Split-Merge Pooling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07742v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:20:30 GMT
• Title: Split-Merge Pooling
• Authors: Omid Hosseini Jafari, Carsten Rother
• Abstract summary: Split-Merge pooling is introduced to preserve spatial information without subsampling. We evaluate our approach for dense semantic segmentation of large image sizes taken from the Cityscapes and GTA-5 datasets.
• Score: 36.2980225204665
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: There are a variety of approaches to obtain a vast receptive field with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as pooling or striding convolutions. Most of these approaches were initially designed for image classification and later adapted to dense prediction tasks, such as semantic segmentation. However, the major drawback of this adaptation is the loss of spatial information. Even the popular dilated convolution approach, which in theory is able to operate with full spatial resolution, needs to subsample features for large image sizes in order to make the training and inference tractable. In this work, we introduce Split-Merge pooling to fully preserve the spatial information without any subsampling. By applying Split-Merge pooling to deep networks, we achieve, at the same time, a very large receptive field. We evaluate our approach for dense semantic segmentation of large image sizes taken from the Cityscapes and GTA-5 datasets. We demonstrate that by replacing max-pooling and striding convolutions with our split-merge pooling, we are able to improve the accuracy of different variations of ResNet significantly.

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