thewillhuang / 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)

If you find some ignored papers, feel free to create pull requests, open issues, or email me.
Contributions in any form to make this list more comprehensive are welcome.

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[Update: July, 2022] Added all the related papers from ICML 2022!
[Update: June, 2022] Added all the related papers from CVPR 2022!

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Overview

• Survey
• 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
  • HOI Detection
  • Salient Object Detection
  • Other Detection Tasks
• Segmentation
  • Semantic Segmentation
  • Depth Estimation
  • Object Segmentation
  • Other Segmentation Tasks
• Video (High-level)
  • Action Recognition
  • Action Detection/Localization
  • Action Prediction/Anticipation
  • Video Object Segmentation
  • Video Instance Segmentation
  • Other Video Tasks
• Multi-Modality
  • VQA / Captioning
  • Visual Grounding
  • Multi-Modal Representation Learning
  • Multi-Modal Retrieval
  • Multi-Modal Generation
  • 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 / Continual 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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Survey

• "A Survey on Visual Transformer", TPAMI, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
• "A Comprehensive Study of Vision Transformers on Dense Prediction Tasks", VISAP, 2022 (NavInfo Europe, Netherlands). [Paper]
• "Vision-and-Language Pretrained Models: A Survey", IJCAI, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper]
• "Vision Transformers: State of the Art and Research Challenges", arXiv, 2022 (NYCU). [Paper]
• "Transformers in Medical Imaging: A Survey", arXiv, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][GitHub]
• "Multimodal Learning with Transformers: A Survey", arXiv, 2022 (Oxford). [Paper]
• "Transforming medical imaging with Transformers? A comparative review of key properties, current progresses, and future perspectives", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• "Transformers in 3D Point Clouds: A Survey", arXiv, 2022 (University of Waterloo). [Paper]
• "A survey on attention mechanisms for medical applications: are we moving towards better algorithms?", arXiv, 2022 (INESC TEC and University of Porto, Portugal). [Paper]
• "Efficient Transformers: A Survey", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• "Are we ready for a new paradigm shift? A Survey on Visual Deep MLP", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [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]
• "Image Captioning In the Transformer Age", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][GitHub]
• "Visual Attention Methods in Deep Learning: An In-Depth Survey", arXiv, 2022 (Fayoum University, Egypt). [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 of Visual Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (CAS). [Paper]
• "Attention mechanisms and deep learning for machine vision: A survey of the state of the art", arXiv, 2021 (University of Kashmir, India). [Paper]

[Back to Overview]

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 (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 (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]
• ACmix: "On the Integration of Self-Attention and Convolution", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]

[Back to Overview]

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][PyTorch (berniwal)]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• LIT: "Less is More: Pay Less Attention in Vision Transformers", AAAI, 2022 (Monash University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• ViT-G: "Scaling Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• CSWin: "CSWin Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone with Cross-Shaped Windows", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• DAT: "Vision Transformer with Deformable Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Swin-Transformer-V2: "Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MSG-Transformer: "MSG-Transformer: Exchanging Local Spatial Information by Manipulating Messenger Tokens", CVPR, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science & Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• NomMer: "NomMer: Nominate Synergistic Context in Vision Transformer for Visual Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Shunted: "Shunted Self-Attention via Multi-Scale Token Aggregation", CVPR, 2022 (NUS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PyramidTNT: "PyramidTNT: Improved Transformer-in-Transformer Baselines with Pyramid Architecture", CVPRW, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper][PyTorch]
• X-ViT: "X-ViT: High Performance Linear Vision Transformer without Softmax", CVPRW, 2022 (Kakao). [Paper]
• ReMixer: "ReMixer: Object-aware Mixing Layer for Vision Transformers", CVPRW, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Wave-ViT: "Wave-ViT: Unifying Wavelet and Transformers for Visual Representation Learning", ECCV, 2022 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BViT: "BViT: Broad Attention based Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• 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]
• NAT: "Neighborhood Attention Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Oregon). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• VSA: "VSA: Learning Varied-Size Window Attention in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• ASF-former: "Adaptive Split-Fusion Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• LITv2: "Fast Vision Transformers with HiLo Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Monash University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• PerViT: "Peripheral Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper]
• SP-ViT: "SP-ViT: Learning 2D Spatial Priors for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• EATFormer: "EATFormer: Improving Vision Transformer Inspired by Evolutionary Algorithm", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
• GC-ViT: "Global Context Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LinGlo: "Rethinking Query-Key Pairwise Interactions in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (TCL Research Wuhan). [Paper]
• Dual-ViT: "Dual Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (JD). [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]
• ?: "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]
• 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]
• Mobile-Former: "Mobile-Former: Bridging MobileNet and Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• QnA: "Learned Queries for Efficient Local Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Tel-Aviv). [Paper][Jax]
• LVT: "Lite Vision Transformer with Enhanced Self-Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper][PyTorch]
• A-ViT: "A-ViT: Adaptive Tokens for Efficient Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][Website]
• PS-ViT: "Patch Slimming for Efficient Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
• Rev-MViT: "Reversible Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AdaViT: "AdaViT: Adaptive Vision Transformers for Efficient Image Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper]
• DQS: "Dynamic Query Selection for Fast Visual Perceiver", CVPRW, 2022 (Sorbonne Universite', France). [Paper]
• SPViT: "SPViT: Enabling Faster Vision Transformers via Soft Token Pruning", CVPRW, 2022 (Northeastern University). [Paper]
• 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]
• ResT-V2: "ResT V2: Simpler, Faster and Stronger", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EdgeViT: "EdgeViTs: Competing Light-weight CNNs on Mobile Devices with Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Samsung). [Paper]
• TRT-ViT: "TRT-ViT: TensorRT-oriented Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• SuperViT: "Super Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EfficientViT: "EfficientViT: Enhanced Linear Attention for High-Resolution Low-Computation Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (MIT). [Paper]
• EfficientFormer: "EfficientFormer: Vision Transformers at MobileNet Speed", arXiv, 2022 (Snap). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• MobileViTv2: "Separable Self-attention for Mobile Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Apple). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Tutel: "Tutel: Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts at Scale", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SimA: "SimA: Simple Softmax-free Attention for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Maryland + UC Davis). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EdgeNeXt: "EdgeNeXt: Efficiently Amalgamated CNN-Transformer Architecture for Mobile Vision Applications", arXiv, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VVT: "Vicinity Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Australian National University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• SOFT: "Softmax-free Linear Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MaiT: "MaiT: Leverage Attention Masks for More Efficient Image Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Samsung). [Paper]
• LightViT: "LightViT: Towards Light-Weight Convolution-Free Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Next-ViT: "Next-ViT: Next Generation Vision Transformer for Efficient Deployment in Realistic Industrial Scenarios", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [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]
• 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][PyTorch]
• CMT: "CMT: Convolutional Neural Networks Meet Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Huawei). [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]
• iFormer: "Inception Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Sea AI Lab). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MoCoViT: "MoCoViT: Mobile Convolutional Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• DynamicViT: "Dynamic Spatial Sparsification for Efficient Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua University). [Paper][PyTorch]

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]
• 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]
• MaskFeat: "Masked Feature Prediction for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training", CVPR, 2022 (Facebook). [Paper]
• 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)]
• SimMIM: "SimMIM: A Simple Framework for Masked Image Modeling", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SelfPatch: "Patch-Level Representation Learning for Self-Supervised Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Bootstrapping-ViTs: "Bootstrapping ViTs: Towards Liberating Vision Transformers from Pre-training", CVPR, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransMix: "TransMix: Attend to Mix for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PatchRot: "PatchRot: A Self-Supervised Technique for Training Vision Transformers", CVPRW, 2022 (Arizona State). [Paper]
• SplitMask: "Are Large-scale Datasets Necessary for Self-Supervised Pre-training?", CVPRW, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
• MC-SSL: "MC-SSL: Towards Multi-Concept Self-Supervised Learning", CVPRW, 2022 (University of Surrey, UK). [Paper]
• RelViT: "Where are my Neighbors? Exploiting Patches Relations in Self-Supervised Vision Transformer", CVPRW, 2022 (University of Padova, Italy). [Paper]
• data2vec: "data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language", ICML, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SSTA: "Self-supervised Models are Good Teaching Assistants for Vision Transformers", ICML, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• CutMixSL: "Visual Transformer Meets CutMix for Improved Accuracy, Communication Efficiency, and Data Privacy in Split Learning", IJCAI, 2022 (Yonsei University, Korea). [Paper]
• ?: "How to train your ViT? Data, Augmentation, and Regularization in Vision Transformers", Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow][PyTorch (rwightman)]
• 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]
• DeiT-III: "DeiT III: Revenge of the ViT", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
• ?: "Better plain ViT baselines for ImageNet-1k", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
• ConvMAE: "ConvMAE: Masked Convolution Meets Masked Autoencoders", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Laboratory). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• ViT-Adapter: "Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai AI Lab). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• UM-MAE: "Uniform Masking: Enabling MAE Pre-training for Pyramid-based Vision Transformers with Locality", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MixMIM: "MixMIM: Mixed and Masked Image Modeling for Efficient Visual Representation Learning", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• A²MIM: "Architecture-Agnostic Masked Image Modeling - From ViT back to CNN", arXiv, 2022 (Westlake University, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GMML: "GMML is All you Need", arXiv, 2022 (University of Surrey, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HiViT: "HiViT: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Meets Masked Image Modeling", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• ?: "A Closer Look at Self-supervised Lightweight Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper]
• SIM: "Siamese Image Modeling for Self-Supervised Vision Representation Learning", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper]
• SupMAE: "SupMAE: Supervised Masked Autoencoders Are Efficient Vision Learners", arXiv, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LoMaR: "Efficient Self-supervised Vision Pretraining with Local Masked Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022 (KAUST). [Paper]
• SAR: "Spatial Entropy Regularization for Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Trento, Italy). [Paper]
• ExtreMA: "Extreme Masking for Learning Instance and Distributed Visual Representations", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• ?: "Exploring Feature Self-relation for Self-supervised Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Nankai University). [Paper]
• ?: "Position Labels for Self-Supervised Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Southwest Jiaotong University). [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 + UC Santa Cruz). [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]
• ?: "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]
• APRIL: "APRIL: Finding the Achilles' Heel on Privacy for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• Smooth-ViT: "Certified Patch Robustness via Smoothed Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (MIT). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RVT: "Towards Robust Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Pyramid: "Pyramid Adversarial Training Improves ViT Performance", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• VARS: "Visual Attention Emerges from Recurrent Sparse Reconstruction", ICML, 2022 (Berkeley + Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FAN: "Understanding The Robustness in Vision Transformers", ICML, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CFA: "Robustifying Vision Transformer without Retraining from Scratch by Test-Time Class-Conditional Feature Alignment", IJCAI, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Are Vision Transformers Robust to Spurious Correlations?", arXiv, 2022 (UW-Madison). [Paper]
• MA: "Boosting Adversarial Transferability of MLP-Mixer", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• ?: "Deeper Insights into ViTs Robustness towards Common Corruptions", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan + Microsoft). [Paper]
• ?: "Privacy-Preserving Image Classification Using Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Tokyo Metropolitan University). [Paper]
• RobustViT: "Optimizing Relevance Maps of Vision Transformers Improves Robustness", arXiv, 2022 (Tel-Aviv). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FedWAvg: "Federated Adversarial Training with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Institute of Electronics and Digital Technologies (IETR), France). [Paper]
• RobustCNN: "Can CNNs Be More Robust Than Transformers?", arXiv, 2022 (UC Santa Cruz + JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Backdoor-Transformer: "Backdoor Attacks on Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Maryland + UC Davis). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• ?: "Defending Backdoor Attacks on Vision Transformer via Patch Processing", arXiv, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• ?: "Image and Model Transformation with Secret Key for Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Tokyo Metropolitan University). [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]
• MiniViT: "MiniViT: Compressing Vision Transformers with Weight Multiplexing", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [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]
• SiDT: "Searching Intrinsic Dimensions of Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (UC Irvine). [Paper]
• I-ViT: "I-ViT: Integer-only Quantization for Efficient Vision Transformer Inference", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [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]
• DynaMixer: "DynaMixer: A Vision MLP Architecture with Dynamic Mixing", ICML, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STD: "Spatial-Channel Token Distillation for Vision MLPs", ICML, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
• 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]
• MDMLP: "MDMLP: Image Classification from Scratch on Small Datasets with MLP", arXiv, 2022 (Jiangsu University). [Paper][PyTorch]

