Validation data is similar to test data?

[mayurmallya]

Hi Dr. Xing,

Thank you for sharing the codes for this project.

I would like to check about the validation data used during the training. In the train function (line 42) I see the test_loader and the test_loader_patches are passed as arguments and one of the two test loaders is used for validating the model (line 288) and saving the best model. For testing the model (line 74), the test_loader is used.

I was wondering if it is okay to validate the model on the smaller resolutions of the test data from the test_loader_patches. I might be mistaken, but please share your thoughts on this.

Thank you.