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Object Detection with Transformers: A Review
Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks by reframing detection as a set prediction problem. Consequently, eliminating the need for proposal generation and post-processing steps. Initially, despite competitive performance, DETR suffered from slow training convergence and ineffective detection of smaller objects. However, numerous improvements are proposed to address these issues, leading to substantial improvements in DETR and enabling it to exhibit state-of-the-art performance. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to provide a comprehensive review of 21 recently proposed advancements in the original DETR model. We dive into both the foundational modules of DETR and its recent enhancements, such as modifications to the backbone structure, query design strategies, and refinements to attention mechanisms. Moreover, we conduct a comparative analysis across various detection transformers, evaluating their performance and network architectures. We hope that this study will ignite further interest among researchers in addressing the existing challenges and exploring the application of transformers in the object detection domain. Readers interested in the ongoing developments in detection transformers can refer to our website at: https://github.com/mindgarage-shan/trans_object_detection_survey
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