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Video Vision Transformer

A Video Vision Transformer is a deep learning architecture that applies transformer self-attention mechanisms directly to video data for computer vision tasks such as video classification and action recognition. Extending the design of standard Vision Transformers from static images to temporal sequences, it divides input video clips into spatio-temporal tokens or patches and processes them through layers of self-attention to capture complex patterns across both space and time. Because video inputs produce long sequences of tokens that increase computational demand, these architectures frequently incorporate factorized attention mechanisms to separate spatial and temporal operations, allowing efficient training and scaling while serving as a pure-transformer alternative to traditional 3D convolutional neural networks.

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ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer

ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer

Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lučić, Cordelia Schmid

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Introduces ViViT, an efficient pure-transformer framework for video classification that factorizes spatio-temporal dimensions and leverages pretrained image models to surpass standard 3D convolutional networks across major benchmarks.

We present pure-transformer based models for video classification, drawing upon the recent success of such models in image classification. Our model extracts spatio-temporal 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. To facilitate further research, we release code at this https URL

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2026-09-12