1 干网讨论
Different from the previous salient object detection models which use backbones (e.g. VGG, ResNet, etc.) as their encoders, our newly proposed U2-Net architecture is backbone free. To validate the backbone free design, we conduct ablation studies on replacing the encoder part of our full size U2-Net with different backbones:
VGG16 and ResNet50.
Practically, we adapt the backbones (VGG-16 and ResNet-50) by adding an extra stage after their last convolutional stages to achieve the same receptive fields with our original U2-Net architecture design.
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