Vision Transformer

Vision Transformers (ViTs) adapt the transformer architecture, initially designed for natural language processing, to image analysis by treating images as sequences of patches. Current research focuses on improving ViT efficiency and robustness through techniques like token pruning, attention engineering, and hybrid models combining ViTs with convolutional neural networks or other architectures (e.g., Mamba). These advancements are driving progress in various applications, including medical image analysis, object detection, and spatiotemporal prediction, by offering improved accuracy and efficiency compared to traditional convolutional neural networks in specific tasks.