* We use distributed training with 4 GPUs by default.
* All pytorch-style pretrained backbones on ImageNet are train by ourselves, with the same procedure in the [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01187.pdf).
Our ResNet style backbone are based on ResNetV1c variant, where the 7x7 conv in the input stem is replaced with three 3x3 convs.
* For the consistency across different hardwares, we report the GPU memory as the maximum value of `torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()` for all 4 GPUs with `torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark=False`.
Note that this value is usually less than what `nvidia-smi` shows.
* We report the inference time as the total time of network forwarding and post-processing, excluding the data loading time.
Results are obtained with the script `tools/benchmark.py` which computes the average time on 200 images with `torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark=False`.
* There are two inference modes in this framework.
*`slide` mode: The `test_cfg` will be like `dict(mode='slide', crop_size=(769, 769), stride=(513, 513))`.
In this mode, multiple patches will be cropped from input image, passed into network individually.
The crop size and stride between patches are specified by `crop_size` and `stride`.
The overlapping area will be merged by average
*`whole` mode: The `test_cfg` will be like `dict(mode='whole')`.
In this mode, the whole imaged will be passed into network directly.