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]
• Sequencer: "Sequencer: Deep LSTM for Image Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Rikkyo University, Japan). [Paper]

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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]
• ?: "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]
• ?: "Unraveling Attention via Convex Duality: Analysis and Interpretations of Vision Transformers", ICML, 2022 (Stanford). [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]
• MJP: "Breaking the Chain of Gradient Leakage in Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• ViT-Shapley: "Learning to Estimate Shapley Values with Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (UW). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "A Unified and Biologically-Plausible Relational Graph Representation of Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]

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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][PyTorch]
  • DN-DETR: "DN-DETR: Accelerate DETR Training by Introducing Query DeNoising", CVPR, 2022 (International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), China). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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)]
  • DESTR: "DESTR: Object Detection With Split Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Oregon State). [Paper]
  • OW-DETR: "OW-DETR: Open-world Detection Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (IIAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • REGO: "Recurrent Glimpse-based Decoder for Detection with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Training Object Detectors From Scratch: An Empirical Study in the Era of Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Ant Group). [Paper]
  • 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]
  • imTED: "Integral Migrating Pre-trained Transformer Encoder-decoders for Visual Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
  • AO2-DETR: "AO2-DETR: Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Peking University). [Paper]
  • MaskDINO: "Mask DINO: Towards A Unified Transformer-based Framework for Object Detection and Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (IDEA, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • DFFT: "Efficient Decoder-free Object Detection with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• 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]
  • DETR++: "DETR++: Taming Your Multi-Scale Detection Transformer", CVPRW, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • D²ETR: "D²ETR: Decoder-Only DETR with Computationally Efficient Cross-Scale Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
• TokenFusion: "Multimodal Token Fusion for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• SST: "Embracing Single Stride 3D Object Detector with Sparse Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LIFT: "LIFT: Learning 4D LiDAR Image Fusion Transformer for 3D Object Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). [Paper]
• BoxeR: "BoxeR: Box-Attention for 2D and 3D Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (University of Amsterdam). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BrT: "Bridged Transformer for Vision and Point Cloud 3D Object Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• VISTA: "VISTA: Boosting 3D Object Detection via Dual Cross-VIew SpaTial Attention", CVPR, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STRL: "Towards Self-Supervised Pre-Training of 3DETR for Label-Efficient 3D Object Detection", CVPRW, 2022 (Bosch). [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)]
• Graph-DETR3D: "Graph-DETR3D: Rethinking Overlapping Regions for Multi-View 3D Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• UVTR: "Unifying Voxel-based Representation with Transformer for 3D Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PETRv2: "PETRv2: A Unified Framework for 3D Perception from Multi-Camera Images", arXiv, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper] PolarFormer: "PolarFormer: Multi-camera 3D Object Detection with Polar Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan University). [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]
• OWL-ViT: "Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "DALL-E for Detection: Language-driven Context Image Synthesis for Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (USC). [Paper]
• YONOD: "You Only Need One Detector: Unified Object Detector for Different Modalities based on Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (CUNY). [Paper][PyTorch]

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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][PyTorch (in construction)]
• DisTR: "Human-Object Interaction Detection via Disentangled Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• STIP: "Exploring Structure-Aware Transformer Over Interaction Proposals for Human-Object Interaction Detection", CVPR, 2022 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DOQ: "Distillation Using Oracle Queries for Transformer-Based Human-Object Interaction Detection", CVPR, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper]
• UPT: "Efficient Two-Stage Detection of Human-Object Interactions with a Novel Unary-Pairwise Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Australian Centre for Robotic Vision). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• CATN: "Category-Aware Transformer Network for Better Human-Object Interaction Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• HQM: "Towards Hard-Positive Query Mining for DETR-based Human-Object Interaction Detection", ECCV, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• Iwin: "Iwin: Human-Object Interaction Detection via Transformer with Irregular Windows", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong). [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]
• SelfReformer: "SelfReformer: Self-Refined Network with Transformer for Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper]
• DTMINet: "Dual Swin-Transformer based Mutual Interactive Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
• MCNet: "Mirror Complementary Transformer Network for RGB-thermal Salient Object Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SiaTrans: "SiaTrans: Siamese Transformer Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection with Depth Image Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Shandong University of Science and Technology). [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][PyTorch]
  • TokenCut: "Self-Supervised Transformers for Unsupervised Object Discovery using Normalized Cut", CVPR, 2022 (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France). [Paper][Website]
  • WS-DETR: "Scaling Novel Object Detection with Weakly Supervised Detection Transformers", CVPRW, 2022 (Microsoft). [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", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
  • Incremental-DETR: "Incremental-DETR: Incremental Few-Shot Object Detection via Self-Supervised Learning", arXiv, 2022 (NUS). [Paper]
• 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]
  • TLC: "Transformer Based Line Segment Classifier With Image Context for Real-Time Vanishing Point Detection in Manhattan World", CVPR, 2022 (Peking University). [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]
  • ViTOL: "ViTOL: Vision Transformer for Weakly Supervised Object Localization", CVPRW, 2022 (Mercedes-Benz). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • RelTransformer: "RelTransformer: A Transformer-Based Long-Tail Visual Relationship Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (KAUST). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • VReBERT: "VReBERT: A Simple and Flexible Transformer for Visual Relationship Detection", ICPR, 2022 (ANU). [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]
  • ?: "Multi-Contextual Predictions with Vision Transformer for Video Anomaly Detection", arXiv, 2022 (Korea University). [Paper]
• Cross-Domain:
  • 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]
  • OAA-OTA: "Improving Transferability for Domain Adaptive Detection Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper]
  • MTKT: "Cross-Domain Object Detection with Mean-Teacher Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper]
  • SSTA: "Cross-domain Detection Transformer based on Spatial-aware and Semantic-aware Token Alignment", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [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", CVPR, 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]
  • ?: "Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Boundary Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (University of Science and Technology Beijing). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • DPText-DETR: "DPText-DETR: Towards Better Scene Text Detection with Dynamic Points in Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (JD). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• 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)]
  • HEAT: "HEAT: Holistic Edge Attention Transformer for Structured Reconstruction", CVPR, 2022 (Simon Fraser). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• 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", CVPR, 2022 (Fudan University). [Paper]
• Grounded Situation Recognition:
  • CoFormer: "Collaborative Transformers for Grounded Situation Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Multi-Modal:
  • Detection-Hub: "Detection Hub: Unifying Object Detection Datasets via Query Adaptation on Language Embedding", arXiv, 2022 (Fudan + Microsoft). [Paper]

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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][PyTorch]
• GroupViT: "GroupViT: Semantic Segmentation Emerges from Text Supervision", CVPR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][Website][PyTorch]
• HRViT: "Multi-Scale High-Resolution Vision Transformer for Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][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]
• TSG: "Transformer Scale Gate for Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Monash University, Australia). [Paper]
• HILA: "Improving Semantic Segmentation in Transformers using Hierarchical Inter-Level Attention", arXiv, 2022 (University of Toronto). [Paper][Website][PyTorch]

