Question 12
Regarding the U-Net architecture, which is widely used for tasks like medical image segmentation and can be adapted for depth estimation:
It features a symmetric architecture consisting of a contracting path (encoder) and an expansive path (decoder).
Skip connections concatenate high-resolution features from the contracting path directly to the up sampled features in the expansive path.
The expansive path uses transposed convolutions (or up-convolutions) to increase the spatial resolution of the feature maps.
It relies on Global Average Pooling at every layer to ensure that spatial information is discarded in favor of global context.