About the ImageNet pretrained checkpoints. about partialconv

[liuguilin1225]

If you will train (fine-tune) the resnet backbone during training your scene parsing network instead of fixing it, you can directly using the existing model pretrained with zero padding. Just change your nn.Conv2d to PartialConv2d. Their parameter numbers are the exactly same.
As long as you fine-tune it enough, it should not matter too much. This is also reflected in Kaiming's recent paper: Rethink ImageNet Pre-training. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08883
The segmentation experiments in the paper are also both using the pretrained weights with zero padding; but during the fine-tuning, one is using nn.Conv2d while the other is using PartialConv2d.
I will upload the pretrained weights of partial conv powered models soon.

[PkuRainBow]

@liuguilin1225 Thanks. I will try it latter.

[liuguilin1225]

@PkuRainBow The pretrained weights for VGG and ResNet networks with partial convolution based padding can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t6flbuoipyzqid8/AACJ8rtrF6V5b9348aG5PIhia?dl=0