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Depth Estimation

• DPT: "Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction", ICCV, 2021 (Intel). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• DepthFormer: "Multi-Frame Self-Supervised Depth with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Toyota). [Paper]
• GuideFormer: "GuideFormer: Transformers for Image Guided Depth Completion", CVPR, 2022 (Agency for Defense Development, Korea). [Paper]
• SparseFormer: "SparseFormer: Attention-based Depth Completion Network", CVPRW, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
• DEST: "Depth Estimation with Simplified Transformer", CVPRW, 2022 (NVIDIA). [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]
• SideRT: "SideRT: A Real-time Pure Transformer Architecture for Single Image Depth Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Meituan). [Paper]
• MonoFormer: "MonoFormer: Towards Generalization of self-supervised monocular depth estimation with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (DGIST, Korea). [Paper]
• Depthformer: "Depthformer : Multiscale Vision Transformer For Monocular Depth Estimation With Local Global Information Fusion", arXiv, 2022 (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi). [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][PyTorch]

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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)]
  • 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]
  • CMT-DeepLab: "CMT-DeepLab: Clustering Mask Transformers for Panoptic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • Panoptic-SegFormer: "Panoptic SegFormer", CVPR, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Mask2Former: "Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • kMaX-DeepLab: "k-means Mask Transformer", ECCV, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • Panoptic-PartFormer: "Panoptic-PartFormer: Learning a Unified Model for Panoptic Part Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Peking). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Instance Segmentation:
  • ISTR: "ISTR: End-to-End Instance Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Mask-Transfiner: "Mask Transfiner for High-Quality Instance Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • BoundaryFormer: "Instance Segmentation With Mask-Supervised Polygonal Boundary Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (UCSD). [Paper]
  • PPT: "Parallel Pre-trained Transformers (PPT) for Synthetic Data-based Instance Segmentation", CVPRW, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
  • OSFormer: "OSFormer: One-Stage Camouflaged Instance Segmentation with Transformers", ECCV, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Optical Flow:
  • CRAFT: "CRAFT: Cross-Attentional Flow Transformer for Robust Optical Flow", CVPR, 2022 (A*STAR, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • KPA-Flow: "Learning Optical Flow With Kernel Patch Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
  • GMFlowNet: "Global Matching with Overlapping Attention for Optical Flow Estimation", CVPR, 2022 (Rutgers). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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][PyTorch]
• X-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]
  • ZegFormer: "Decoupling Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Wuhan University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • CATrans: "CATrans: Context and Affinity Transformer for Few-Shot Segmentation", IJCAI, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
  • TAFT: "Task-Adaptive Feature Transformer with Semantic Enrichment for Few-Shot Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
  • MSANet: "MSANet: Multi-Similarity and Attention Guidance for Boosting Few-Shot Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (AiV Research Group, Korea). [Paper][PyTorch]
• X-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]
  • HSG: "Unsupervised Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation with Multiview Cosegmentation and Clustering Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Berkeley). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "Self-Supervised Pre-training of Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction Tasks", CVPRW, 2022 (Université Paris-Saclay, France). [Paper]
  • SegSwap: "Learning Co-segmentation by Segment Swapping for Retrieval and Discovery", CVPRW, 2022 (École des Ponts ParisTech). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • 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]
  • MaskDistill: "Discovering Object Masks with Transformers for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (KU Leuven). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • eX-ViT: "eX-ViT: A Novel eXplainable Vision Transformer for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (La Trobe University, Australia). [Paper]
• Cross-Domain:
  • DAFormer: "DAFormer: Improving Network Architectures and Training Strategies for Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
  • COD: "Boosting Camouflaged Object Detection with Dual-Task Interactive Transformer", ICPR, 2022 (Anhui University, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• 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:
  • BANet: "Transformer Meets Convolution: A Bilateral Awareness Net-work for Semantic Segmentation of Very Fine Resolution Urban Scene Images", arXiv, 2021 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
  • Cerberus-Transformer: "Cerberus Transformer: Joint Semantic, Affordance and Attribute Parsing", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • IRISformer: "IRISformer: Dense Vision Transformers for Single-Image Inverse Rendering in Indoor Scenes", CVPR, 2022 (UCSD). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • InvPT: "Inverted Pyramid Multi-task Transformer for Dense Scene Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (HKUST). [Paper]
• 3D 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", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
  • M2F3D: "M2F3D: Mask2Former for 3D Instance Segmentation", CVPRW, 2022 (RWTH Aachen University, Germany). [Paper][Website]
• Multi-Task:
  • MQTransformer: "Multi-Task Learning with Multi-query Transformer for Dense Prediction", arXiv, 2022 (Wuhan University). [Paper]
• Forcasting:
  • DiffAttn: "Joint Forecasting of Panoptic Segmentations with Difference Attention", CVPR, 2022 (UIUC). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• LiDAR:
  • HelixNet: "Online Segmentation of LiDAR Sequences: Dataset and Algorithm", CVPRW, 2022 (CNRS, France). [Paper][Website][PyTorch]
• Co-Segmentation:
  • DINO-ViT-feature: "Deep ViT Features as Dense Visual Descriptors", arXiv, 2022 (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]

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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]
  • VLF: "VideoLightFormer: Lightweight Action Recognition using Transformers", arXiv, 2021 (The University of Sheffield). [Paper]
  • UniFormer: "UniFormer: Unified Transformer for Efficient Spatiotemporal Representation Learning", ICLR, 2022 (CAS + SenstTime). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Video-Swin: "Video Swin Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DirecFormer: "DirecFormer: A Directed Attention in Transformer Approach to Robust Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (University of Arkansas). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • DVT: "Deformable Video Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
  • MeMViT: "MeMViT: Memory-Augmented Multiscale Vision Transformer for Efficient Long-Term Video Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
  • MLP-3D: "MLP-3D: A MLP-like 3D Architecture with Grouped Time Mixing", CVPR, 2022 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
  • RViT: "Recurring the Transformer for Video Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (TCL Corporate Research, HK). [Paper]
  • SIFA: "Stand-Alone Inter-Frame Attention in Video Models", CVPR, 2022 (JD). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MViTv2: "MViTv2: Improved Multiscale Vision Transformers for Classification and Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MTV: "Multiview Transformers for Video Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • ORViT: "Object-Region Video Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][Website]
  • TIME: "Time Is MattEr: Temporal Self-supervision for Video Transformers", ICML, 2022 (KAIST). [Paper]
  • AIA: "Attention in Attention: Modeling Context Correlation for Efficient Video Classification", TCSVT, 2022 (University of Science and Technology of China). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MSCA: "Vision Transformer with Cross-attention by Temporal Shift for Efficient Action Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Nagoya Institute of Technology). [Paper]
  • SViT: "Bringing Image Scene Structure to Video via Frame-Clip Consistency of Object Tokens", arXiv, 2022 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][Website]
• 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]
  • ?: "Spatial Transformer Network with Transfer Learning for Small-scale Fine-grained Skeleton-based Tai Chi Action Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Harbin Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• 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)]
  • M&M: "M&M Mix: A Multimodal Multiview Transformer Ensemble", CVPRW, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • MVFT: "Multi-View Fusion Transformer for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
• Group Activity:
  • GroupFormer: "GroupFormer: Group Activity Recognition with Clustered Spatial-Temporal Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Sensetime). [Paper]
  • ?: "Hunting Group Clues with Transformers for Social Group Activity Recognition", ECCV, 2022 (Hitachi). [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]
• 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]
• MS-TCT: "MS-TCT: Multi-Scale Temporal ConvTransformer for Action Detection", CVPR, 2022 (INRIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UGPT: "Uncertainty-Guided Probabilistic Transformer for Complex Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY). [Paper]
• TubeR: "TubeR: Tube-Transformer for Action Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
• DDM-Net: "Progressive Attention on Multi-Level Dense Difference Maps for Generic Event Boundary Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Nanjing University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Dual-Stream Transformer for Generic Event Boundary Captioning", CVPRW, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
• EAMAT: "Entity-aware and Motion-aware Transformers for Language-driven Action Localization in Videos", IJCAI, 2022 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• 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/Anticipation

• 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]
• FUTR: "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]
• HODOR: "Differentiable Soft-Masked Attention", CVPRW, 2022 (RWTH Aachen University, Germany). [Paper]
• AOT: "Associating Objects with Scalable Transformers for Video Object Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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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)]
• TeViT: "Temporally Efficient Vision Transformer for Video Instance Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GMP-VIS: "A Graph Matching Perspective With Transformers on Video Instance Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Shandong University). [Paper]
• MS-STS: "Video Instance Segmentation via Multi-scale Spatio-temporal Split Attention Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• VITA: "VITA: Video Instance Segmentation via Object Token Association", arXiv, 2022 (Yonsei University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• IFR: "Consistent Video Instance Segmentation with Inter-Frame Recurrent Attention", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]

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Other Video Tasks

• Action Segmentation
  • ASFormer: "ASFormer: Transformer for Action Segmentation", BMVC, 2021 (Peking University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SC-Transformer++: "SC-Transformer++: Structured Context Transformer for Generic Event Boundary Detection", CVPRW, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • ?: "Transformers in Action: Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]
  • CETNet: "Cross-Enhancement Transformer for Action Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Shijiazhuang Tiedao University). [Paper]
  • EUT: "Efficient U-Transformer with Boundary-Aware Loss for Action Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
  • SC-Transformer: "Structured Context Transformer for Generic Event Boundary Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• Video Segmentation (General):
  • TF-DL: "TubeFormer-DeepLab: Video Mask Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• 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]
  • ?: "Learning Future Object Prediction with a Spatiotemporal Detection Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Zenseact, Sweden). [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:
  • 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]
  • BEVT: "BEVT: BERT Pretraining of Video Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SCVRL: "SCVRL: Shuffled Contrastive Video Representation Learning", CVPRW, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • VideoMAE: "VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training", CVPRW, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • VIMPAC: "VIMPAC: Video Pre-Training via Masked Token Prediction and Contrastive Learning", CVPRW, 2022 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MAE: "Masked Autoencoders As Spatiotemporal Learners", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper]
  • OmniMAE: "OmniMAE: Single Model Masked Pretraining on Images and Videos", arXiv, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MaskViT: "MaskViT: Masked Visual Pre-Training for Video Prediction", arXiv, 2022 (Stanford). [Paper][Website]
• X-shot:
  • ResT: "Cross-modal Representation Learning for Zero-shot Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
  • ViSET: "Zero-Shot Action Recognition with Transformer-based Video Semantic Embedding", arXiv, 2022 (University of South FLorida). [Paper]
• 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]
  • VRDFormer: "VRDFormer: End-to-End Video Visual Relation Detection With Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Renmin University of China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • VidSGG-BIG: "Classification-Then-Grounding: Reformulating Video Scene Graphs as Temporal Bipartite Graphs", CVPR, 2022 (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]
• 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

