A Survey of Applications of Vision Transformer and Its Variants

The Transformer architecture, renowned for its efficacy in natural language processing, encounters unique hurdles when applied to computer vision. In response, the Vision Transformer (ViT) emerges as a successful adaptation for image classification tasks. While ViT exhibits tremendous potential in revolutionizing computer vision, addressing its inherent challenges and limitations stands as a critical endeavor. This comprehensive survey meticulously scrutinizes the drawbacks associated with ViT, proposing bespoke adaptations tailored to specific applications while showcasing their remarkable performance across diverse visual tasks. Moreover, it delves into the evolution of ViT adaptations across various visual domains, elucidating four promising directions for future research and development in this dynamic field.