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What is: Deactivable Skip Connection?

SourceCross-modal Deep Face Normals with Deactivable Skip Connections
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

A Deactivable Skip Connection is a type of skip connection which, instead of concatenating the encoder features (red) and decoder features (blue), as with standard skip connections, it instead fuses the encoder features with part of the decoder features (light blue), to be able to deactivate this operation when needed.