diff --git a/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_align.py b/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_align.py
index d42353e2b0d..be64bdddd87 100644
--- a/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_align.py
+++ b/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_align.py
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ def ps_roi_align(
             in the batch.
         output_size (int or Tuple[int, int]): the size of the output (in bins or pixels) after the pooling
             is performed, as (height, width).
-        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the input coordinates to
-            the box coordinates. Default: 1.0
+        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the box coordinates to
+            the input coordinates. For example, if your boxes are defined on the scale
+            of a 224x224 image and your input is a 112x112 feature map (resulting from a 0.5x scaling of
+            the original image), you'll want to set this to 0.5. Default: 1.0
         sampling_ratio (int): number of sampling points in the interpolation grid
             used to compute the output value of each pooled output bin. If > 0,
             then exactly ``sampling_ratio x sampling_ratio`` sampling points per bin are used. If
diff --git a/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_pool.py b/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_pool.py
index d0331e557fd..0084c0e0c74 100644
--- a/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_pool.py
+++ b/torchvision/ops/ps_roi_pool.py
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ def ps_roi_pool(
             in the batch.
         output_size (int or Tuple[int, int]): the size of the output (in bins or pixels) after the pooling
             is performed, as (height, width).
-        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the input coordinates to
-            the box coordinates. Default: 1.0
+        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the box coordinates to
+            the input coordinates. For example, if your boxes are defined on the scale
+            of a 224x224 image and your input is a 112x112 feature map (resulting from a 0.5x scaling of
+            the original image), you'll want to set this to 0.5. Default: 1.0
 
     Returns:
         Tensor[K, C / (output_size[0] * output_size[1]), output_size[0], output_size[1]]: The pooled RoIs.
diff --git a/torchvision/ops/roi_align.py b/torchvision/ops/roi_align.py
index ce9fa83e5c4..57494cff1e1 100644
--- a/torchvision/ops/roi_align.py
+++ b/torchvision/ops/roi_align.py
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ def roi_align(
             in the batch.
         output_size (int or Tuple[int, int]): the size of the output (in bins or pixels) after the pooling
             is performed, as (height, width).
-        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the input coordinates to
-            the box coordinates. Default: 1.0
+        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the box coordinates to
+            the input coordinates. For example, if your boxes are defined on the scale
+            of a 224x224 image and your input is a 112x112 feature map (resulting from a 0.5x scaling of
+            the original image), you'll want to set this to 0.5. Default: 1.0
         sampling_ratio (int): number of sampling points in the interpolation grid
             used to compute the output value of each pooled output bin. If > 0,
             then exactly ``sampling_ratio x sampling_ratio`` sampling points per bin are used. If
diff --git a/torchvision/ops/roi_pool.py b/torchvision/ops/roi_pool.py
index 85358f40e64..6ad787af725 100644
--- a/torchvision/ops/roi_pool.py
+++ b/torchvision/ops/roi_pool.py
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ def roi_pool(
             in the batch.
         output_size (int or Tuple[int, int]): the size of the output after the cropping
             is performed, as (height, width)
-        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the input coordinates to
-            the box coordinates. Default: 1.0
+        spatial_scale (float): a scaling factor that maps the box coordinates to
+            the input coordinates. For example, if your boxes are defined on the scale
+            of a 224x224 image and your input is a 112x112 feature map (resulting from a 0.5x scaling of
+            the original image), you'll want to set this to 0.5. Default: 1.0
 
     Returns:
         Tensor[K, C, output_size[0], output_size[1]]: The pooled RoIs.