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Latent Code-Based Fusion: A Volterra Neural Network Approach

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-04-13 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a deep structure encoder using the recently introduced Volterra Neural Networks (VNNs) to seek a latent representation of multi-modal data whose features are jointly captured by a union of subspaces. The so-called self-representation embedding of the latent codes leads to a simplified fusion which is driven by a similarly constructed decoding. The Volterra Filter architecture achieved reduction in parameter complexity is primarily due to controlled non-linearities being introduced by the higher-order convolutions in contrast to generalized activation functions. Experimental results on two different datasets have shown a significant improvement in the clustering performance for VNNs auto-encoder over conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) auto-encoder. In addition, we also show that the proposed approach demonstrates a much-improved sample complexity over CNN-based auto-encoder with a superb robust classification performance.

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@article{arxiv.2104.04829,
  title  = {Latent Code-Based Fusion: A Volterra Neural Network Approach},
  author = {Sally Ghanem and Siddharth Roheda and Hamid Krim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04829},
  year   = {2021}
}
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