#computer-vision
3 articles
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·Inference & Serving·★ MEMBER·PAPER·10 min read
Paper Explained: FreeFlow — Optical Flow with a Hierarchical Transformer and No Flow-Specific Parts
FreeFlow drops correlation volumes, warping, and iterative refinement, and reaches the top of Sintel, KITTI-2015, and Spring using only window, shifted-window, and low-resolution global attention. We walk through it from zero.
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·CNNs & Image Recognition·★ MEMBER·PAPER·9 min read
Object Detection from Scratch (from YOLO to DETR)
A from-zero guide to object detection: the classic toolkit of two-stage detectors, anchors, and NMS — and how DETR reframed the whole problem to make all of it unnecessary. Primary source: the DETR paper.
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·CNNs & Image Recognition·★ MEMBER·PAPER·8 min read
The CNN Family Tree — From AlexNet to ResNet and EfficientNet
A decade of CNNs told as two campaigns — the race for depth and the race for efficiency. ReLU, residual connections, and compound scaling explained from scratch with metaphors, interactive figures, and code.