Has anybody figured out how to do symmetric padding of an image tensor?
The current pad function can do constant padding, zero-order hold padding (replicate) or reflection padding, but it can’t do symmetric padding. The difference between symmetric and reflection padding is best seen in the tensorflow help:
t = tf.constant([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
paddings = tf.constant([[1, 1,], [2, 2]])
# 'constant_values' is 0.
# rank of 't' is 2.
tf.pad(t, paddings, "CONSTANT")  # [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
                                 #  [0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0],
                                 #  [0, 0, 4, 5, 6, 0, 0],
                                 #  [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

tf.pad(t, paddings, "REFLECT")  # [[6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4],
                                #  [3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1],
                                #  [6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4],
                                #  [3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1]]

tf.pad(t, paddings, "SYMMETRIC")  # [[2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2],
                                  #  [2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2],
                                  #  [5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5],
                                  #  [5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5]]