Summary of Unified Local and Global Attention Interaction Modeling For Vision Transformers, by Tan Nguyen et al.
Unified Local and Global Attention Interaction Modeling for Vision Transformers
by Tan Nguyen, Coy D. Heldermon, Corey Toler-Franklin
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new method to enhance the self-attention mechanism in vision transformers (ViTs) for more accurate object detection across diverse datasets. ViTs have shown strong capabilities in image understanding tasks, leveraging global information from interactions among visual tokens. However, the traditional self-attention mechanism is limited as it does not allow visual tokens to exchange local or global information with neighboring features before computing global attention. To address this limitation, the authors introduce two modifications: aggressive convolution pooling for local feature mixing and conceptual attention transformation for facilitating interaction between semantic concepts. The experimental results demonstrate that exchanging local and global information among visual features before self-attention improves performance on challenging object detection tasks and generalizes across multiple benchmark datasets and medical datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about improving the way computers can look at pictures to find objects. Right now, these computers are really good at recognizing things in images, but they could be even better if they could talk to each other more. The authors have come up with a new way for these computers to share information and make decisions together. This helps them get better at finding objects in pictures, especially when the objects are hard to see or similar to other things. The results show that this new approach can help computers do a better job of recognizing objects in lots of different kinds of images. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Object detection » Self attention
