AI engineering glossary · Computer vision

What is upsampling?

Upsampling: Increasing the height and width of a feature map or image, by fixed interpolation or by a learned layer. Segmentation, super-resolution and feature pyramids all need it to bring coarse features back to fine resolution.

Level: intermediateTopic: Computer vision

Upsampling: an example

Bilinear upsampling by 2 turns a 16 x 16 mask prediction into a 32 x 32 one.

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Where you learn it

Upsampling is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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