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Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition (VGG)

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Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition (VGG) released on arXiv

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Standardized the design of stacking small 3x3 convolutions deep

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1556

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