Deformable Convolutions Demystified

The reader of the post must have a basic understanding of Convolutional Neural Networks. If you are unfamiliar with the topic you can refer to this link and if you want to know more about the convolutional operation which is actually derived from basic image processing, you can read this blogpost as well. Convolutional Neural Networks or CNN's, in short, is one of the main causes of the revival of artificial intelligence research after a very long AI winter. The applications based on them were the first ones which showcased the power of artificial intelligence or deep learning to be precise and revived the faith in the field which was lost after Marvin Minsky pointed out that Perceptron just worked on linearly separable data and failed to work on the simplest non-linear functions such as XOR. Convolutional Neural Networks are very popular in the domain of Computer Vision and almost all state of the art applications such as google images, self-driving cars etc are based on them.