Swin Transformer

By Ze Liu*, Yutong Lin*, Yue Cao*, Han Hu*, Yixuan Wei, Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin and Baining Guo.

This repo is the official implementation of "Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows". It currently includes code and models for the following tasks:

Image Classification: Included in this repo. See get_started.md for a quick start.

Object Detection and Instance Segmentation: See Swin Transformer for Object Detection.

Semantic Segmentation: See Swin Transformer for Semantic Segmentation.

Self-Supervised Learning: See Transformer-SSL.

Video Action Recognition: See Video Swin Transformer.

Semi-Supervised Object Detection: See Soft Teacher.

Updates

10/12/2021

News: Swin Transformer received ICCV 2021 best paper award (Marr Prize).

08/09/2021

1. Soft Teacher will appear at ICCV2021. The code will be released at GitHub Repo. Soft Teacher is an end-to-end semi-supervisd object detection method, achieving a new record on the COCO test-dev: 61.3 box AP and 53.0 mask AP.

07/03/2021

1. Add Swin MLP, which is an adaption of Swin Transformer by replacing all multi-head self-attention (MHSA) blocks by MLP layers (more precisely it is a group linear layer). The shifted window configuration can also significantly improve the performance of vanilla MLP architectures.

06/25/2021

1. Video Swin Transformer is released at Video-Swin-Transformer. Video Swin Transformer achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on a broad range of video recognition benchmarks, including action recognition (84.9 top-1 accuracy on Kinetics-400 and 86.1 top-1 accuracy on Kinetics-600 with ~20x less pre-training data and ~3x smaller model size) and temporal modeling (69.6 top-1 accuracy on Something-Something v2).

05/12/2021

1. Used as a backbone for Self-Supervised Learning: Transformer-SSL

Using Swin-Transformer as the backbone for self-supervised learning enables us to evaluate the transferring performance of the learnt representations on down-stream tasks, which is missing in previous works due to the use of ViT/DeiT, which has not been well tamed for down-stream tasks.

04/12/2021

Initial commits:

1. Pretrained models on ImageNet-1K (Swin-T-IN1K, Swin-S-IN1K, Swin-B-IN1K) and ImageNet-22K (Swin-B-IN22K, Swin-L-IN22K) are provided.
2. The supported code and models for ImageNet-1K image classification, COCO object detection and ADE20K semantic segmentation are provided.
3. The cuda kernel implementation for the local relation layer is provided in branch LR-Net.

Introduction

Swin Transformer (the name Swin stands for Shifted window) is initially described in arxiv, 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.

Main Results on ImageNet with Pretrained Models

ImageNet-1K and ImageNet-22K Pretrained Models

name	pretrain	resolution	acc@1	acc@5	#params	FLOPs	FPS	22K model	1K model
Swin-T	ImageNet-1K	224x224	81.2	95.5	28M	4.5G	755	-	github/baidu/config
Swin-S	ImageNet-1K	224x224	83.2	96.2	50M	8.7G	437	-	github/baidu/config
Swin-B	ImageNet-1K	224x224	83.5	96.5	88M	15.4G	278	-	github/baidu/config
Swin-B	ImageNet-1K	384x384	84.5	97.0	88M	47.1G	85	-	github/baidu/test-config
Swin-B	ImageNet-22K	224x224	85.2	97.5	88M	15.4G	278	github/baidu	github/baidu/test-config
Swin-B	ImageNet-22K	384x384	86.4	98.0	88M	47.1G	85	github/baidu	github/baidu/test-config
Swin-L	ImageNet-22K	224x224	86.3	97.9	197M	34.5G	141	github/baidu	github/baidu/test-config
Swin-L	ImageNet-22K	384x384	87.3	98.2	197M	103.9G	42	github/baidu	github/baidu/test-config

