Resnet-18 as backbone in Faster R-CNN
I code with pytorch and I want to use resnet-18 as backbone of Faster R-RCNN. When I print structure of resnet18, this is the output:

&gt;&gt;import torch
&gt;&gt;import torchvision
&gt;&gt;import numpy as np
&gt;&gt;import torchvision.models as models

&gt;&gt;resnet18 = models.resnet18(pretrained=False)
&gt;&gt;print(resnet18)


ResNet(
  (conv1): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(7, 7), stride=(2, 2), padding=(3, 3), bias=False)
  (bn1): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
  (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
  (maxpool): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
  (layer1): Sequential(
    (0): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
    )
    (1): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
    )
  )
  (layer2): Sequential(
    (0): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (downsample): Sequential(
        (0): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(1, 1), stride=(2, 2), bias=False)
        (1): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      )
    )
    (1): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
    )
  )
  (layer3): Sequential(
    (0): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (downsample): Sequential(
        (0): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(1, 1), stride=(2, 2), bias=False)
        (1): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      )
    )
    (1): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
    )
  )
  (layer4): Sequential(
    (0): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (downsample): Sequential(
        (0): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(1, 1), stride=(2, 2), bias=False)
        (1): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      )
    )
    (1): BasicBlock(
      (conv1): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn1): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
      (relu): ReLU(inplace=True)
      (conv2): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1), bias=False)
      (bn2): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
    )
  )
  (avgpool): AdaptiveAvgPool2d(output_size=(1, 1))
  (fc): Linear(in_features=512, out_features=1000, bias=True)
)


My question is, until which layer it is feature extractor?  is AdaptiveAvgPool2d should be part of backbone of Faster R-CNN?

In this toturial, it is shown how to train a Mask R-CNN with an arbitrary backbone, I want to do the same thing with Faster R-CNN and train a Faster R-CNN with resnet-18 but until which layer should be part of feature extractor is confusing for me.

I know how to use resnet+Feature Pyramid Network as backbone, My question is about resent. 

If we want to use output of Adaptive Average Pooling we use this code for different Resnets:

# backbone
        if backbone_name == 'resnet_18':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet18(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 512
        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_34':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet34(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 512
        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_50':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet50(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 2048
        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_101':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet101(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 2048
        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_152':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet152(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 2048
        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_50_modified_stride_1':
            resnet_net = resnet50(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 2048
        elif backbone_name == 'resnext101_32x8d':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnext101_32x8d(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-1]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)
            backbone.out_channels = 2048


If we want to use convolution feature map we use this code:

 # backbone
        if backbone_name == 'resnet_18':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet18(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_34':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet34(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_50':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet50(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_101':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet101(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_152':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnet152(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnet_50_modified_stride_1':
            resnet_net = resnet50(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

        elif backbone_name == 'resnext101_32x8d':
            resnet_net = torchvision.models.resnext101_32x8d(pretrained=True)
            modules = list(resnet_net.children())[:-2]
            backbone = nn.Sequential(*modules)

