# Spatially-Adaptive Filter Units for Deep Neural Networks

Source: [Spatially-Adaptive Filter Units for Deep Neural Networks](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa64231e209131cea02c80>)

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Authors: Domen Tabernik, Matej Kristan, Ale\\v{s} Leonardis

Published: 2017-11-30T15:49:13.000Z

## Abstract

Classical deep convolutional networks increase receptive field size by either gradual resolution reduction or application of hand-crafted dilated convolutions to prevent increase in the number of parameters. In this paper we propose a novel displaced aggregation unit (DAU) that does not require hand-crafting. In contrast to classical filters with units (pixels) placed on a fixed regular grid, the displacement of the DAUs are learned, which enables filters to spatially-adapt their receptive field to a given problem. We extensively demonstrate the strength of DAUs on a classification and semantic segmentation tasks. Compared to ConvNets with regular filter, ConvNets with DAUs achieve comparable performance at faster convergence and up to 3-times reduction in parameters. Furthermore, DAUs allow us to study deep networks from novel perspectives. We study spatial distributions of DAU filters and analyze the number of parameters allocated for spatial coverage in a filter.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11473>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.11473.pdf>)