Swin Transformer

Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

Introduction

Swin Transformer (the name Swin stands for Shifted window) is initially described in the paper, which capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. It is basically a hierarchical Transformer whose representation is computed with shifted windows. The shifted windowing scheme brings greater efficiency by limiting self-attention computation to non-overlapping local windows while also allowing for cross-window connection.

Swin Transformer achieves strong performance on COCO object detection (58.7 box AP and 51.1 mask AP on test-dev) and ADE20K semantic segmentation (53.5 mIoU on val), surpassing previous models by a large margin.

Abstract

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This paper presents a new vision Transformer, called Swin Transformer, that capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. Challenges in adapting Transformer from language to vision arise from differences between the two domains, such as large variations in the scale of visual entities and the high resolution of pixels in images compared to words in text. To address these differences, we propose a hierarchical Transformer whose representation is computed with **Shifted windows**. The shifted windowing scheme brings greater efficiency by limiting self-attention computation to non-overlapping local windows while also allowing for cross-window connection. This hierarchical architecture has the flexibility to model at various scales and has linear computational complexity with respect to image size. These qualities of Swin Transformer make it compatible with a broad range of vision tasks, including image classification (87.3 top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K) and dense prediction tasks such as object detection (58.7 box AP and 51.1 mask AP on COCO test-dev) and semantic segmentation (53.5 mIoU on ADE20K val). Its performance surpasses the previous state-of-the-art by a large margin of +2.7 box AP and +2.6 mask AP on COCO, and +3.2 mIoU on ADE20K, demonstrating the potential of Transformer-based models as vision backbones. The hierarchical design and the shifted window approach also prove beneficial for all-MLP architectures.

How to use it?

Predict imageUse the modelTrain/Test Command

>>> import torch
>>> from mmcls.apis import init_model, inference_model
>>>
>>> model = init_model('configs/swin_transformer/swin-tiny_16xb64_in1k.py', 'https://download.openmmlab.com/mmclassification/v0/swin-transformer/convert/swin_tiny_patch4_window7_224-160bb0a5.pth')
>>> predict = inference_model(model, 'demo/demo.JPEG')
>>> print(predict['pred_class'])
sea snake
>>> print(predict['pred_score'])
0.9092751741409302

For more configurable parameters, please refer to the API.

Results and models

ImageNet-21k

The pre-trained models on ImageNet-21k are used to fine-tune, and therefore don’t have evaluation results.

Model	resolution	Params(M)	Flops(G)	Download
Swin-B	224x224	86.74	15.14	model
Swin-B	384x384	86.88	44.49	model
Swin-L	224x224	195.00	34.04	model
Swin-L	384x384	195.20	100.04	model

ImageNet-1k

Model	Pretrain	resolution	Params(M)	Flops(G)	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	Config	Download
Swin-T	From scratch	224x224	28.29	4.36	81.18	95.61	config	model | log
Swin-S	From scratch	224x224	49.61	8.52	83.02	96.29	config	model | log
Swin-B	From scratch	224x224	87.77	15.14	83.36	96.44	config	model | log
Swin-S*	From scratch	224x224	49.61	8.52	83.21	96.25	config	model
Swin-B*	From scratch	224x224	87.77	15.14	83.42	96.44	config	model
Swin-B*	From scratch	384x384	87.90	44.49	84.49	96.95	config	model
Swin-B*	ImageNet-21k	224x224	87.77	15.14	85.16	97.50	config	model
Swin-B*	ImageNet-21k	384x384	87.90	44.49	86.44	98.05	config	model
Swin-L*	ImageNet-21k	224x224	196.53	34.04	86.24	97.88	config	model
Swin-L*	ImageNet-21k	384x384	196.74	100.04	87.25	98.25	config	model

Models with * are converted from the official repo. The config files of these models are only for validation. We don’t ensure these config files’ training accuracy and welcome you to contribute your reproduction results.

CUB-200-2011

Model	Pretrain	resolution	Params(M)	Flops(G)	Top-1 (%)	Config	Download
Swin-L	ImageNet-21k	384x384	195.51	100.04	91.87	config	model | log

Citation

@article{liu2021Swin,
  title={Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows},
  author={Liu, Ze and Lin, Yutong and Cao, Yue and Hu, Han and Wei, Yixuan and Zhang, Zheng and Lin, Stephen and Guo, Baining},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14030},
  year={2021}
}