• Masked Transformers: "End-to-End Dense Video Captioning with Masked Transformer", CVPR, 2018 (UMich + Salesforce). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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] [PyTorch]
• Hypergraph-Transformer: "Hypergraph Transformer: Weakly-supervised Multi-hop Reasoning for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering", ACL, 2022 (SNU). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• X-Trans2Cap: "X-Trans2Cap: Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer using Transformer for 3D Dense Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
• SwinBERT: "SwinBERT: End-to-End Transformers with Sparse Attention for Video Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UTC: "UTC: A Unified Transformer with Inter-Task Contrastive Learning for Visual Dialog", CVPR, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper]
• VisualGPT: "VisualGPT: Data-efficient Adaptation of Pretrained Language Models for Image Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (KAUST). [Paper][PyTorch]
• LaTr: "LaTr: Layout-Aware Transformer for Scene-Text VQA", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
• QAA: "Query and Attention Augmentation for Knowledge-Based Explainable Reasoning", CVPR, 2022 (University of Minnesota). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ViTCAP: "Injecting Semantic Concepts into End-to-End Image Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• WebQA: "WebQA: Multihop and Multimodal QA", CVPR, 2022 (CMU + Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• CLIP-Event: "CLIP-Event: Connecting Text and Images with Event Structures", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CLIP4IDC: "CLIP4IDC: CLIP for Image Difference Captioning", CVPRW, 2022 (Aalto University, Finland). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• ?: "Efficient Adaptive Image-Language Learning for Visual Question Answering", CVPRW, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• ?: "A Dual-Attentive Approach to Style-Based Image Captioning Using a CNN-Transformer Model", CVPRW, 2022 (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica). [Paper]
• SpaCap3D: "Spatiality-guided Transformer for 3D Dense Captioning on Point Clouds", IJCAI, 2022 (University of Sydney). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
• cViL: "cViL: Cross-Lingual Training of Vision-Language Models using Knowledge Distillation", ICPR, 2022 (IIIT, Hyderabad). [Paper]
• ?: "Weakly Supervised Grounding for VQA in Vision-Language Transformers", ECCV, 2022 (UCF). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• VGT: "Video Graph Transformer for Video Question Answering", ECCV, 2022 (Sea AI Lab). [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]
• PAVCR: "Attention Mechanism based Cognition-level Scene Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany). [Paper]
• LW-Transformer: "Towards Lightweight Transformer via Group-wise Transformation for Vision-and-Language Tasks", arXiv, 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• D2: "Dual-Level Decoupled Transformer for Video Captioning", arXiv, 2022 (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China). [Paper]
• VaT: "Variational Transformer: A Framework Beyond the Trade-off between Accuracy and Diversity for Image Captioning", arXiv, 2022 (Tongji University). [Paper]
• REVIVE: "REVIVE: Regional Visual Representation Matters in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [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]
• UNICORN: "Crossing the Format Boundary of Text and Boxes: Towards Unified Vision-Language Modeling", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [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]
• GLIP: "Grounded Language-Image Pre-training", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• M-DGT: "Multi-Modal Dynamic Graph Transformer for Visual Grounding", CVPR, 2022 (University of Toronto). [Paper][PyTorch]
• QRNet: "Shifting More Attention to Visual Backbone: Query-modulated Refinement Networks for End-to-End Visual Grounding", CVPR, 2022 (East China Normal University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STVGFormer: "STVGFormer: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding with Static-Dynamic Cross-Modal Understanding", ACMMMW, 2022 (Sun Yat-sen University). [Paper]
• 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)]
• BEST: "Visual Clues: Bridging Vision and Language Foundations for Image Paragraph Captioning", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• GLIPv2: "GLIPv2: Unifying Localization and Vision-Language Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransVG++: "TransVG++: End-to-End Visual Grounding with Language Conditioned Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (USTC). [Paper]

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Multi-Modal Representation Learning

• LXMERT: "LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers", EMNLP, 2019 (UNC). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ViLBERT: "ViLBERT: Pretraining Task-Agnostic Visiolinguistic Representations for Vision-and-Language Tasks", NeurIPS, 2019 (Georgia Tech). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Unified-VLP: "Unified Vision-Language Pre-Training for Image Captioning and VQA", AAAI, 2020 (UMich + Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UNITER: "UNITER: UNiversal Image-TExt Representation Learning", ECCV, 2020 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• CLIP: "Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision", ICML, 2021 (OpenAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• Florence: "Florence: A New Foundation Model for Computer Vision", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• UFO: "UFO: A UniFied TransfOrmer for Vision-Language Representation Learning", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• TAN: "Temporal Alignment Networks for Long-term Video", CVPR, 2022 (Oxford). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]
• LiT: "LiT: Zero-Shot Transfer with Locked-image text Tuning", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• UniCL: "Unified Contrastive Learning in Image-Text-Label Space", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FLAVA: "FLAVA: A Foundational Language And Vision Alignment Model", CVPR, 2022 (Meta). [Paper][Pretrained Model][Code][Dataset][Website][Demos]
• LEMON: "Scaling Up Vision-Language Pre-training for Image Captioning", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• METER: "An Empirical Study of Training End-to-End Vision-and-Language Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• HD-VILA: "Advancing High-Resolution Video-Language Representation with Large-Scale Video Transcriptions", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][GitHub]
• ATP: "Revisiting the "Video" in Video-Language Understanding", CVPR, 2022 (Stanford). [Paper][Website]
• CM-mix: "Pre-training image-language transformers for open-vocabulary tasks", CVPRW, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• VLMixer: "VLMixer: Unpaired Vision-Language Pre-training via Cross-Modal CutMix", ICML, 2022 (Southern University of Science and Technology). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• VLUE: "VLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models", ICML, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper][Website][PyTorch]
• X-VLM: "Multi-Grained Vision Language Pre-Training: Aligning Texts with Visual Concepts", ICML, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BLIP: "BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation", ICML, 2022 (Salesforce). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VLMo: "VLMo: Unified Vision-Language Pre-Training with Mixture-of-Modality-Experts", arXiv, 2022 (Microsofot). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• 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]
• Flamingo: "Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning", arXiv, 2022 (DeepMind). [Paper]
• PyramidCLIP: "PyramidCLIP: Hierarchical Feature Alignment for Vision-language Model Pretraining", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]
• CoCa: "CoCa: Contrastive Captioners are Image-Text Foundation Models", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• VLC: "Training Vision-Language Transformers from Captions Alone", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• UViM: "UViM: A Unified Modeling Approach for Vision with Learned Guiding Codes", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• GIT: "GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• CyCLIP: "CyCLIP: Cyclic Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining", arXiv, 2022 (UCLA). [Paper]
• CCLM: "Cross-View Language Modeling: Towards Unified Cross-Lingual Cross-Modal Pre-training", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• VL-BEiT: "VL-BEiT: Generative Vision-Language Pretraining", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper]
• EgoVLP: "Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining", arXiv, 2022 (NUS). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Singularity: "Revealing Single Frame Bias for Video-and-Language Learning", arXiv, 2022 (UNC). [Paper]
• Uni-Perceiver-MoE: "Uni-Perceiver-MoE: Learning Sparse Generalist Models with Conditional MoEs", arXiv, 2022 (SenseTime). [Paper]
• MetaLM: "Language Models are General-Purpose Interfaces", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DaVinci: "Prefix Language Models are Unified Modal Learners", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
• FIBER: "Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Pre-training with Fusion in the Backbone", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Bridge-Tower: "Bridge-Tower: Building Bridges Between Encoders in Vision-Language Representation Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• e-CLIP: "e-CLIP: Large-Scale Vision-Language Representation Learning in E-commerce", arXiv, 2022 (NAVER). [Paper]
• LAVENDER: "LAVENDER: Unifying Video-Language Understanding as Masked Language Modeling", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][Code (in construction)]

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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]
• WebVid-2M: "Frozen in Time: A Joint Video and Image Encoder for End-to-End Retrieval", ICCV, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper]
• VisualSparta: "VisualSparta: Sparse Transformer Fragment-level Matching for Large-scale Text-to-Image Search", arXiv, 2021 (CMU). [Paper]
• CCR-CCS: "More Than Just Attention: Learning Cross-Modal Attentions with Contrastive Constraints", arXiv, 2021 (Rutgers + Amazon). [Paper]
• MCProp: "Transformer-Based Multi-modal Proposal and Re-Rank for Wikipedia Image-Caption Matching", ICLRW, 2022 (National Research Council, Italy). [Paper][PyTorch]
• UMT: "UMT: Unified Multi-modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in constrcution)]
• MMFT: "Everything at Once - Multi-modal Fusion Transformer for Video Retrieval", CVPR, 2022 (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany). [Paper]
• X-Pool: "X-Pool: Cross-Modal Language-Video Attention for Text-Video Retrieval", CVPR, 2022 (Layer 6 AI, Toronto). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• MVPt: "It's Time for Artistic Correspondence in Music and Video", CVPR, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper][Website]
• CenterCLIP: "CenterCLIP: Token Clustering for Efficient Text-Video Retrieval", SIGIR, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper]
• 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]
• MILES: "MILES: Visual BERT Pre-training with Injected Language Semantics for Video-text Retrieval", arXiv, 2022 (HKU). [Paper]
• TNLBT: "Transformer-based Cross-Modal Recipe Embeddings with Large Batch Training", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan). [Paper]
• HiVLP: "HiVLP: Hierarchical Vision-Language Pre-Training for Fast Image-Text Retrieval", arXiv, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]

