I understand that you are trying to create a Vision Transformer(ViT) Model which takes multiple images as input and generates a sequence.
Creating a Vision Transformer (ViT) model that receives multiple images as input in MATLAB involves adapting the ViT architecture to handle sequences of images. The original ViT architecture is designed for single-image classification tasks. To modify it for sequential multi-image input, you would treat each image as a token in the sequence and process these tokens in a way similar to how transformers process sequential data in natural language processing (NLP).
Here is a conceptual outline of how you could approach this:
Step 1: Preprocessing:
- Resize all images to a fixed size.
- Flatten each image into a 1D vector or use patches as tokens, as done in ViT.
- Optionally, add positional encoding to retain the order of the images.
Step 2: Transformer Encoder:
- Use a series of transformer encoder layers to process the sequence of image tokens.
- Each transformer encoder layer would include multi-head self-attention and feedforward neural networks.
Step 3: Sequence Decoder:
- After processing the images through the transformer encoder, you need to decode the output into a sequence.
- You can use an RNN, LSTM, or another transformer decoder to generate the output sequence.
Step 4: Output Layer:
- The output layer would produce the final sequence, which could be a series of classification layers, one for each position in the output sequence.
In MATLAB, you can use Deep Learning Toolbox to create custom layers and models. Currently MATLAB does support a pre-defined ViT. However this scenario would require you to implement the transformer layers manually. You can follow this documentation for steps on how to define custom Deep Learning Layers:
For additional info on pre-defined Deep Learning Layers in MATLAB you can refer to the following link:
I hope this resolves your query.
With regards,
Debraj.