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My thoughts exactly - not to mention the fact that [1] was based on the earlier Spatial Pyramid work of Grauman & Darrell.

The language in the article is a bit zealous - Microsoft did well, but didn't "win" any challenge in Imagenet. VGG and Google seem to be the ones people are really watching / emulating.

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While Google's this year's submission was good, it didn't seem to contain any particularly inspiring ideas, as it was mostly just a collection of small improvements on previous ideas. Personally, SPP-nets seem to be the most interesting idea to come out of this year's competition.

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