Spatial-NetVLAD An encoding layer that can improve CNN performance on Image classification tasks. Architecture Performance comparisons A Large Scale Fish Dataset Pre-trained CNN Pooling/Encoding layer Accuracy MoblieNet Avg-pooling 93.3% MoblieNet NetVLAD 95.7% MoblieNet Spatial-NetVLAD 96.7% Caltech101 Dataset Pre-trained CNN Pooling/Encoding layer Accuracy Vgg16 Avg-pooling 78.3% Vgg16 NetVLAD 79.7% Vgg16 Spatial-NetVLAD 86.9% Reference works Madhan Chandrasekharan ,"Fish Classification-Transfer Learning Tensorflow" on Kaggle, 2021 crlz182 , "Netvlad-Keras" on Github, 2019 Yann Henon ,"keras-spp" on Github, 2017 Contact Email: jerming0515@gmail.com
