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What is: Spatially Separable Convolution?

Year2000
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A Spatially Separable Convolution decomposes a convolution into two separate operations. In regular convolution, if we have a 3 x 3 kernel then we directly convolve this with the image. We can divide a 3 x 3 kernel into a 3 x 1 kernel and a 1 x 3 kernel. Then, in spatially separable convolution, we first convolve the 3 x 1 kernel then the 1 x 3 kernel. This requires 6 instead of 9 parameters compared to regular convolution, and so it is more parameter efficient (additionally less matrix multiplications are required).

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