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# 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.*

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/dpt_architecture.jpg"
alt="drawing" width="600"/>

<small> DPT architecture. Taken from the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13413" target="_blank">original paper</a>. </small>

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