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Multi-Modal 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]
• Layout-VQGAN: "Text-to-Image Synthesis Based on Object-Guided Joint-Decoding Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
• Lafite: "Towards Language-Free Training for Text-to-Image Generation", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• AvatarCLIP: "AvatarCLIP: Zero-Shot Text-Driven Generation and Animation of 3D Avatars", SIGGRAPH, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [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]
• DALL-E-2: "Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents", arXiv, 2022 (OpenAI). [Paper][Website]
• CogView2: "CogView2: Faster and Better Text-to-Image Generation via Hierarchical Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "A very preliminary analysis of DALL-E 2", arXiv, 2022 (NYU). [Paper]
• Imagen: "Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Website]
• GLIDE: "GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models", arXiv, 2022 (OpenAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Discovering the Hidden Vocabulary of DALLE-2", arXiv, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper]
• Parti: "Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][GitHub][Website]

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Visual Document Understanding

• LayoutLMv2: "LayoutLMv2: Multi-modal Pre-training for Visually-Rich Document Understanding", ACL, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DocFormer: "DocFormer: End-to-End Transformer for Document Understanding", ICCV, 2021 (Amazon). [Paper]
• LayoutXLM: "LayoutXLM: Multimodal Pre-training for Multilingual Visually-rich Document Understanding", arXiv, 2021 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TableFormer: "TableFormer: Table Structure Understanding with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (IBM). [Paper]
• Donut: "Donut: Document Understanding Transformer without OCR", ECCV, 2022 (NAVER). [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)]
• LayoutLMv3: "LayoutLMv3: Pre-training for Document AI with Unified Text and Image Masking", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MATrIX: "MATrIX - Modality-Aware Transformer for Information eXtraction", arXiv, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
• VLCDoC: "VLCDoC: Vision-Language Contrastive Pre-Training Model for Cross-Modal Document Classification", arXiv, 2022 (La Rochelle University, France). [Paper]
• Bi-VLDoc: "Bi-VLDoc: Bidirectional Vision-Language Modeling for Visually-Rich Document Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]

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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][Code (in construction)]
• GCL: "Stacked Hybrid-Attention and Group Collaborative Learning for Unbiased Scene Graph Generation", CVPR, 2022 (Shandong University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• RelTR: "RelTR: Relation Transformer for Scene Graph Generation", arXiv, 2022 (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Other Multi-Modal Tasks

• X-Shot:
  • LIMoE: "Multimodal Contrastive Learning with LIMoE: the Language-Image Mixture of Experts", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• Segmentation:
  • VLT: "Vision-Language Transformer and Query Generation for Referring Segmentation", ICCV, 2021 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • LAVT: "LAVT: Language-Aware Vision Transformer for Referring Image Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (Oxford). [Paper]
  • ReSTR: "ReSTR: Convolution-free Referring Image Segmentation Using Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (POSTECH). [Paper][Website]
• Tracking:
  • ModaMixer: "Divert More Attention to Vision-Language Tracking", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Analysis:
  • MM-Explainability: "Generic Attention-model Explainability for Interpreting Bi-Modal and Encoder-Decoder Transformers", ICCV, 2021 (Tel Aviv). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ?: "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]
  • VL-CheckList: "VL-CheckList: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models with Objects, Attributes and Relations", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• 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]
  • Pix2Seq: "A Unified Sequence Interface for Vision Tasks", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • Unified-IO: "Unified-IO: A Unified Model for Vision, Language, and Multi-Modal Tasks", arXiv, 2022 (AI2). [Paper][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]
  • SwinFuse: "SwinFuse: A Residual Swin Transformer Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images", arXiv, 2022 (Taiyuan University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
  • ?: "Array Camera Image Fusion using Physics-Aware Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Arizona). [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]
  • MDAN: "MDAN: Multi-level Dependent Attention Network for Visual Emotion Analysis", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [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]
• Audio-Visual:
  • AVCA: "Audio-visual Generalised Zero-shot Learning with Cross-modal Attention and Language", CVPR, 2022 (University of Tubingen, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Sentiment Analysis:
  • MCMulT: "Multi-scale Cooperative Multimodal Transformers for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Videos", arXiv, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper]

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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][PyTorch]
• ShapeFormer: "ShapeFormer: Transformer-based Shape Completion via Sparse Representation", CVPR, 2022 (Shenzhen University). [Paper][Website]
• PatchFormer: "PatchFormer: An Efficient Point Transformer with Patch Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper]
• ?: "An MIL-Derived Transformer for Weakly Supervised Point Cloud Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (NTU + NYCU). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Point-BERT: "Point-BERT: Pre-training 3D Point Cloud Transformers with Masked Point Modeling", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• PTTR: "PTTR: Relational 3D Point Cloud Object Tracking with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Sensetime). [Paper][PyTorch]
• GeoTransformer: "Geometric Transformer for Fast and Robust Point Cloud Registration", CVPR, 2022 (National University of Defense Technology, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "3D Part Assembly Generation with Instance Encoded Transformer", IROS, 2022 (Tongji University). [Paper]
• 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]
• 3DCTN: "3DCTN: 3D Convolution-Transformer Network for Point Cloud Classification", arXiv, 2022 (University of Waterloo, Canada). [Paper]
• VNT-Net: "VNT-Net: Rotational Invariant Vector Neuron Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel). [Paper]
• CompleteDT: "CompleteDT: Point Cloud Completion with Dense Augment Inference Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Institute of Technology). [Paper]
• VN-Transformer: "VN-Transformer: Rotation-Equivariant Attention for Vector Neurons", arXiv, 2022 (Waymo). [Paper]
• Voxel-MAE: "Masked Autoencoders for Self-Supervised Learning on Automotive Point Clouds", arXiv, 2022 (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden). [Paper]
• MAE3D: "Masked Autoencoders in 3D Point Cloud Representation Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Northwest A&F University, China). [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]
  • TCFormer: "Not All Tokens Are Equal: Human-centric Visual Analysis via Token Clustering Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • PETR: "End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation With Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Hikvision). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • GraFormer: "GraFormer: Graph-Oriented Transformer for 3D Pose Estimation", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper]
  • Keypoint-Transformer: "Keypoint Transformer: Solving Joint Identification in Challenging Hands and Object Interactions for Accurate 3D Pose Estimation", CVPR, 2022 (Graz University of Technology, Austria). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • MPS-Net: "Capturing Humans in Motion: Temporal-Attentive 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation from Monocular Video", CVPR, 2022 (Academia Sinica). [Paper][Website]
  • Ego-STAN: "Building Spatio-temporal Transformers for Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation", CVPRW, 2022 (University of Waterloo, Canada). [Paper]
  • AggPose: "AggPose: Deep Aggregation Vision Transformer for Infant Pose Estimation", IJCAI, 2022 (Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Childiren’s Hospital). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MotionMixer: "MotionMixer: MLP-based 3D Human Body Pose Forecasting", IJCAI, 2022 (Ulm University, Germany). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • 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]
  • ViTPose: "ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • VTP: "VTP: Volumetric Transformer for Multi-view Multi-person 3D Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Hangzhou Dianzi University). [Paper]
  • HeatER: "HeatER: An Efficient and Unified Network for Human Reconstruction via Heatmap-based TransformER", arXiv, 2022 (UCF). [Paper]
  • SeTHPose: "Learning Sequential Contexts using Transformer for 3D Hand Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Queen's University, Canada). [Paper]
  • GraphMLP: "GraphMLP: A Graph MLP-Like Architecture for 3D Human Pose Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (Peking University). [Paper]
  • siMLPe: "Back to MLP: A Simple Baseline for Human Motion Prediction", arXiv, 2022 (INRIA). [Paper][Pytorch]
  • Snipper: "Snipper: A Spatiotemporal Transformer for Simultaneous Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation Tracking and Forecasting on a Video Snippet", arXiv, 2022 (University of Alberta, Canada). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
  • AFT-VO: "AFT-VO: Asynchronous Fusion Transformers for Multi-View Visual Odometry Estimation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Surrey, UK). [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)]
• 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]
• CSwinTT: "Transformer Tracking with Cyclic Shifting Window Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STNet: "Spiking Transformers for Event-Based Single Object Tracking", CVPR, 2022 (Dalian University of Technology). [Paper]
• TrackFormer: "TrackFormer: Multi-Object Tracking with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Facebook). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SparseTT: "SparseTT: Visual Tracking with Sparse Transformers", IJCAI, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• TransMOT: "Transformers for Multi-Object Tracking on Point Clouds", IV, 2022 (Bosch). [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]
• TranSTAM: "Joint Spatial-Temporal and Appearance Modeling with Transformer for Multiple Object Tracking", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua University). [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]
• NFormer: "NFormer: Robust Person Re-identification with Neighbor Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• DCAL: "Dual Cross-Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization and Object Re-Identification", CVPR, 2022 (Advanced Micro Devices, China). [Paper]
• 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]
  • 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 Lab). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • FaRL: "General Facial Representation Learning in a Visual-Linguistic Manner", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • FaceFormer: "FaceFormer: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • PhysFormer: "PhysFormer: Facial Video-based Physiological Measurement with Temporal Difference Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (University of Oulu, Finland). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • DTLD: "Towards Accurate Facial Landmark Detection via Cascaded Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Samsung). [Paper]
  • RestoreFormer: "RestoreFormer: High-Quality Blind Face Restoration From Undegraded Key-Value Pairs", CVPR, 2022 (HKU). [Paper]
  • VTP: "Sub-word Level Lip Reading With Visual Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Oxford). [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]
  • Cycle-Text2Face: "Cycle Text2Face: Cycle Text-to-face GAN via Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Shahed Univerisity, Iran). [Paper]
  • CodeFormer: "Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)][Website]
• 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]
  • STT: "Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild", arXiv, 2022 (*Hunan University *). [Paper]
  • FaceMAE: "FaceMAE: Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition via Masked Autoencoders", arXiv, 2022 (NUS). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • RePFormer: "RePFormer: Refinement Pyramid Transformer for Robust Facial Landmark Detection", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper]
  • TransFA: "TransFA: Transformer-based Representation for Face Attribute Evaluation", arXiv, 2022 (Xidian University). [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]
  • ICT: "Protecting Celebrities from DeepFake with Identity Consistency Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [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]
  • ?: "Cross-Forgery Analysis of Vision Transformers and CNNs for Deepfake Image Detection", arXiv, 2022 (National Research Council, Italy). [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]
• ViT-ResNAS: "Searching for Efficient Multi-Stage Vision Transformers", ICCVW, 2021 (MIT). [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]
• 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", CVPR, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BurgerFormer: "Searching for BurgerFormer with Micro-Meso-Macro Space Design", ICML, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• UniNet: "UniNet: Unified Architecture Search with Convolution, Transformer, and MLP", ECCV, 2022 (CUHK + SenseTime). [Paper]
• VTCAS: "Vision Transformer with Convolutions Architecture Search", arXiv, 2022 (Donghua University). [Paper]
• NOAH: "Neural Prompt Search", arXiv, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper][PyTorch]