ImageNet-1K Pretrained Swin MLP Models

name	pretrain	resolution	acc@1	acc@5	#params	FLOPs	FPS	1K model
Mixer-B/16	ImageNet-1K	224x224	76.4	-	59M	12.7G	-	official repo
ResMLP-S24	ImageNet-1K	224x224	79.4	-	30M	6.0G	715	timm
ResMLP-B24	ImageNet-1K	224x224	81.0	-	116M	23.0G	231	timm
Swin-T/C24	ImageNet-1K	256x256	81.6	95.7	28M	5.9G	563	github/baidu/config
SwinMLP-T/C24	ImageNet-1K	256x256	79.4	94.6	20M	4.0G	807	github/baidu/config
SwinMLP-T/C12	ImageNet-1K	256x256	79.6	94.7	21M	4.0G	792	github/baidu/config
SwinMLP-T/C6	ImageNet-1K	256x256	79.7	94.9	23M	4.0G	766	github/baidu/config
SwinMLP-B	ImageNet-1K	224x224	81.3	95.3	61M	10.4G	409	github/baidu/config

Note: access code for baidu is swin. C24 means each head has 24 channels.

Main Results on Downstream Tasks

COCO Object Detection (2017 val)

Backbone	Method	pretrain	Lr Schd	box mAP	mask mAP	#params	FLOPs
Swin-T	Mask R-CNN	ImageNet-1K	3x	46.0	41.6	48M	267G
Swin-S	Mask R-CNN	ImageNet-1K	3x	48.5	43.3	69M	359G
Swin-T	Cascade Mask R-CNN	ImageNet-1K	3x	50.4	43.7	86M	745G
Swin-S	Cascade Mask R-CNN	ImageNet-1K	3x	51.9	45.0	107M	838G
Swin-B	Cascade Mask R-CNN	ImageNet-1K	3x	51.9	45.0	145M	982G
Swin-T	RepPoints V2	ImageNet-1K	3x	50.0	-	45M	283G
Swin-T	Mask RepPoints V2	ImageNet-1K	3x	50.3	43.6	47M	292G
Swin-B	HTC++	ImageNet-22K	6x	56.4	49.1	160M	1043G
Swin-L	HTC++	ImageNet-22K	3x	57.1	49.5	284M	1470G
Swin-L	HTC++*	ImageNet-22K	3x	58.0	50.4	284M	-

Note: ^* indicates multi-scale testing.

ADE20K Semantic Segmentation (val)

Backbone	Method	pretrain	Crop Size	Lr Schd	mIoU	mIoU (ms+flip)	#params	FLOPs
Swin-T	UPerNet	ImageNet-1K	512x512	160K	44.51	45.81	60M	945G
Swin-S	UperNet	ImageNet-1K	512x512	160K	47.64	49.47	81M	1038G
Swin-B	UperNet	ImageNet-1K	512x512	160K	48.13	49.72	121M	1188G
Swin-B	UPerNet	ImageNet-22K	640x640	160K	50.04	51.66	121M	1841G
Swin-L	UperNet	ImageNet-22K	640x640	160K	52.05	53.53	234M	3230G

Citing Swin Transformer

@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={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year={2021}
}

Getting Started

• For Image Classification, please see get_started.md for detailed instructions.
• For Object Detection and Instance Segmentation, please see Swin Transformer for Object Detection.
• For Semantic Segmentation, please see Swin Transformer for Semantic Segmentation.
• For Self-Supervised Learning, please see Transformer-SSL.
• For Video Recognition, please see Video Swin Transformer.

Third-party Usage and Experiments

In this pargraph, we cross link third-party repositories which use Swin and report results. You can let us know by raising an issue

(Note please report accuracy numbers and provide trained models in your new repository to facilitate others to get sense of correctness and model behavior)

[08/29/2021] Swin Transformer for Image Restoration: SwinIR

[08/12/2021] Swin Transformer for person reID: https://github.com/layumi/Person_reID_baseline_pytorch

[06/29/2021] Swin-Transformer in PaddleClas and inference based on whl package: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleClas

[04/14/2021] Swin for RetinaNet in Detectron: https://github.com/xiaohu2015/SwinT_detectron2.

[04/16/2021] Included in a famous model zoo: https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models.

[04/20/2021] Swin-Transformer classifier inference using TorchServe: https://github.com/kamalkraj/Swin-Transformer-Serve

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