITWM). [Paper]
• Styleformer: "Styleformer: Transformer based Generative Adversarial Networks with Style Vector", arXiv, 2021 (Seoul National University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Invertible-Attention: "Invertible Attention", arXiv, 2021 (ANU). [Paper]
• GPA: "Grid Partitioned Attention: Efficient Transformer Approximation with Inductive Bias for High Resolution Detail Generation", arXiv, 2021 (Zalando Research, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• StyleSwin: "StyleSwin: Transformer-based GAN for High-resolution Image Generation", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• ViTGAN: "ViTGAN: Training GANs with Vision Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (wilile26811249)]
• ViT-VQGAN: "Vector-quantized Image Modeling with Improved VQGAN", ICLR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• Style-Transformer: "Style Transformer for Image Inversion and Editing", CVPR, 2022 (East China Normal University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• U-Attention: "Paying U-Attention to Textures: Multi-Stage Hourglass Vision Transformer for Universal Texture Synthesis", arXiv, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper]
• MaskGIT: "MaskGIT: Masked Generative Image Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (dome272)]
• ViT-Patch: "A Robust Framework of Chromosome Straightening with ViT-Patch GAN", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). [Paper]
• ViewFormer: "ViewFormer: NeRF-free Neural Rendering from Few Images Using Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Czech Technical University in Prague). [Paper][Tensorflow]

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Video Generation

• Subscale: "Scaling Autoregressive Video Models", ICLR, 2020 (Google). [Paper][Website]
• ConvTransformer: "ConvTransformer: A Convolutional Transformer Network for Video Frame Synthesis", arXiv, 2020 (Southeast University). [Paper]
• OCVT: "Generative Video Transformer: Can Objects be the Words?", ICML, 2021 (Rutgers University). [Paper]
• AIST++: "Learn to Dance with AIST++: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation", arXiv, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Code][Website]
• VideoGPT: "VideoGPT: Video Generation using VQ-VAE and Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Berkeley). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• DanceFormer: "DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer", AAAI, 2022 (Huiye Technology, China). [Paper]
• Transframer: "Transframer: Arbitrary Frame Prediction with Generative Models", arXiv, 2022 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• TATS: "Long Video Generation with Time-Agnostic VQGAN and Time-Sensitive Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Maryland). [Paper][Website]

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Transfer/Translation/Manipulation

• AdaAttN: "AdaAttN: Revisit Attention Mechanism in Arbitrary Neural Style Transfer", ICCV, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper][Paddle][PyTorch]
• StyTr2: "StyTr^2: Unbiased Image Style Transfer with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• InstaFormer: "InstaFormer: Instance-Aware Image-to-Image Translation with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Korea University). [Paper]
• ManiTrans: "ManiTrans: Entity-Level Text-Guided Image Manipulation via Token-wise Semantic Alignment and Generation", CVPR, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper][Website]
• Splice: "Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer", arXiv, 2022 (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• UVCGAN: "UVCGAN: UNet Vision Transformer cycle-consistent GAN for unpaired image-to-image translation", arXiv, 2022 (Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY). [Paper]
• ITTR: "ITTR: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Kuaishou). [Paper]

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Other Low-Level Tasks

• Colorization:
  • ColTran: "Colorization Transformer", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • ViT-I-GAN: "ViT-Inception-GAN for Image Colourising", arXiv, 2021 (D.Y Patil College of Engineering, India). [Paper]
• Enhancement:
  • STAR: "STAR: A Structure-Aware Lightweight Transformer for Real-Time Image Enhancement", ICCV, 2021 (CUHK + SenseBrain). [Paper]
  • PanFormer: "PanFormer: a Transformer Based Model for Pan-sharpening", ICME, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Harmonization:
  • HT: "Image Harmonization With Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Ocean University of China). [Paper]
• Image Compression:
  • ?: "Towards End-to-End Image Compression and Analysis with Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (1Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Entroformer: "Entroformer: A Transformer-based Entropy Model for Learned Image Compression", ICLR, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • Contextformer: "Contextformer: A Transformer with Spatio-Channel Attention for Context Modeling in Learned Image Compression", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]
• Matting:
  • MatteFormer: "MatteFormer: Transformer-Based Image Matting via Prior-Tokens", arXiv, 2022 (SNU + NAVER). [Paper]
• Reconstruction
  • ET-Net: "Event-Based Video Reconstruction Using Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • GradViT: "GradViT: Gradient Inversion of Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][Website]
• Others:
  • MS-Unet: "Semi-Supervised Wide-Angle Portraits Correction by Multi-Scale Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (MEGVII). [Paper]
  • TransMEF: "TransMEF: A Transformer-Based Multi-Exposure Image Fusion Framework using Self-Supervised Multi-Task Learning", AAAI, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper]
  • GAP-CSCoT: "Spectral Compressive Imaging Reconstruction Using Convolution and Spectral Contextual Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
  • CST: "Coarse-to-Fine Sparse Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]

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Reinforcement Learning

Navigation

• VTNet: "VTNet: Visual Transformer Network for Object Goal Navigation", ICLR, 2021 (ANU). [Paper]
• MaAST: "MaAST: Map Attention with Semantic Transformersfor Efficient Visual Navigation", ICRA, 2021 (SRI). [Paper]
• TransFuser: "Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Driving", CVPR, 2021 (MPI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CMTP: "Topological Planning With Transformers for Vision-and-Language Navigation", CVPR, 2021 (Stanford). [Paper]
• VLN-BERT: "VLN-BERT: A Recurrent Vision-and-Language BERT for Navigation", CVPR, 2021 (ANU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• E.T.: "Episodic Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation", ICCV, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HAMT: "History Aware Multimodal Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation", NeurIPS, 2021 (INRIA). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• SOAT: "SOAT: A Scene- and Object-Aware Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation", NeurIPS, 2021 (Georgia Tech). [Paper]
• OMT: "Object Memory Transformer for Object Goal Navigation", ICRA, 2022 (AIST, Japan). [Paper]
• DUET: "Think Global, Act Local: Dual-scale Graph Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation", arXiv, 2022 (INRIA). [Paper][Website]

