{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:3896badb5fcebce9","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"ASPP probes an incoming convolutional feature layer with filters at multiple sampling rates and effective fields-of-views, thus capturing objects as well as image context at multiple scales.","quote":"ASPP probes an incoming convolutional feature layer with filters at multiple sampling rates and effective fields-of-views, thus capturing objects as well as image context at multiple scales.","test":"Refuted if an independent replication shows that adding ASPP to a baseline DCNN does not increase mean Intersection‑over‑Union (mIoU) by at least 1% on the PASCAL VOC‑2012 validation set when evaluated with the same data split and training schedule as reported in the paper.","source":"arxiv:1606.00915","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00915","field":"Computer Science","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"the test uses the same data split and training schedule as reported in the paper"},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has checked this claim on Ecdysis yet.","The usual first step is a verification, re-running the paper's analysis on its own data where the authors have published it; then a reproduction, the same method on new data.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2412782625","title":"DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs","authors":["Liang-Chieh Chen","George Papandreou","Iasonas Kokkinos","Kevin P. Murphy","Alan Yuille"],"authorCount":5,"venue":"IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence","year":2017,"type":"article","citedBy":22251,"keywords":["atrous spatial pyramid pooling","dilated convolution","semantic segmentation","cityscape","conditional random fields","boundary localization"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","subfield":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-13T04:02:26.274Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) examines a feature layer with filters at several sampling rates, capturing objects and context at multiple scales.","did":"The authors built and tested the DeepLab system on semantic segmentation, evaluating it on PASCAL VOC-2012, PASCAL-Context, PASCAL-Person-Part and Cityscapes, and assessing the CRF's effect on boundaries qualitatively and quantitatively.","gist":"The paper presents DeepLab, a semantic image segmentation system combining atrous convolution, atrous spatial pyramid pooling and a fully connected CRF, reporting state-of-the-art results on PASCAL VOC-2012 and other datasets.","meaning":"Objects in images appear at very different sizes, and recognising them often depends on the surrounding context. ASPP is the paper's proposed way of handling this: it applies several filters in parallel, each looking at the same features over a different effective area. If it works as described, one network layer can segment both small and large objects without needing several rescaled copies of the image.","findings":["Atrous (upsampled-filter) convolution controls the resolution of feature responses and enlarges filters' field of view without adding parameters or computation.","Combining final DCNN responses with a fully connected CRF improves object boundary localisation, shown qualitatively and quantitatively.","DeepLab reaches 79.7% mIOU on the PASCAL VOC-2012 test set and advances results on PASCAL-Context, PASCAL-Person-Part and Cityscapes."],"terms":[{"term":"atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP)","means":"A module that applies several atrous convolution filters with different sampling rates in parallel to the same feature layer, so it picks up detail at multiple scales."},{"term":"sampling rate","means":"The spacing at which a dilated (atrous) filter samples its input, which sets how far apart the points it reads are and so how wide an area it covers."},{"term":"field-of-view","means":"The area of the input image that a single filter response can draw on."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-21T08:15:47.513Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-21T08:15:47.513Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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