Body: <p>Consider the following excerpt from the abstract of the research paper titled <a href="https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Hu_Squeeze-and-Excitation_Networks_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Squeeze-and-Excitation networks</a> by <em>Jie Hu et al</em>.</p>
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  <p>Convolutional neural networks are built upon the convolution operation, which extracts informative features by fusing spatial and channel-wise information together within local receptive fields. In order to boost the representational power of a network, several recent approaches have shown the benefit of enhancing <strong>spatial encoding</strong>.</p>
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  <p>The authors used the term &quot;spatial encoding&quot; and the excerpt implies that enhancing spatial encoding has the benefit of increasing the representational power of a convolutional neural network.</p>
  <p>What is meant by the term &quot;spatial encoding&quot; in this context related to the convolutional neural networks?</p>
  
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Title: What is meant by "spatial encoding" in the context of convolutional neural networks?
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ThreadText: # What is meant by "spatial encoding" in the context of convolutional neural networks?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-10-07)
  
  Consider the following excerpt from the abstract of the research paper titled [Squeeze-and-Excitation networks](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Hu_Squeeze-and-Excitation_Networks_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf) by *Jie Hu et al*.
  
  > Convolutional neural networks are built upon the convolution operation, which extracts informative features by fusing spatial and channel-wise information together within local receptive fields. In order to boost the representational power of a network, several recent approaches have shown the benefit of enhancing **spatial encoding**.
  
  The authors used the term "spatial encoding" and the excerpt implies that enhancing spatial encoding has the benefit of increasing the representational power of a convolutional neural network.
  
  What is meant by the term "spatial encoding" in this context related to the convolutional neural networks?
  
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