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Other RL Tasks

• SVEA: "Stabilizing Deep Q-Learning with ConvNets and Vision Transformers under Data Augmentation", arXiv, 2021 (UCSD). [Paper][GitHub][Website]
• LocoTransformer: "Learning Vision-Guided Quadrupedal Locomotion End-to-End with Cross-Modal Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (UCSD). [Paper][Website]
• STAM: "Consistency driven Sequential Transformers Attention Model for Partially Observable Scenes", CVPR, 2022 (McGill University, Canada). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RAD: "Evaluating Vision Transformer Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning from Pixels", arXiv, 2022 (UBC, Canada). [Paper]

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Medical

Medical Segmentation

• Cross-Transformer: "The entire network structure of Crossmodal Transformer", ICBSIP, 2021 (Capital Medical University). [Paper]
• Segtran: "Medical Image Segmentation using Squeeze-and-Expansion Transformers", IJCAI, 2021 (A*STAR). [Paper]
• i-ViT: "Instance-based Vision Transformer for Subtyping of Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma in Histopathological Image", MICCAI, 2021 (Xi'an Jiaotong University). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• UTNet: "UTNet: A Hybrid Transformer Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation", MICCAI, 2021 (Rutgers). [Paper]
• MCTrans: "Multi-Compound Transformer for Accurate Biomedical Image Segmentation", MICCAI, 2021 (HKU + CUHK). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Polyformer: "Few-Shot Domain Adaptation with Polymorphic Transformers", MICCAI, 2021 (A*STAR). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BA-Transformer: "Boundary-aware Transformers for Skin Lesion Segmentation". MICCAI, 2021 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GT-U-Net: "GT U-Net: A U-Net Like Group Transformer Network for Tooth Root Segmentation", MICCAIW, 2021 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STN: "Automatic size and pose homogenization with spatial transformer network to improve and accelerate pediatric segmentation", ISBI, 2021 (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). [Paper]
• T-AutoML: "T-AutoML: Automated Machine Learning for Lesion Segmentation Using Transformers in 3D Medical Imaging", ICCV, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper]
• MedT: "Medical Transformer: Gated Axial-Attention for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Convolution-Free: "Convolution-Free Medical Image Segmentation using Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Harvard). [Paper]
• CoTR: "CoTr: Efficiently Bridging CNN and Transformer for 3D Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Northwestern Polytechnical University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransBTS: "TransBTS: Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (University of Science and Technology Beijing). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SpecTr: "SpecTr: Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Pathology Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (East China Normal University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• U-Transformer: "U-Net Transformer: Self and Cross Attention for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (CEDRIC). [Paper]
• TransUNet: "TransUNet: Transformers Make Strong Encoders for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PMTrans: "Pyramid Medical Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Washington University in St. Louis). [Paper]
• PBT-Net: "Anatomy-Guided Parallel Bottleneck Transformer Network for Automated Evaluation of Root Canal Therapy", arXiv, 2021 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper]
• Swin-Unet: "Swin-Unet: Unet-like Pure Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MBT-Net: "A Multi-Branch Hybrid Transformer Networkfor Corneal Endothelial Cell Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Southern University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• WAD: "More than Encoder: Introducing Transformer Decoder to Upsample", arXiv, 2021 (South China University of Technology). [Paper]
• LeViT-UNet: "LeViT-UNet: Make Faster Encoders with Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Wuhan Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• Polyp-PVT: "Polyp-PVT: Polyp Segmentation with Pyramid Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (IIAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Evaluating Transformer based Semantic Segmentation Networks for Pathological Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (Vanderbilt University). [Paper]
• nnFormer: "nnFormer: Interleaved Transformer for Volumetric Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (HKU + Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MISSFormer: "MISSFormer: An Effective Medical Image Segmentation Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• TUnet: "Transformer-Unet: Raw Image Processing with Unet", arXiv, 2021 (Beijing Zoezen Robot + Beihang University). [Paper]
• BiTr-Unet: "BiTr-Unet: a CNN-Transformer Combined Network for MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (New York University). [Paper]
• ?: "Transformer Assisted Convolutional Network for Cell Instance Segmentation", arXiv, 2021 (IIT Dhanbad). [Paper]
• ?: "Combining CNNs With Transformer for Multimodal 3D MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation With Self-Supervised Pretraining", arXiv, 2021 (Ukrainian Catholic University). [Paper]
• UNETR: "UNETR: Transformers for 3D Medical Image Segmentation", WACV, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AFTer-UNet: "AFTer-UNet: Axial Fusion Transformer UNet for Medical Image Segmentation", WACV, 2022 (UC Irvine). [Paper]
• UCTransNet: "UCTransNet: Rethinking the Skip Connections in U-Net from a Channel-wise Perspective with Transformer", AAAI, 2022 (Northeastern University, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Tempera: "Tempera: Spatial Transformer Feature Pyramid Network for Cardiac MRI Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (ICL). [Paper]
• UTNetV2: "A Multi-scale Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation: Architectures, Model Efficiency, and Benchmarks", arXiv, 2022 (Rutgers). [Paper]
• UNesT: "Characterizing Renal Structures with 3D Block Aggregate Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee). [Paper]
• PHTrans: "PHTrans: Parallelly Aggregating Global and Local Representations for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• UNeXt: "UNeXt: MLP-based Rapid Medical Image Segmentation Network", arXiv, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransFusion: "TransFusion: Multi-view Divergent Fusion for Medical Image Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Rutgers). [Paper]
• UNetFormer: "UNetFormer: A Unified Vision Transformer Model and Pre-Training Framework for 3D Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][GitHub]

