# An Empirical Study of Spatial Attention Mechanisms in Deep Networks ## Introduction [ALGORITHM] ```latex @article{zhu2019empirical, title={An Empirical Study of Spatial Attention Mechanisms in Deep Networks}, author={Zhu, Xizhou and Cheng, Dazhi and Zhang, Zheng and Lin, Stephen and Dai, Jifeng}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05873}, year={2019} } ``` ## Results and Models | Backbone | Attention Component | DCN | Lr schd | Mem (GB) | Inf time (fps) | box AP | Config | Download | |:---------:|:-------------------:|:----:|:-------:|:--------:|:--------------:|:------:|:------:|:--------:| | R-50 | 1111 | N | 1x | 8.0 | 13.8 | 40.0 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/tree/master/configs/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_1x_coco.py) | [model](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_1x_coco_20200130-403cccba.pth) | [log](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_1x_coco_20200130_210344.log.json) | | R-50 | 0010 | N | 1x | 4.2 | 18.4 | 39.1 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/tree/master/configs/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_1x_coco.py) | [model](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_1x_coco_20200130-7cb0c14d.pth) | [log](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_1x_coco_20200130_210125.log.json) | | R-50 | 1111 | Y | 1x | 8.0 | 12.7 | 42.1 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/tree/master/configs/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_dcn_1x_coco.py) | [model](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_dcn_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_dcn_1x_coco_20200130-8b2523a6.pth) | [log](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_dcn_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_1111_dcn_1x_coco_20200130_204442.log.json) | | R-50 | 0010 | Y | 1x | 4.2 | 17.1 | 42.0 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/tree/master/configs/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_dcn_1x_coco.py) | [model](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_dcn_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_dcn_1x_coco_20200130-1a2e831d.pth) | [log](http://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v2.0/empirical_attention/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_dcn_1x_coco/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_attention_0010_dcn_1x_coco_20200130_210410.log.json) |