DINO family of models
These days, when you want to finetune a model (whether that be a detector, segmentor or whatever), one of the first things you say is “I wonder how well sticking a decoder after a dino encoder could work”
Dino
Blog Post / Video / Github / Paper
This is where it all started
Dinov2
This went super viral
Dinov3
This is the state of the art