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Medical Classification

• COVID19T: "A Transformer-Based Framework for Automatic COVID19 Diagnosis in Chest CTs", ICCVW, 2021 (?). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransMIL: "TransMIL: Transformer based Correlated Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classication", NeurIPS, 2021 (Tsinghua University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransMed: "TransMed: Transformers Advance Multi-modal Medical Image Classification", arXiv, 2021 (Northeastern University). [Paper]
• CXR-ViT: "Vision Transformer using Low-level Chest X-ray Feature Corpus for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Severity Quantification", arXiv, 2021 (KAIST). [Paper]
• ViT-TSA: "Shoulder Implant X-Ray Manufacturer Classification: Exploring with Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Queen’s University). [Paper]
• GasHis-Transformer: "GasHis-Transformer: A Multi-scale Visual Transformer Approach for Gastric Histopathology Image Classification", arXiv, 2021 (Northeastern University). [Paper]
• POCFormer: "POCFormer: A Lightweight Transformer Architecture for Detection of COVID-19 Using Point of Care Ultrasound", arXiv, 2021 (The Ohio State University). [Paper]
• COVID-ViT: "COVID-VIT: Classification of COVID-19 from CT chest images based on vision transformer models", arXiv, 2021 (Middlesex University, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EEG-ConvTransformer: "EEG-ConvTransformer for Single-Trial EEG based Visual Stimuli Classification", arXiv, 2021 (IIT Ropar). [Paper]
• CCAT: "Visual Transformer with Statistical Test for COVID-19 Classification", arXiv, 2021 (NCKU). [Paper]
• ScoreNet: "ScoreNet: Learning Non-Uniform Attention and Augmentation for Transformer-Based Histopathological Image Classification", arXiv, 2022 (EPFL). [Paper]
• RadioTransformer: "RadioTransformer: A Cascaded Global-Focal Transformer for Visual Attention-guided Disease Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Stony Brook). [Paper]

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Medical Detection

• COTR: "COTR: Convolution in Transformer Network for End to End Polyp Detection", arXiv, 2021 (Fuzhou University). [Paper]
• TR-Net: "Transformer Network for Significant Stenosis Detection in CCTA of Coronary Arteries", arXiv, 2021 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• CAE-Transformer: "CAE-Transformer: Transformer-based Model to Predict Invasiveness of Lung Adenocarcinoma Subsolid Nodules from Non-thin Section 3D CT Scans", arXiv, 2021 (Concordia University, Canada). [Paper]
• DATR: "DATR: Domain-adaptive transformer for multi-domain landmark detection", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• SATr: "SATr: Slice Attention with Transformer for Universal Lesion Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]

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Medical Reconstruction

• T²Net: "Task Transformer Network for Joint MRI Reconstruction and Super-Resolution", MICCAI, 2021 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FIT: "Fourier Image Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (MPI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SLATER: "Unsupervised MRI Reconstruction via Zero-Shot Learned Adversarial Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Bilkent University). [Paper]
• MTrans: "MTrans: Multi-Modal Transformer for Accelerated MR Imaging", arXiv, 2021 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Adaptively Re-weighting Multi-Loss Untrained Transformer for Sparse-View Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang Lab). [Paper]

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Medical Low-Level Vision

• Eformer: "Eformer: Edge Enhancement based Transformer for Medical Image Denoising", ICCV, 2021 (BITS Pilani, India). [Paper]
• PTNet: "PTNet: A High-Resolution Infant MRI Synthesizer Based on Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (* Columbia *). [Paper]
• ResViT: "ResViT: Residual vision transformers for multi-modal medical image synthesis", arXiv, 2021 (Bilkent University, Turkey). [Paper]
• CyTran: "CyTran: Cycle-Consistent Transformers for Non-Contrast to Contrast CT Translation", arXiv, 2021 (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania). [Paper][PyTorch]
• McMRSR: "Transformer-empowered Multi-scale Contextual Matching and Aggregation for Multi-contrast MRI Super-resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Yantai University, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RFormer: "RFormer: Transformer-based Generative Adversarial Network for Real Fundus Image Restoration on A New Clinical Benchmark", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• CTformer: "CTformer: Convolution-free Token2Token Dilated Vision Transformer for Low-dose CT Denoising", arXiv, 2022 (UMass Lowell). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Cohf-T: "Cross-Modality High-Frequency Transformer for MR Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (Xidian University). [Paper]
• SIST: "Low-Dose CT Denoising via Sinogram Inner-Structure Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (?). [Paper]

