[mat_kelcey]

no, it won't directly. conv nets handle translation invariance but not scale invariance. having said that there's no reason you can't use aggressive data augmentation for this (resizing before patch sampling). i wonder how much the semi supervised approach might help too; if you've labelled _only_ small bees in a subset of the data, trained a model, applied to a larger dataset & retrained there will be a small amount of detections (that are true positives) to bees that are slightly larger (and smaller) than the ones you labelled.... (maybe?)

[amelius]

Ok. Why isn't there a kind of network function that works with scaling, like convolution works with translation?

[alexcnwy]

I think a CNN can handle scale invariance e.g. With max pooling