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Transfer / X-Supervised / X-Shot / Continual Learning

• Transfer Learning:
  • AdaptFormer: "AdaptFormer: Adapting Vision Transformers for Scalable Visual Recognition", arXiv, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][Website]
• 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]
  • SSRT: "Safe Self-Refinement for Transformer-based Domain Adaptation", CVPR, 2022 (Stony Brook). [Paper]
  • 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]
  • PACMAC: "Adapting Self-Supervised Vision Transformers by Probing Attention-Conditioned Masking Consistency", arXiv, 2022 (Georgia Tech). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
  • 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]
  • HCTransformers: "Attribute Surrogates Learning and Spectral Tokens Pooling in Transformers for Few-shot Learning", CVPR, 2022 (Fudan University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • HyperTransformer: "HyperTransformer: Model Generation for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • STRM: "Spatio-temporal Relation Modeling for Few-shot Action Recognition", CVPR, 2022 (MBZUAI). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
  • HyperTransformer: "HyperTransformer: Model Generation for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning", ICML, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
  • CPM: "Compound Prototype Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition", ECCV, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper]
  • 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]
  • MG-ViT: "Mask-guided Vision Transformer (MG-ViT) for Few-Shot Learning", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
  • MUST: "Masked Unsupervised Self-training for Zero-shot Image Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Salesforce). [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]
  • LVT: "Continual Learning With Lifelong Vision Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (The University of Sydney). [Paper]
  • L2P: "Learning to Prompt for Continual Learning", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • ?: "Simpler is Better: off-the-shelf Continual Learning Through Pretrained Backbones", CVPRW, 2022 (Ca' Foscari University, Italy). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ADA: "Continual Learning with Transformers for Image Classification", CVPRW, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • ?: "Towards Exemplar-Free Continual Learning in Vision Transformers: an Account of Attention, Functional and Weight Regularization", CVPRW, 2022 (Ca' Foscari University, Italy). [Paper]
  • COLT: "Transformers Are Better Continual Learners", arXiv, 2022 (Hikvision). [Paper]
• Knowledge Distillation:
  • ?: "Knowledge Distillation via the Target-aware Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper]
  • DearKD: "DearKD: Data-Efficient Early Knowledge Distillation for Vision Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (JD). [Paper]
• Clustering:
  • VTCC: "Vision Transformer for Contrastive Clustering", arXiv, 2022 (Sun Yat-sen University, China). [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]
• DeHamer: "Image Dehazing Transformer With Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding", CVPR, 2022 (Nankai University). [Paper][Website]
• Restormer: "Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration", CVPR, 2022 (IIAI, UAE). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransWeather: "TransWeather: Transformer-based Restoration of Images Degraded by Adverse Weather Conditions", CVPR, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• BSRT: "BSRT: Improving Burst Super-Resolution with Swin Transformer and Flow-Guided Deformable Alignment", CVPRW, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TATT: "A Text Attention Network for Spatial Deformation Robust Scene Text Image Super-resolution", CVPR, 2022 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• KiT: "KNN Local Attention for Image Restoration", CVPR, 2022 (Yonsei University). [Paper]
• LBNet: "Lightweight Bimodal Network for Single-Image Super-Resolution via Symmetric CNN and Recursive Transformer", IJCAI, 2022 (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• 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]
• RSTCANet: "Residual Swin Transformer Channel Attention Network for Image Demosaicing", arXiv, 2022 (Tampere University, Finland). [Paper]
• CTCNet: "CTCNet: A CNN-Transformer Cooperation Network for Face Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications). [Paper]
• DRT: "DRT: A Lightweight Single Image Deraining Recursive Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ANU, Australia). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• HAT: "Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (University of Macau). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• DenSformer: "Dense residual Transformer for image denoising", arXiv, 2022 (University of Science and Technology Beijing). [Paper]
• ShuffleMixer: "ShuffleMixer: An Efficient ConvNet for Image Super-Resolution", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Cubic-Mixer: "UHD Image Deblurring via Multi-scale Cubic-Mixer", arXiv, 2022 (Nanjing University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• PoCoformer: "Polarized Color Image Denoising using Pocoformer", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper]
• MSP-Former: "MSP-Former: Multi-Scale Projection Transformer for Single Image Desnowing", arXiv, 2022 (Jimei University). [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", CVPR, 2022 (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]
• Trans-SVSR: "A New Dataset and Transformer for Stereoscopic Video Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Bahcesehir University, Turkey). [Paper][PyTorch]
• STDAN: "STDAN: Deformable Attention Network for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution", CVPRW, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper]
• VRT: "VRT: A Video Restoration Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][PyTorch]
• FGST: "Flow-Guided Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring", ICML, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• RSTT: "RSTT: Real-time Spatial Temporal Transformer for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VDTR: "VDTR: Video Deblurring with Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• DSCT: "Coarse-to-Fine Video Denoising with Dual-Stage Spatial-Channel Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (*Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications *). [Paper]
• RVRT: "Recurrent Video Restoration Transformer with Guided Deformable Attention", arXiv, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Group-ShiftNet: "No Attention is Needed: Grouped Spatial-temporal Shift for Simple and Efficient Video Restorers", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]

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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][PyTorch][Website]
• MAT: "MAT: Mask-Aware Transformer for Large Hole Image Inpainting", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• PUT: "Reduce Information Loss in Transformers for Pluralistic Image Inpainting", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• DLFormer: "DLFormer: Discrete Latent Transformer for Video Inpainting", CVPR, 2022 (Tencent). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• QueryOTR: "Outpainting by Queries", ECCV, 2022 (University of Liverpool, UK). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• U-Transformer: "Generalised Image Outpainting with U-Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). [Paper]
• SpA-Former: "SpA-Former: Transformer image shadow detection and removal via spatial attention", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CRFormer: "CRFormer: A Cross-Region Transformer for Shadow Removal", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong 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]
• 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)]
• ViTGAN: "ViTGAN: Training GANs with Vision Transformers", ICLR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch][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][PyTorch]
• StyleSwin: "StyleSwin: Transformer-based GAN for High-resolution Image Generation", CVPR, 2022 (Microsoft). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Styleformer: "Styleformer: Transformer based Generative Adversarial Networks with Style Vector", CVPR, 2022 (Seoul National University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (dome272)]
• AttnFlow: "Generative Flows with Invertible Attentions", CVPR, 2022 (ETHZ). [Paper]
• 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]
• TransNeRF: "Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Novel View Synthesis with Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (UBC). [Paper]
• ?: "Transforming Image Generation from Scene Graphs", arXiv, 2022 (University of Catania, Italy). [Paper]
• VisionNeRF: "Vision Transformer for NeRF-Based View Synthesis from a Single Input Image", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Website]

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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]
• VFIformer: "Video Frame Interpolation with Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• VFIT: "Video Frame Interpolation Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (McMaster Univeristy, Canada). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• CogVideo: "CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua University) [Paper][GitHub (in construction)]
• POVT: "Patch-based Object-centric Transformers for Efficient Video Generation", arXiv, 2022 (Berkeley). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• TAIN: "Cross-Attention Transformer for Video Interpolation", arXiv, 2022 (Duke). [Paper]

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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", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• QS-Attn: "QS-Attn: Query-Selected Attention for Contrastive Learning in I2I Translation", CVPR, 2022 (Shanghai Key Laboratory). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ASSET: "ASSET: Autoregressive Semantic Scene Editing with Transformers at High Resolutions", SIGGRAPH, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper][PyTorch][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]
• CLIPasso: "CLIPasso: Semantically-Aware Object Sketching", arXiv, 2022 (EPFL). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• CTrGAN: "CTrGAN: Cycle Transformers GAN for Gait Transfer", arXiv, 2022 (Ariel University, Israel). [Paper]
• PI-Trans: "PI-Trans: Parallel-ConvMLP and Implicit-Transformation Based GAN for Cross-View Image Translation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Trento, Italy). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]