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Medical Others

• LAT: "Lesion-Aware Transformers for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading", CVPR, 2021 (USTC). [Paper]
• UVT: "Ultrasound Video Transformers for Cardiac Ejection Fraction Estimation", MICCAI, 2021 (ICL). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Surgical Instruction Generation with Transformers", MICCAI, 2021 (Bournemouth University, UK). [Paper]
• AlignTransformer: "AlignTransformer: Hierarchical Alignment of Visual Regions and Disease Tags for Medical Report Generation", MICCAI, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper]
• MCAT: "Multimodal Co-Attention Transformer for Survival Prediction in Gigapixel Whole Slide Images", ICCV, 2021 (Harvard). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Is it Time to Replace CNNs with Transformers for Medical Images?", ICCVW, 2021 (KTH, Sweden). [Paper]
• HAT-Net: "HAT-Net: A Hierarchical Transformer Graph Neural Network for Grading of Colorectal Cancer Histology Images", BMVC, 2021 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• ?: "Federated Split Vision Transformer for COVID-19 CXR Diagnosis using Task-Agnostic Training", NeurIPS, 2021 (KAIST). [Paper]
• ViT-Path: "Self-Supervised Vision Transformers Learn Visual Concepts in Histopathology", NeurIPSW, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• Global-Local-Transformer: "Global-Local Transformer for Brain Age Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2021 (Harvard). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CE-TFE: "Deep Transformers for Fast Small Intestine Grounding in Capsule Endoscope Video", arXiv, 2021 (Sun Yat-Sen University). [Paper]
• DeepProg: "DeepProg: A Transformer-based Framework for Predicting Disease Prognosis", arXiv, 2021 (University of Oulu). [Paper]
• ViT-V-Net: "ViT-V-Net: Vision Transformer for Unsupervised Volumetric Medical Image Registration", arXiv, 2021 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Medical-Transformer: "Medical Transformer: Universal Brain Encoder for 3D MRI Analysis", arXiv, 2021 (Korea University). [Paper]
• RATCHET: "RATCHET: Medical Transformer for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Reporting", arXiv, 2021 (ICL). [Paper]
• C2FViT: "Affine Medical Image Registration with Coarse-to-Fine Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (HKUST). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• CSM: "Contrastive Transformer-based Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Polyp Frame Detection", arXiv, 2022 (University of Adelaide, Australia). [Paper]
• SiT: "Surface Vision Transformers: Attention-Based Modelling applied to Cortical Analysis", Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2022 (King’s College London, UK). [Paper]
• SiT: "Surface Vision Transformers: Flexible Attention-Based Modelling of Biomedical Surfaces", arXiv, 2022 (King’s College London, UK). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]

