Kaiming He’s MetaAI Team Proposes ViTDet: A Plain Vision Transformer Backbone Competitive With Hierarchical Backbones on Object Detection

A Meta AI research team explores the plain, non-hierarchical vision transformer (ViT) as a backbone network for object detection, proposing a ViT Detector that achieves performance competitive with traditional hierarchical backbones.

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