Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/emulating-the-attention-mechanism-in-transformer-models-with-a-fully-convolutional-network/
The past decade has seen a remarkable surge in the adoption of deep learning techniques for computer vision (CV) tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the cornerstone of this revolution, exhibiting exceptional performance and enabling significant advancements in visual perception. By employing localized filters and hierarchical architectures, CNNs have proven adept at capturing spatial…