# DPT ## Overview The DPT model was proposed in [Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13413) by René Ranftl, Alexey Bochkovskiy, Vladlen Koltun. DPT is a model that leverages the [Vision Transformer (ViT)](vit) as backbone for dense prediction tasks like semantic segmentation and depth estimation. The abstract from the paper is the following: *We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into image-like representations at various resolutions and progressively combine them into full-resolution predictions using a convolutional decoder. The transformer backbone processes representations at a constant and relatively high resolution and has a global receptive field at every stage. These properties allow the dense vision transformer to provide finer-grained and more globally coherent predictions when compared to fully-convolutional networks. Our experiments show that this architecture yields substantial improvements on dense prediction tasks, especially when a large amount of training data is available. For monocular depth estimation, we observe an improvement of up to 28% in relative performance when compared to a state-of-the-art fully-convolutional network. When applied to semantic segmentation, dense vision transformers set a new state of the art on ADE20K with 49.02% mIoU. We further show that the architecture can be fine-tuned on smaller datasets such as NYUv2, KITTI, and Pascal Context where it also sets the new state of the art.* DPT architecture. Taken from the original paper. This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/isl-org/DPT). ## Resources A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with DPT. - Demo notebooks for [`DPTForDepthEstimation`] can be found [here](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/DPT). - [Semantic segmentation task guide](../tasks/semantic_segmentation) - [Monocular depth estimation task guide](../tasks/monocular_depth_estimation) If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource. ## DPTConfig [[autodoc]] DPTConfig ## DPTFeatureExtractor [[autodoc]] DPTFeatureExtractor - __call__ - post_process_semantic_segmentation ## DPTImageProcessor [[autodoc]] DPTImageProcessor - preprocess - post_process_semantic_segmentation ## DPTModel [[autodoc]] DPTModel - forward ## DPTForDepthEstimation [[autodoc]] DPTForDepthEstimation - forward ## DPTForSemanticSegmentation [[autodoc]] DPTForSemanticSegmentation - forward