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ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer

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Arnab, Anurag, Dehghani, Mostafa, Heigold, Georg, Sun, Chen, Lucic, Mario, Schmid, Cordelia·2021·2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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We present pure-transformer based models for video classification, drawing upon the recent success of such models in image classification. Our model extracts spatiotemporal tokens from the input video, which are then encoded by a series of transformer layers. In order to handle the long sequences of tokens encountered in video, we propose several, efficient variants of our model which factorise the spatial- and temporal-dimensions of the input. Although transformer-based models are known to only be effective when large training datasets are available, we show how we can effectively regularise the model during training and leverage pretrained image models to be able to train on comparatively small datasets. We conduct thorough ablation studies, and achieve state-of-the-art results on multiple video classification benchmarks including Kinetics 400 and 600, Epic Kitchens, Something-Something v2 and Moments in Time, outperforming prior methods based on deep 3D convolutional networks.

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Authors
Arnab, A., Dehghani, M., Heigold, G., Sun, C., Lucic, M., & Schmid, C.
Affiliations
  • Google (United States) (US)
  • Google Research
Venue
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2021-10
Pages
6816-6826
OpenAlex
W3147387781
Cited by
2,767
References
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2026: 412 · 2025: 684 · 2024: 690 · 2023: 611 · 2022: 313 · 2021: 57
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conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
video classification, vision transformer, transfer learning, regularization, limited training data, kinetics, EPIC-KITCHENS, Something-Something V2

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