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Measuring the displacement between location estimates derived from different camera views can help enforce the local consistency vital to navigation.Ī significant hurdle in the computer vision case, however, is that single pixels along a ray contain little information. In both cases, Transformers can exploit this structure. In the same way, pixels further down an image column often - though not always - correspond to points closer to the camera along the associated ray.

Many languages share a common structure, which means that words often - though not always - occur in similar places in source texts and their translations. The analogy between our task and the sequence-to-sequence NLP tasks is quite precise. That’s because, in a large 2-D image - unlike a short, 1-D sequence of words - there are so many candidates for attention: any given pixel might contain information that alters how other pixels should be interpreted.īy constraining our use of Transformers to individual columns of pixels and individual rays, we avoid this combinatorial explosion and can efficiently train on existing, smaller datasets. In general, however, Transformers require much more data for computer vision applications than for NLP applications. So, for instance, if the input is a sentence in Hindi, and the output is a sentence in Spanish, the attention mechanism determines which words of the input are most relevant when determining each word of the output.

The key to Transformers’ success is their use of attention mechanisms, which determine which elements of the input matter most to which elements of the output. Deep learning to produce invariant representations, estimations of sensor reliability, and efficient map representations all contribute to Astro’s superior spatial intelligence.