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Other Tasks

• Active Learning:
  • TJLS: "Visual Transformer for Task-aware Active Learning", arXiv, 2021 (ICL). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Animation-related:
  • AnT: "The Animation Transformer: Visual Correspondence via Segment Matching", ICCV, 2021 (Cadmium). [Paper]
  • AniFormer: "AniFormer: Data-driven 3D Animation with Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (University of Oulu, Finland). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Biology:
  • ?: "A State-of-the-art Survey of Object Detection Techniques in Microorganism Image Analysis: from Traditional Image Processing and Classical Machine Learning to Current Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Potential Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Northeastern University). [Paper]
• Camera-related:
  • CTRL-C: "CTRL-C: Camera calibration TRansformer with Line-Classification", ICCV, 2021 (Kakao + Kookmin University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MS-Transformer: "Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Bar-Ilan University, Israel). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Character Recognition:
  • BTTR: "Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition with Bidirectionally Trained Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Peking). [Paper]
  • TrOCR: "TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Robustness Evaluation of Transformer-based Form Field Extractors via Form Attacks", arXiv, 2021 (Salesforce). [Paper]
  • T³: "TrueType Transformer: Character and Font Style Recognition in Outline Format", Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2022 (Kyushu University). [Paper]
  • ?: "Transformer-based HTR for Historical Documents", ComHum, 2022 (University of Zurich, Switzerland). [Paper]
• Continual Learning:
  • MEAT: "Meta-attention for ViT-backed Continual Learning", CVPR, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • DyTox: "DyTox: Transformers for Continual Learning with DYnamic TOken eXpansion", CVPR, 2022 (Sorbonne Universite, France). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • COLT: "Transformers Are Better Continual Learners", arXiv, 2022 (Hikvision). [Paper]
  • ?: "Towards Exemplar-Free Continual Learning in Vision Transformers: an Account of Attention, Functional and Weight Regularization", arXiv, 2022 (Ca' Foscari University, Italy). [Paper]
• Cross-View Geo-Localization:
  • MGTL: "Mutual Generative Transformer Learning for Cross-view Geo-localization", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• Crowd Counting:
  • CC-AV: "Audio-Visual Transformer Based Crowd Counting", ICCVW, 2021 (University of Kansas). [Paper]
  • TransCrowd: "TransCrowd: Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TAM-RTM: "Boosting Crowd Counting with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper]
  • CCTrans: "CCTrans: Simplifying and Improving Crowd Counting with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Meituan). [Paper]
  • SAANet: "Scene-Adaptive Attention Network for Crowd Counting", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong). [Paper]
  • JCTNet: "Joint CNN and Transformer Network via weakly supervised Learning for efficient crowd counting", arXiv, 2022 (Chongqing University). [Paper]
  • CrowdMLP: "CrowdMLP: Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting via Multi-Granularity MLP", arXiv, 2022 (University of Guelph, Canada). [Paper]
• Curriculum Learning:
  • SSTN: "Spatial Transformer Networks for Curriculum Learning", arXiv, 2021 (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany). [Paper]
• Digital Holography:
  • ?: "Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) vs Visual Transformer (ViT) for Digital Holography", ICCCR, 2022 (UBFC, France). [Paper]
• Event data:
  • EvT: "Event Transformer: A sparse-aware solution for efficient event data processing", arXiv, 2022 (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ETB: "Event Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
• Fashion:
  • Kaleido-BERT: "Kaleido-BERT: Vision-Language Pre-training on Fashion Domain", CVPR, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • CIT: "Cloth Interactive Transformer for Virtual Try-On", arXiv, 2021 (University of Trento). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • OutfitTransformer: "OutfitTransformer: Learning Outfit Representations for Fashion Recommendation", arXiv, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • Fashionformer: "Fashionformer: A simple, Effective and Unified Baseline for Human Fashion Segmentation and Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (* Pekin*). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Feature Matching:
  • LoFTR: "LoFTR: Detector-Free Local Feature Matching with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • COTR: "COTR: Correspondence Transformer for Matching Across Images", ICCV, 2021 (UBC). [Paper]
  • CATs: "CATs: Cost Aggregation Transformers for Visual Correspondence", NeurIPS, 2021 (Yonsei University + Korea University). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • TransforMatcher: "TransforMatcher: Match-to-Match Attention for Semantic Correspondence", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper]
  • CATs++: "CATs++: Boosting Cost Aggregation with Convolutions and Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Korea University). [Paper]
  • LoFTR-TensorRT: "Local Feature Matching with Transformers for low-end devices", arXiv, 2022 (?). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MatchFormer: "MatchFormer: Interleaving Attention in Transformers for Feature Matching", arXiv, 2022 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). [Paper]
• Fine-grained:
  • ViT-FGVC: "Exploring Vision Transformers for Fine-grained Classification", CVPRW, 2021 (Universidad de Valladolid). [Paper]
  • FFVT: "Feature Fusion Vision Transformer for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization", BMVC, 2021 (Griffith University, Australia). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TPSKG: "Transformer with Peak Suppression and Knowledge Guidance for Fine-grained Image Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper]
  • AFTrans: "A free lunch from ViT: Adaptive Attention Multi-scale Fusion Transformer for Fine-grained Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper]
  • TransFG: "TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grained Recognition", AAAI, 2022 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DynamicMLP: "Dynamic MLP for Fine-Grained Image Classification by Leveraging Geographical and Temporal Information", CVPR, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MetaFormer: "MetaFormer: A Unified Meta Framework for Fine-Grained Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ViT-FOD: "ViT-FOD: A Vision Transformer based Fine-grained Object Discriminator", arXiv, 2022 (Shandong University). [Paper]
• Gait:
  • Gait-TR: "Spatial Transformer Network on Skeleton-based Gait Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper]
• Gaze:
  • GazeTR: "Gaze Estimation using Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HGTTR: "End-to-End Human-Gaze-Target Detection with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong). [Paper]
• Geo-Localization:
  • EgoTR: "Cross-view Geo-localization with Evolving Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Shenzhen University). [Paper]
  • TransGeo: "TransGeo: Transformer Is All You Need for Cross-view Image Geo-localization", CVPR, 2022 (UCF). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Homography Estimation:
  • LocalTrans: "LocalTrans: A Multiscale Local Transformer Network for Cross-Resolution Homography Estimation", ICCV, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• Image Quality Assessment:
  • TRIQ: "Transformer for Image Quality Assessment", arXiv, 2020 (NORCE). [Paper][Tensorflow-Keras]
  • IQT: "Perceptual Image Quality Assessment with Transformers", CVPRW, 2021 (LG). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MUSIQ: "MUSIQ: Multi-scale Image Quality Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • TranSLA: "Saliency-Guided Transformer Network Combined With Local Embedding for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment", ICCVW, 2021 (Hikvision). [Paper]
  • TReS: "No-Reference Image Quality Assessment via Transformers, Relative Ranking, and Self-Consistency", WACV, 2022 (CMU). [Paper]
  • MCAS-IQA: "Visual Mechanisms Inspired Efficient Transformers for Image and Video Quality Assessment", arXiv, 2022 (Norwegian Research Centre, Norway). [Paper]
• Image Registration:
  • AiR: "Attention for Image Registration (AiR): an unsupervised Transformer approach", arXiv, 2021 (INRIA). [Paper]
• Image Retrieval:
  • RRT: "Instance-level Image Retrieval using Reranking Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (University of Virginia). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SwinFGHash: "SwinFGHash: Fine-grained Image Retrieval via Transformer-based Hashing Network", BMVC, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
  • ViT-Retrieval: "Investigating the Vision Transformer Model for Image Retrieval Tasks", arXiv, 2021 (Democritus University of Thrace). [Paper]
  • IRT: "Training Vision Transformers for Image Retrieval", arXiv, 2021 (Facebook + INRIA). [Paper]
  • TransHash: "TransHash: Transformer-based Hamming Hashing for Efficient Image Retrieval", arXiv, 2021 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). [Paper]
  • VTS: "Vision Transformer Hashing for Image Retrieval", arXiv, 2021 (IIIT-Allahabad). [Paper]
