thanks. I got it. in the train_val.prototxt file of VGG16, there is image_crop: 224. does it mean before being resized to 256, the input images are cropped first?
if I resize all of images first manually to 224x224x3, so it means this cropping in the tain_val file doesn't have any affects right?
another way to say: I am going to finetune the alexnet, when I remove crop_image:224 I get an error of not compatibility with the model. I want model to see the whole image without cropping. so I resized all of them to 224 to prevent that. now this cropping doesn't change any thing right?