"What if we only used 3×3 convolutions throughout the entire network?"
This simple yet powerful idea led to VGGNet's elegant and effective architecture.
Key Design Principles:
• Use only 3×3 convolutional filters
• Stack many layers to go deeper
• Double filters after each pooling
• Keep architecture extremely uniform
• Simple is better than complex
The Result:
2nd place in ILSVRC 2014 classification, but became more influential than the winner due to its simplicity and effectiveness