  • GTZSR: "Zero-Shot Sketch Based Image Retrieval using Graph Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (IIT Bombay). [Paper]
• Layout Generation:
  • VTN: "Variational Transformer Networks for Layout Generation", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
  • LayoutTransformer: "LayoutTransformer: Scene Layout Generation With Conceptual and Spatial Diversity", CVPR, 2021 (NTU). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • LayoutTransformer: "LayoutTransformer: Layout Generation and Completion with Self-attention", ICCV, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper][Website]
  • LGT-Net: "LGT-Net: Indoor Panoramic Room Layout Estimation with Geometry-Aware Transformer Network", CVPR, 2022 (East China Normal University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ATEK: "ATEK: Augmenting Transformers with Expert Knowledge for Indoor Layout Synthesis", arXiv, 2022 (New Jersey Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• Livestock Monitoring:
  • STARFormer: "Livestock Monitoring with Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (IIT Dhanbad). [Paper]
• Long-tail:
  • BatchFormer: "BatchFormer: Learning to Explore Sample Relationships for Robust Representation Learning", CVPR, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • BatchFormerV2: "BatchFormerV2: Exploring Sample Relationships for Dense Representation Learning", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper]
• Metric Learning:
  • Hyp-ViT: "Hyperbolic Vision Transformers: Combining Improvements in Metric Learning", CVPR, 2022 (University of Trento, Italy). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Multi-label:
  • C-Tran: "General Multi-label Image Classification with Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (University of Virginia). [Paper]
  • TDRG: "Transformer-Based Dual Relation Graph for Multi-Label Image Recognition", ICCV, 2021 (Tencent). [Paper]
  • MlTr: "MlTr: Multi-label Classification with Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (KuaiShou). [Paper]
  • GATN: "Graph Attention Transformer Network for Multi-Label Image Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Southeast University, China). [Paper]
• Open Set:
  • OSR-ViT: "Open Set Recognition using Vision Transformer with an Additional Detection Head", arXiv, 2022 (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee). [Paper]
• Out-Of-Distribution:
  • OODformer: "OODformer: Out-Of-Distribution Detection Transformer", BMVC, 2021 (LMU Munich). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Pedestrian Intention:
  • IntFormer: "IntFormer: Predicting pedestrian intention with the aid of the Transformer architecture", arXiv, 2021 (Universidad de Alcala). [Paper]
• Place Recognition:
  • SVT-Net: "SVT-Net: A Super Light-Weight Network for Large Scale Place Recognition using Sparse Voxel Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Renmin University of China). [Paper]
  • TransVPR: "TransVPR: Transformer-based place recognition with multi-level attention aggregation", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong). [Paper]
• Remote Sensing/Hyperspectral:
  • DCFAM: "Transformer Meets DCFAM: A Novel Semantic Segmentation Scheme for Fine-Resolution Remote Sensing Images", arXiv, 2021 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
  • WiCNet: "Looking Outside the Window: Wider-Context Transformer for the Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images", arXiv, 2021 (University of Trento). [Paper]
  • ?: "Vision Transformers For Weeds and Crops Classification Of High Resolution UAV Images", arXiv, 2021 (University of Orleans, France). [Paper]
  • ?: "Self-supervised Vision Transformers for Joint SAR-optical Representation Learning", IGARSS, 2022 (German Aerospace Center). [Paper]
  • RNGDet: "RNGDet: Road Network Graph Detection by Transformer in Aerial Images", arXiv, 2022 (HKUST). [Paper]
  • FSRA: "A Transformer-Based Feature Segmentation and Region Alignment Method For UAV-View Geo-Localization", arXiv, 2022 (China Jiliang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Multiscale Convolutional Transformer with Center Mask Pretraining for Hyperspectral Image Classificationtion", arXiv, 2022 (Shenzhen University). [Paper]
  • ?: "Deep Hyperspectral Unmixing using Transformer Network", arXiv, 2022 (Jalpaiguri Engineering College, India). [Paper]
• Robotics:
  • TF-Grasp: "When Transformer Meets Robotic Grasping: Exploits Context for Efficient Grasp Detection", arXiv, 2022 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Satellite:
  • Satellite-ViT: "Manipulation Detection in Satellite Images Using Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Purdue). [Paper]
• Scene Text Recognition:
  • ViTSTR: "Vision Transformer for Fast and Efficient Scene Text Recognition", ICDAR, 2021 (University of the Philippines). [Paper]
  • STKM: "Self-attention based Text Knowledge Mining for Text Detection", CVPR, 2021 (?). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • I2C2W: "I2C2W: Image-to-Character-to-Word Transformers for Accurate Scene Text Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (NTU Singapoer). [Paper]
• Stereo:
  • STTR: "Revisiting Stereo Depth Estimation From a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PS-Transformer: "PS-Transformer: Learning Sparse Photometric Stereo Network using Self-Attention Mechanism", BMVC, 2021 (National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN). [Paper]
  • ChiTransformer: "ChiTransformer: Towards Reliable Stereo from Cues", CVPR, 2022 (GSU). [Paper]
• Time Series:
  • MissFormer: "MissFormer: (In-)attention-based handling of missing observations for trajectory filtering and prediction", arXiv, 2021 (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany). [Paper]
• Traffic:
  • ViTAL: "Novelty Detection and Analysis of Traffic Scenario Infrastructures in the Latent Space of a Vision Transformer-Based Triplet Autoencoder", IV, 2021 (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt). [Paper]
  • ?: "Predicting Vehicles Trajectories in Urban Scenarios with Transformer Networks and Augmented Information", IVS, 2021 (Universidad de Alcala). [Paper]
  • BEVSegFormer: "BEVSegFormer: Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation From Arbitrary Camera Rigs", arXiv, 2022 (Nullmax, China). [Paper]
  • V2X-ViT: "V2X-ViT: Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception with Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (UCLA). [Paper]
  • BEVFormer: "BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Lab). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Trajectory Prediction:
  • mmTransformer: "Multimodal Motion Prediction with Stacked Transformers", CVPR, 2021 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
  • AgentFormer: "AgentFormer: Agent-Aware Transformers for Socio-Temporal Multi-Agent Forecasting", ICCV, 2021 (CMU). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
  • MRT: "Multi-Person 3D Motion Prediction with Multi-Range Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (UCSD + Berkeley). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • ?: "Latent Variable Sequential Set Transformers for Joint Multi-Agent Motion Prediction", ICLR, 2022 (MILA). [Paper]
  • Scene-Transformer: "Scene Transformer: A unified architecture for predicting multiple agent trajectories", ICLR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • LatentFormer: "LatentFormer: Multi-Agent Transformer-Based Interaction Modeling and Trajectory Prediction", arXiv, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
  • PreTR: "PreTR: Spatio-Temporal Non-Autoregressive Trajectory Prediction Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Stellantis, France). [Paper]
• 3D Human Texture Estimation:
  • Texformer: "3D Human Texture Estimation from a Single Image with Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• 3D Motion Synthesis:
  • ACTOR: "Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE", ICCV, 2021 (Univ Gustave Eiffel). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • ActFormer: "ActFormer: A GAN Transformer Framework towards General Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Generation", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper]
• 3D Object Recognition:
  • MVT: "MVT: Multi-view Vision Transformer for 3D Object Recognition", BMVC, 2021 (Baidu). [Paper]
• 3D Reconstruction:
  • PlaneTR: "PlaneTR: Structure-Guided Transformers for 3D Plane Recovery", ICCV, 2021 (Wuhan University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • CO3D: "CommonObjects in 3D: Large-Scale Learning and Evaluation of Real-life 3D Category Reconstruction", ICCV, 2021 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • VolT: "Multi-view 3D Reconstruction with Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (University of British Columbia). [Paper]
  • 3D-RETR: "3D-RETR: End-to-End Single and Multi-View 3D Reconstruction with Transformers", BMVC, 2021 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • TransformerFusion: "TransformerFusion: Monocular RGB Scene Reconstruction using Transformers", NeurIPS, 2021 (TUM). [Paper][Website]
  • LegoFormer: "LegoFormer: Transformers for Block-by-Block Multi-view 3D Reconstruction", arXiv, 2021 (TUM + Google). [Paper]
• 360 Scene:
  • ?: "Improving 360 Monocular Depth Estimation via Non-local Dense Prediction Transformer and Joint Supervised and Self-supervised Learning", AAAI, 2022 (Seoul National University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SPH: "Spherical Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Chung-Ang University, Korea). [Paper]
  • PanoFormer: "PanoFormer: Panorama Transformer for Indoor 360° Depth Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [Paper]

