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Pooling

CNNs · Level 2 of 5

Pooling

Aggregating local groups of activations into fewer values.

Pooling reduces spatial resolution and can discard precise location information.

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A small image patch is replaced by its maximum response.

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Pooling. Aggregating local groups of activations into fewer values. Pooling reduces spatial resolution and can discard precise location information. For example: A small image patch is replaced by its maximum response.

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