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Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

Ze Liu, Yutong Lin, Yue Cao, Han Hu, Yixuan Wei, Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin, Baining Guo · IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2021)

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Principal Contribution

Introduced shifted window self-attention delivering linear computational complexity with respect to image size while maintaining cross-window connections.

Operational Relevance

Serves as qualified reference for implementing task-image-classification, task-object-detection, task-image-segmentation in production systems.

Assumptions

  • Underlying spatio-temporal continuity and domain distributional stability hold

Limitations

  • Performance scaling and computational footprint depend on receptive field depth, sequence length, and resolution

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