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Attention Mechanisms in Vision/NLP

Attention for Vision

• AA: "Attention Augmented Convolutional Networks", ICCV, 2019 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)][Tensorflow (Unofficial)]
• LR-Net: "Local Relation Networks for Image Recognition", ICCV, 2019 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• CCNet: "CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation", ICCV, 2019 (& TPAMI 2020) (Horizon). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GCNet: "Global Context Networks", ICCVW, 2019 (& TPAMI 2020) (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SASA: "Stand-Alone Self-Attention in Vision Models", NeurIPS, 2019 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch-1 (Unofficial)][PyTorch-2 (Unofficial)]
  • key message: attention module is more efficient than conv & provide comparable accuracy
• Axial-Transformer: "Axial Attention in Multidimensional Transformers", arXiv, 2019 (rejected by ICLR 2020) (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• Attention-CNN: "On the Relationship between Self-Attention and Convolutional Layers", ICLR, 2020 (EPFL). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• SAN: "Exploring Self-attention for Image Recognition", CVPR, 2020 (CUHK + Intel). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BA-Transform: "Non-Local Neural Networks With Grouped Bilinear Attentional Transforms", CVPR, 2020 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• Axial-DeepLab: "Axial-DeepLab: Stand-Alone Axial-Attention for Panoptic Segmentation", ECCV, 2020 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GSA: "Global Self-Attention Networks for Image Recognition", arXiv, 2020 (rejected by ICLR 2021) (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• EA: "Efficient Attention: Attention with Linear Complexities", WACV, 2021 (SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LambdaNetworks: "LambdaNetworks: Modeling long-range Interactions without Attention", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch-1 (Unofficial)][PyTorch-2 (Unofficial)]
• GSA-Nets: "Group Equivariant Stand-Alone Self-Attention For Vision", ICLR, 2021 (EPFL). [Paper]
• Hamburger: "Is Attention Better Than Matrix Decomposition?", ICLR, 2021 (Peking). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• HaloNet: "Scaling Local Self-Attention For Parameter Efficient Visual Backbones", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• BoTNet: "Bottleneck Transformers for Visual Recognition", CVPR, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• SSAN: "SSAN: Separable Self-Attention Network for Video Representation Learning", CVPR, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• CoTNet: "Contextual Transformer Networks for Visual Recognition", CVPRW, 2021 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Involution: "Involution: Inverting the Inherence of Convolution for Visual Recognition", CVPR, 2021 (HKUST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Perceiver: "Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention", ICML, 2021 (DeepMind). [Paper][PyTorch (lucidrains)]
• SNL: "Unifying Nonlocal Blocks for Neural Networks", ICCV, 2021 (Peking + Bytedance). [Paper]
• External-Attention: "Beyond Self-attention: External Attention using Two Linear Layers for Visual Tasks", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• KVT: "KVT: k-NN Attention for Boosting Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• Container: "Container: Context Aggregation Network", arXiv, 2021 (AI2). [Paper]
• X-volution: "X-volution: On the unification of convolution and self-attention", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei Hisilicon). [Paper]
• Invertible-Attention: "Invertible Attention", arXiv, 2021 (ANU). [Paper]
• VOLO: "VOLO: Vision Outlooker for Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2021 (Sea AI Lab + NUS, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LESA: "Locally Enhanced Self-Attention: Rethinking Self-Attention as Local and Context Terms", arXiv, 2021 (Johns Hopkins). [Paper]
• PS-Attention: "Pale Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Pale-Shaped Attention", AAAI, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper][Paddle]
• QuadTree: "QuadTree Attention for Vision Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (Simon Fraser + Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HiP: "Hierarchical Perceiver", arXiv, 2022 (DeepMind). [Paper]

