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Global Convolutional Network

6 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Chao Peng et al. in Large Kernel Matters -- Improve Semantic Segmentation by Global Convolutional Network

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A Global Convolutional Network, or GCN, is a semantic segmentation building block that utilizes a large kernel to help perform classification and localization tasks simultaneously. It can be used in a FCN-like structure, where the GCN is used to generate semantic score maps. Instead of directly using larger kernels or global convolution, the GCN module employs a combination of 1 ×k + k ×1 and k ×1 + 1 ×k convolutions, which enables dense connections within a large k×k region in the feature map

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

12 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Semantic Segmentation4
Segmentation3
BIG-bench Machine Learning1
Image Segmentation1
Image Super-Resolution1
Instance Segmentation1
Object Detection1
Open-Ended Question Answering1
Organ Segmentation1
Pansharpening1
Super-Resolution1
object-detection1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Global Convolutional Network: 2017 to 2021, peak 2 2 0 2017: 2 papers 2017 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (6 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

Semantic Segmentation Modules

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