Pooling Operations

Generalized Mean Pooling

Generalized Mean Pooling (GeM) computes the generalized mean of each channel in a tensor. Formally:

$$ \textbf{e} = \left[\left(\frac{1}{|\Omega|}\sum_{u\in{\Omega}}x^{p}_{cu}\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}\right]_{c=1,\cdots,C} $$

where $p > 0$ is a parameter. Setting this exponent as $p > 1$ increases the contrast of the pooled feature map and focuses on the salient features of the image. GeM is a generalization of the average pooling commonly used in classification networks ($p = 1$) and of spatial max-pooling layer ($p = \infty$).

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