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Attention for NLP

• T-DMCA: "Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences", ICLR, 2018 (Google). [Paper]
• LSRA: "Lite Transformer with Long-Short Range Attention", ICLR, 2020 (MIT). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ETC: "ETC: Encoding Long and Structured Inputs in Transformers", EMNLP, 2020 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• BlockBERT: "Blockwise Self-Attention for Long Document Understanding", EMNLP Findings, 2020 (Facebook). [Paper][GitHub]
• Clustered-Attention: "Fast Transformers with Clustered Attention", NeurIPS, 2020 (Idiap). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• BigBird: "Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences", NeurIPS, 2020 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• Longformer: "Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer", arXiv, 2020 (AI2). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Linformer: "Linformer: Self-Attention with Linear Complexity", arXiv, 2020 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• Nystromformer: "Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention", AAAI, 2021 (UW-Madison). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RFA: "Random Feature Attention", ICLR, 2021 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• Performer: "Rethinking Attention with Performers", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Code][Blog]
• DeLight: "DeLighT: Deep and Light-weight Transformer", ICLR, 2021 (UW). [Paper]
• Synthesizer: "Synthesizer: Rethinking Self-Attention for Transformer Models", ICML, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][Pytorch (leaderj1001)]
• Poolingformer: "Poolingformer: Long Document Modeling with Pooling Attention", ICML, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• Hi-Transformer: "Hi-Transformer: Hierarchical Interactive Transformer for Efficient and Effective Long Document Modeling", ACL, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• Smart-Bird: "Smart Bird: Learnable Sparse Attention for Efficient and Effective Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• Fastformer: "Fastformer: Additive Attention is All You Need", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• ∞-former: "∞-former: Infinite Memory Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal). [Paper]
• cosFormer: "cosFormer: Rethinking Softmax In Attention", ICLR, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper][PyTorch (davidsvy)]

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Attention for Both

• Sparse-Transformer: "Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers", arXiv, 2019 (rejected by ICLR 2020) (OpenAI). [Paper][Tensorflow][Blog]
• Reformer: "Reformer: The Efficient Transformer", ICLR, 2020 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][Blog]
• Sinkhorn-Transformer: "Sparse Sinkhorn Attention", ICML, 2020 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (Unofficial)]
• Linear-Transformer: "Transformers are rnns: Fast autoregressive transformers with linear attention", ICML, 2020 (Idiap). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• SMYRF: "SMYRF: Efficient Attention using Asymmetric Clustering", NeurIPS, 2020 (UT Austin + Google). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Routing-Transformer: "Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers", TACL, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][PyTorch (Unofficial)][Slides]
• LRA: "Long Range Arena: A Benchmark for Efficient Transformers", ICLR, 2021 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• OmniNet: "OmniNet: Omnidirectional Representations from Transformers", ICML, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• Evolving-Attention: "Evolving Attention with Residual Convolutions", ICML, 2021 (Peking + Microsoft). [Paper]
• H-Transformer-1D: "H-Transformer-1D: Fast One-Dimensional Hierarchical Attention for Sequences", ACL, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• Combiner: "Combiner: Full Attention Transformer with Sparse Computation Cost", NeurIPS, 2021 (Google). [Paper]
• Centroid-Transformer: "Centroid Transformers: Learning to Abstract with Attention", arXiv, 2021 (UT Austin). [Paper]
• AFT: "An Attention Free Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Apple). [Paper]
• Luna: "Luna: Linear Unified Nested Attention", arXiv, 2021 (USC + CMU + Facebook). [Paper]
• Transformer-LS: "Long-Short Transformer: Efficient Transformers for Language and Vision", arXiv, 2021 (NVIDIA). [Paper]
• PoNet: "PoNet: Pooling Network for Efficient Token Mixing in Long Sequences", ICLR, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]

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Attention for Others

• Informer: "Informer: Beyond Efficient Transformer for Long Sequence Time-Series Forecasting", AAAI, 2021 (Beihang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Attention-Rank-Collapse: "Attention is Not All You Need: Pure Attention Loses Rank Doubly Exponentially with Depth", ICML, 2021 (Google + EPFL). [Paper][PyTorch]
• NPT: "Self-Attention Between Datapoints: Going Beyond Individual Input-Output Pairs in Deep Learning", arXiv, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper]

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Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider citing this list:

@misc{chen2022transformerpaperlist,
    title = {Ultimate awesome paper list: transformer and attention},
    author = {Chen, Min-Hung},
    journal = {GitHub repository},
    url = {https://github.com/cmhungsteve/Awesome-Transformer-Attention},
    year = {2022},
}

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References

• Survey:
  • "A Comprehensive Study of Vision Transformers on Dense Prediction Tasks", VISAP, 2022 (NavInfo Europe, Netherlands). [Paper]
  • "Vision Transformers in Medical Computer Vision - A Contemplative Retrospection", arXiv, 2022 (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan). [Paper]
  • "Video Transformers: A Survey", arXiv, 2022 (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain). [Paper]
  • "Transformers in Medical Image Analysis: A Review", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper]
  • "Recent Advances in Vision Transformer: A Survey and Outlook of Recent Work", arXiv, 2022 (?). [Paper]
  • "Transformers Meet Visual Learning Understanding: A Comprehensive Review", arXiv, 2022 (Xidian University). [Paper]
  • "Transformers in Vision: A Survey", ACM Computing Surveys, 2021 (MBZUAI). [Paper]
  • "Survey: Transformer based Video-Language Pre-training", arXiv, 2021 (Renmin University of China). [Paper]
  • "A Survey of Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Fudan). [Paper]
  • "A Survey on Visual Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Huawei). [Paper]
  • "A Survey of Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
  • "Are we ready for a new paradigm shift? A Survey on Visual Deep MLP", arXiv, 2021 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
  • "Efficient Transformers: A Survey", arXiv, 2020 (Google). [Paper]
  • "Attention mechanisms and deep learning for machine vision: A survey of the state of the art", arXiv, 2021 (University of Kashmir). [Paper]
• Online Resources:
  • Transformer-in-Vision (GitHub)
  • Awesome Visual-Transformer (GitHub)
  • Awesome Transformer for Vision Resources List (GitHub)
  • Transformer-in-Computer-Vision (GitHub)