Recent Developments and Views on Computer Vision x Transformer

On the differences between Transformer and CNN, why Transformer matters, and what its weaknesses are.

Akihiro FUJII
Towards Data Science
18 min readJul 8, 2021

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This article discusses some of the interesting research and insights in Transformer x Computer Vision research since the advent of Vision Transformer. The four themes of this article are as follows

  1. Differences in receptive fields sizes and behavior between Transformer and CNN

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