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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]
  • URSCT-UIE: "Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement", arXiv, 2022 (Ningbo University). [Paper]
  • IAT: "Illumination Adaptive Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Harmonization:
  • HT: "Image Harmonization With Transformer", ICCV, 2021 (Ocean University of China). [Paper]
• 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]
  • STF: "The Devil Is in the Details: Window-based Attention for Image Compression", CVPR, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • Contextformer: "Contextformer: A Transformer with Spatio-Channel Attention for Context Modeling in Learned Image Compression", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]
  • VCT: "VCT: A Video Compression Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper]
• Matting:
  • MatteFormer: "MatteFormer: Transformer-Based Image Matting via Prior-Tokens", CVPR, 2022 (SNU + NAVER). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
  • MST: "Mask-guided Spectral-wise Transformer for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction", CVPR, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • MST++: "MST++: Multi-stage Spectral-wise Transformer for Efficient Spectral Reconstruction", CVPRW, 2022 (Tsinghua). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 3D:
  • MNSRNet: "MNSRNet: Multimodal Transformer Network for 3D Surface Super-Resolution", CVPR, 2022 (Shenzhen University). [Paper]
• Others:
  • TransMEF: "TransMEF: A Transformer-Based Multi-Exposure Image Fusion Framework using Self-Supervised Multi-Task Learning", AAAI, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper]
  • MS-Unet: "Semi-Supervised Wide-Angle Portraits Correction by Multi-Scale Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • 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]
  • MatFormer: "MatFormer: A Generative Model for Procedural Materials", arXiv, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper]
  • FishFormer: "FishFormer: Annulus Slicing-based Transformer for Fisheye Rectification with Efficacy Domain Exploration", arXiv, 2022 (Beijing Jiaotong University). [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]
• ADAPT: "ADAPT: Vision-Language Navigation with Modality-Aligned Action Prompts", CVPR, 2022 (Huawei). [Paper]
• DUET: "Think Global, Act Local: Dual-scale Graph Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation", CVPR, 2022 (INRIA). [Paper][Website]
• LSA: "Local Slot Attention for Vision-and-Language Navigation", ICMR, 2022 (Fudan). [Paper]
• TransFuser: "TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving", arXiv, 2022 (MPI). [Paper]

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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]
• CtrlFormer: "CtrlFormer: Learning Transferable State Representation for Visual Control via Transformer", ICML, 2022 (HKU). [Paper][PyTorch][Website]
• PromptDT: "Prompting Decision Transformer for Few-Shot Policy Generalization", ICML, 2022 (CMU). [Paper][Website]
• RAD: "Evaluating Vision Transformer Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning from Pixels", arXiv, 2022 (UBC, Canada). [Paper]
• MWM: "Masked World Models for Visual Control", arXiv, 2022 (Berkeley). [Paper][Tensorflow][Website]

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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]
• ?: "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]
• Swin-UNETR: "Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Swin Transformers for 3D Medical Image Analysis", CVPR, 2022 (NVIDIA). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TFCNs: "TFCNs: A CNN-Transformer Hybrid Network for Medical Image Segmentation", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• MIL: "Transformer based multiple instance learning for weakly supervised histopathology image segmentation", MICCAI, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper]
• mmFormer: "mmFormer: Multimodal Medical Transformer for Incomplete Multimodal Learning of Brain Tumor Segmentation", MICCAI, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Patcher: "Patcher: Patch Transformers with Mixture of Experts for Precise Medical Image Segmentation", MICCAI, 2022 (Pennsylvania State University). [Paper]
• ?: "Transformer-based out-of-distribution detection for clinically safe segmentation", Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2022 (King’s College London). [Paper]
• 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]
• 3D-Shuffle-Mixer: "3D Shuffle-Mixer: An Efficient Context-Aware Vision Learner of Transformer-MLP Paradigm for Dense Prediction in Medical Volume", arXiv, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong University). [Paper]
• ?: "Continual Hippocampus Segmentation with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany). [Paper]
• TranSiam: "TranSiam: Fusing Multimodal Visual Features Using Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Tianjin University). [Paper]
• ColonFormer: "ColonFormer: An Efficient Transformer based Method for Colon Polyp Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Hanoi University of Science and Technology). [Paper]
• ?: "Transformer based Generative Adversarial Network for Liver Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Northwestern University). [Paper]
• FCT: "The Fully Convolutional Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (University of Glasgow, UK). [Paper]
• XBound-Former: "XBound-Former: Toward Cross-scale Boundary Modeling in Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Xiamen University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Polyp-PVT: "Polyp-PVT: Polyp Segmentation with Pyramid Vision Transformers", arxiv, 2022 (IIAI). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SeATrans: "SeATrans: Learning Segmentation-Assisted diagnosis model via Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Baidu). [Paper]
• TransResU-Net: "TransResU-Net: Transformer based ResU-Net for Real-Time Colonoscopy Polyp Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Indira Gandhi National Open University). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• LViT: "LViT: Language meets Vision Transformer in Medical Image Segmentation", arXiv, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• APFormer: "The Lighter The Better: Rethinking Transformers in Medical Image Segmentation Through Adaptive Pruning", arXiv, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Transformer based Models for Unsupervised Anomaly Segmentation in Brain MR Images", arXiv, 2022 (University of Rennes, France). [Paper][Tensorflow]

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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]
• M3T: "M3T: Three-Dimensional Medical Image Classifier Using Multi-Plane and Multi-Slice Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (Yonsei University). [Paper]
• ?: "A comparative study between vision transformers and CNNs in digital pathology", CVPRW, 2022 (Roche, Switzerland). [Paper]
• SCT: "Context-Aware Transformers For Spinal Cancer Detection and Radiological Grading", MICCAI, 2022 (Oxford). [Paper]
• KAT: "Kernel Attention Transformer (KAT) for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification", MICCAI, 2022 (Beihang University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
• LA-MIL: "Local Attention Graph-based Transformer for Multi-target Genetic Alteration Prediction", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]
• HoVer-Trans: "HoVer-Trans: Anatomy-aware HoVer-Transformer for ROI-free Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Ultrasound Images", arXiv, 2022 (South China University of Technology). [Paper]
• GTP: "A graph-transformer for whole slide image classification", arXiv, 2022 (Boston University). [Paper]
• ?: "Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning for Lung Cancer Multi-Label Classification using Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Harvard). [Paper]
• SwinCheX: "SwinCheX: Multi-label classification on chest X-ray images with transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Sharif University of Technology, Iran). [Paper]
• SGT: "Rectify ViT Shortcut Learning by Visual Saliency", arXiv, 2022 (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China). [Paper]
• IPMN-ViT: "Neural Transformers for Intraductal Papillary Mucosal Neoplasms (IPMN) Classification in MRI images", arXiv, 2022 (University of Catania, Italy). [Paper]
• ?: "Multi-Label Retinal Disease Classification using Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Khalifa University, UAE). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TractoFormer: "TractoFormer: A Novel Fiber-level Whole Brain Tractography Analysis Framework Using Spectral Embedding and Vision Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Harvard). [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]
• SDAUT: "Swin Deformable Attention U-Net Transformer (SDAUT) for Explainable Fast MRI", MICCAI, 2022 (ICL). [Paper]
• ?: "Adaptively Re-weighting Multi-Loss Untrained Transformer for Sparse-View Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022 (Zhejiang Lab). [Paper]
• K-Space-Transformer: "K-Space Transformer for Fast MRI Reconstruction with Implicit Representation", arXiv, 2022 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). [Paper][Code (in construction)][Website]

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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]
• RPLHR-CT: "RPLHR-CT Dataset and Transformer Baseline for Volumetric Super-Resolution from CT Scans", MICCAI, 2022 (Infervision Medical Technology, China). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• 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]
• 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)]
• HIPT: "Scaling Vision Transformers to Gigapixel Images via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Learning", CVPR, 2022 (Harvard). [Paper]
• CGT: "Cross-modal Clinical Graph Transformer for Ophthalmic Report Generation", CVPR, 2022 (University of Technology Sydney). [Paper]
• ViT-V-Net: "ViT-V-Net: Vision Transformer for Unsupervised Volumetric Medical Image Registration", ICML, 2022 (JHU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• BabyNet: "BabyNet: Residual Transformer Module for Birth Weight Prediction on Fetal Ultrasound Video", MICCAI, 2022 (Sano Centre for Computational Medicine, Poland). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TLT: "Transformer Lesion Tracker", MICCAI, 2022 (InferVision Medical Technology, China). [Paper]
• XMorpher: "XMorpher: Full Transformer for Deformable Medical Image Registration via Cross Attention", MICCAI, 2022 (Southeast University, China). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SVoRT: "SVoRT: Iterative Transformer for Slice-to-Volume Registration in Fetal Brain MRI", MICCAI, 2022 (MIT). [Paper]
• GaitForeMer: "GaitForeMer: Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Transformers via Human Motion Forecasting for Few-Shot Gait Impairment Severity Estimation", MICCAI, 2022 (Stanford). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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 Analysis with Vision Transformers", CVPRW, 2022 (King’s College London, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• SiT: "Surface Vision Transformers: Flexible Attention-Based Modelling of Biomedical Surfaces", arXiv, 2022 (King’s College London, UK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• TransMorph: "TransMorph: Transformer for unsupervised medical image registration", arXiv, 2022 (JHU). [Paper]
• MDBERT: "Hierarchical BERT for Medical Document Understanding", arXiv, 2022 (IQVIA, NC). [Paper]
• SymTrans: "Symmetric Transformer-based Nwholeetwork for Unsupervised Image Registration", arXiv, 2022 (Jilin University). [Paper]
• MMT: "One Model to Synthesize Them All: Multi-contrast Multi-scale Transformer for Missing Data Imputation", arXiv, 2022 (JHU). [Paper]
• EG-ViT: "Eye-gaze-guided Vision Transformer for Rectifying Shortcut Learning", arXiv, 2022 (Northwestern Polytechnical University). [Paper]
• CSM: "Contrastive Transformer-based Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Polyp Frame Detection", arXiv, 2022 (University of Adelaide, Australia). [Paper]
• Surgical-VQA: "Surgical-VQA: Visual Question Answering in Surgical Scenes using Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (NUS). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
• SwinMLP-TranCAP: "Rethinking Surgical Captioning: End-to-End Window-Based MLP Transformer Using Patches", arXiv, 2022 (CUHK). [Paper][PyTorch]
• CASHformer: "CASHformer: Cognition Aware SHape Transformer for Longitudinal Analysis", arXiv, 2022 (TUM). [Paper]

