❓ What is Multi-Scale Training (MST)?

πŸ’‘ MTS helps your model to be robust to image sizes, an get better performance

β€’ Training on small images is faster

β€’ Training on large images increases your model performance

How is MST done?
Every N (e.g., 10) epochs, we randomly chooses a new image dimension from a range of sizes [640, 768, 800], and train our model

This means the same network becomes better at predicting at different resolutions.
β€’ In MMDetetection, models trained using multi-scale technique have β€œ_mstrain_” in their name.

β€’ Example: vfnet_r50_fpn_mstrain_2x_coco
πŸ’‘ MTS is a bit different than Progressive Resizing Training (PRT)

β€’ In PRT, we first train our model using a small image size (e.g. 640) for X epochs,

β€’ Then, we gradually increase the size: 640 -> 768 -> 800
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