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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]
• Brain Score:
  • CrossViT: "Joint rotational invariance and adversarial training of a dual-stream Transformer yields state of the art Brain-Score for Area V4", CVPRW, 2022 (MIT). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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]
  • ?: "SVG Vector Font Generation for Chinese Characters with Transformer", ICIP, 2022 (The University of Tokyo). [Paper]
  • CoMER: "CoMER: Modeling Coverage for Transformer-based Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition", ECCV, 2022 (Peking University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • CONSENT: "CONSENT: Context Sensitive Transformer for Bold Words Classification", arXiv, 2022 (Amazon). [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]
  • MAN: "Boosting Crowd Counting via Multifaceted Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Xi'an Jiaotong). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
• Defect Classification:
  • MSHViT: "Multi-Scale Hybrid Vision Transformer and Sinkhorn Tokenizer for Sewer Defect Classification", CVPRW, 2022 (Aalborg University, Denmark). [Paper]
• Digital Holography:
  • ?: "Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) vs Visual Transformer (ViT) for Digital Holography", ICCCR, 2022 (UBFC, France). [Paper]
• Disentangled representation:
  • VCT: "Visual Concepts Tokenization", arXiv, 2022 (Microsoft). [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)]
  • ClothFormer: "ClothFormer: Taming Video Virtual Try-on in All Module", CVPR, 2022 (iQIYI). [Paper][Website]
  • FashionVLP: "FashionVLP: Vision Language Transformer for Fashion Retrieval With Feedback", CVPR, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • 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 (Peking). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
• Feature Matching:
  • SuperGlue: "SuperGlue: Learning Feature Matching with Graph Neural Networks", CVPR, 2020 (Magic Leap). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
  • OpenGlue: "OpenGlue: Open Source Graph Neural Net Based Pipeline for Image Matching", arXiv, 2022 (Ukrainian Catholic University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• 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", CVPR, 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][PyTorch]
  • GAMa: "GAMa: Cross-view Video Geo-localization", ECCV, 2022 (UCF). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • TransGCNN: "Transformer-Guided Convolutional Neural Network for Cross-View Geolocalization", arXiv, 2022 (Southeast University, China). [Paper]
  • TransLocator: "Where in the World is this Image? Transformer-based Geo-localization in the Wild", arXiv, 2022 (JHU). [Paper]
  • MGTL: "Mutual Generative Transformer Learning for Cross-view Geo-localization", arXiv, 2022 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China). [Paper]
• Homography Estimation:
  • LocalTrans: "LocalTrans: A Multiscale Local Transformer Network for Cross-Resolution Homography Estimation", ICCV, 2021 (Tsinghua). [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]
  • CADTransformer: "CADTransformer: Panoptic Symbol Spotting Transformer for CAD Drawings", CVPR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper]
  • GAT-CADNet: "GAT-CADNet: Graph Attention Network for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings", CVPR, 2022 (TUM + Alibaba). [Paper]
  • LayoutBERT: "LayoutBERT: Masked Language Layout Model for Object Insertion", CVPRW, 2022 (Adobe). [Paper]
  • ATEK: "ATEK: Augmenting Transformers with Expert Knowledge for Indoor Layout Synthesis", arXiv, 2022 (New Jersey Institute of Technology). [Paper]
  • ?: "Extreme Floorplan Reconstruction by Structure-Hallucinating Transformer Cascades", arXiv, 2022 (Simon Fraser). [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-Input:
  • MixViT: "Adapting Multi-Input Multi-Output schemes to Vision Transformers", CVPRW, 2022 (Sorbonne Universite, France). [Paper]
• 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]
• Multi-task:
  • MulT: "MulT: An End-to-End Multitask Learning Transformer", CVPR, 2022 (EPFL). [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", CVPR, 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)]
  • BeT: "Behavior Transformers: Cloning k modes with one stone", arXiv, 2022 (NYU). [Paper][PyTorch]
• Satellite:
  • Satellite-ViT: "Manipulation Detection in Satellite Images Using Vision Transformer", arXiv, 2021 (Purdue). [Paper]
• Scene Decomposition:
  • SRT: "Scene Representation Transformer: Geometry-Free Novel View Synthesis Through Set-Latent Scene Representations", CVPR, 2022 (Google). [Paper][PyTorch (stelzner)][Website]
  • OSRT: "Object Scene Representation Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Google). [Paper][Website]
• 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]
  • TransMVSNet: "TransMVSNet: Global Context-aware Multi-view Stereo Network with Transformers", CVPR, 2022 (Megvii). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • MVSTER: "MVSTER: Epipolar Transformer for Efficient Multi-View Stereo", arXiv, 2022 (CAS). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • WT-MVSNet: "WT-MVSNet: Window-based Transformers for Multi-view Stereo", arXiv, 2022 (Tsinghua University). [Paper]
• Time Series:
  • MissFormer: "MissFormer: (In-)attention-based handling of missing observations for trajectory filtering and prediction", arXiv, 2021 (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany). [Paper]
• Traffic:
  • NEAT: "NEAT: Neural Attention Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving", ICCV, 2021 (MPI). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
  • ?: "Translating Images into Maps", ICRA, 2022 (University of Surrey, UK). [Paper][PyTorch (in construction)]
  • Crossview-Transformer: "Cross-view Transformers for real-time Map-view Semantic Segmentation", CVPR, 2022 (UT Austin). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • ViT-BEVSeg: "ViT-BEVSeg: A Hierarchical Transformer Network for Monocular Birds-Eye-View Segmentation", IJCNN, 2022 (Maynooth University, Ireland). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • BEVFormer: "BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers", ECCV, 2022 (Shanghai AI Lab). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
  • ParkPredict+: "ParkPredict+: Multimodal Intent and Motion Prediction for Vehicles in Parking Lots with CNN and Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Berkeley). [Paper]
  • GKT: "Efficient and Robust 2D-to-BEV Representation Learning via Geometry-guided Kernel Transformer", arXiv, 2022 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology). [Paper][Code (in construction)]
  • CoBEVT: "CoBEVT: Cooperative Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation with Sparse Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (UCLA). [Paper]
• 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][PyTorch][Website]
  • S2TNet: "S2TNet: Spatio-Temporal Transformer Networks for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving", ACML, 2021 (Xi'an Jiaotong University). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • 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]
  • ST-MR: "Graph-based Spatial Transformer with Memory Replay for Multi-Future Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction", CVPR, 2022 (University of New South Wales, Australia). [Paper][Tensorflow]
  • HiVT: "HiVT: Hierarchical Vector Transformer for Multi-Agent Motion Prediction", CVPR, 2022 (CUHK). [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]
• Visual 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]
  • IQA-Conformer: "Conformer and Blind Noisy Students for Improved Image Quality Assessment", CVPRW, 2022 (University of Wurzburg, Germany). [Paper][PyTorch]
  • SwinIQA: "SwinIQA: Learned Swin Distance for Compressed Image Quality Assessment", CVPRW, 2022 (USTC, China). [Paper]
  • MCAS-IQA: "Visual Mechanisms Inspired Efficient Transformers for Image and Video Quality Assessment", arXiv, 2022 (Norwegian Research Centre, Norway). [Paper]
  • MSTRIQ: "MSTRIQ: No Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Swin Transformer with Multi-Stage Fusion", arXiv, 2022 (ByteDance). [Paper]
  • DisCoVQA: "DisCoVQA: Temporal Distortion-Content Transformers for Video Quality Assessment", arXiv, 2022 (NTU, Singapore). [Paper]
• Visual Reasoning:
  • SAViR-T: "SAViR-T: Spatially Attentive Visual Reasoning with Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (Rutgers University). [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]
  • RTVAE: "Recurrent Transformer Variational Autoencoders for Multi-Action Motion Synthesis", CVPRW, 2022 (Amazon). [Paper]
  • 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]
  • 3D-C2FT: "3D-C2FT: Coarse-to-fine Transformer for Multi-view 3D Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022 (Korea Institute of Science and Technology). [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 (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 (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]
• QnA: "Learned Queries for Efficient Local Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Tel-Aviv). [Paper][Jax]
• ?: "Fair Comparison between Efficient Attentions", CVPRW, 2022 (Kyungpook National University, Korea). [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)]
• MGK: "Improving Transformers with Probabilistic Attention Keys", ICML, 2022 (UCLA). [Paper]

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Attention for Both

• Sparse-Transformer: "Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers", arXiv, 2019 (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]
• Paramixer: "Paramixer: Parameterizing Mixing Links in Sparse Factors Works Better Than Dot-Product Self-Attention", CVPR, 2022 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway). [Paper]
• ContextPool: "Efficient Representation Learning via Adaptive Context Pooling", ICML, 2022 (Apple). [Paper]
• LARA: "Linear Complexity Randomized Self-attention Mechanism", ICML, 2022 (Bytedance). [Paper]
• Flowformer: "Flowformer: Linearizing Transformers with Conservation Flows", ICML, 2022 (Tsinghua University). [Paper][PyTorch]
• MRA: "Multi Resolution Analysis (MRA) for Approximate Self-Attention", ICML, 2022 (University of Wisconsin, Madison). [Paper][PyTorch]
• ?: "Horizontal and Vertical Attention in Transformers", arXiv, 2022 (University of Technology Sydney). [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]
• ?: "Choose a Transformer: Fourier or Galerkin", NeurIPS, 2021 (Washington University, St. Louis). [Paper]
• NPT: "Self-Attention Between Datapoints: Going Beyond Individual Input-Output Pairs in Deep Learning", arXiv, 2021 (Oxford). [Paper]
• FEDformer: "FEDformer: Frequency Enhanced Decomposed Transformer for Long-term Series Forecasting", ICML, 2022 (Alibaba). [Paper][PyTorch]

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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

• Online Resources:
  • Papers with Code
  • The Annotated Transformer (Blog)
  • Practical Introduction to Transformers (GitHub)
  • Awesome Transformer Architecture Search (GitHub)
  • Transformer-in-Vision (GitHub)
  • Awesome Visual-Transformer (GitHub)
  • Awesome Transformer for Vision Resources List (GitHub)
  • Transformer-in-Computer-Vision (GitHub)