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Learning representations on Grassmann manifolds is popular in quite a few visual recognition tasks. In order to enable deep learning on Grassmann manifolds, this paper proposes a deep network architecture by generalizing the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Zhiwu Huang , Jiqing Wu , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji

Data encoded as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices frequently arise in many areas of computer vision and machine learning. While these matrices form an open subset of the Euclidean space of symmetric matrices, viewing them through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Anoop Cherian , Suvrit Sra

Non-Euclidean constraints are inherent in many kinds of data in computer vision and machine learning, typically as a result of specific invariance requirements that need to be respected during high-level inference. Often, these geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have received wide attention in machine learning due to their intrinsic capacity to encode underlying structural correlation in data. Many successful Riemannian metrics have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Tianyang Xu , Zhiwu Huang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Nicu Sebe

Matrix manifolds, such as manifolds of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and Grassmann manifolds, appear in many applications. Recently, by applying the theory of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces that is a powerful framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Xuan Son Nguyen , Shuo Yang

Deep learning has been extensively utilized for PolSAR image classification. However, most existing methods transform the polarimetric covariance matrix into a real- or complex-valued vector to comply with standard deep learning frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Junfei Shi , Yuke Li , Mengmeng Nie , Fang Liu , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Weisi Lin

Euclidean representation learning methods have achieved promising results in image fusion tasks, which can be attributed to their clear advantages in handling with linear space. However, data collected from a realistic scene usually has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Huan Kang , Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Rui Wang , Chunyang Cheng , Josef Kittler

Covariance matrices have proven highly effective across many scientific fields. Since these matrices lie within the Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) manifold - a Riemannian space with intrinsic non-Euclidean geometry, the primary challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Wang , Shaocheng Jin , Ziheng Chen , Xiaoqing Luo , Xiao-Jun Wu

We explore the use of tools from Riemannian geometry for the analysis of symmetric positive definite matrices (SPD). An SPD matrix is a versatile data representation that is commonly used in chemical engineering (e.g.,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-24 Alexander Smith , Benjamin Laubach , Ivan Castillo , Victor M. Zavala

Riemannian symmetric spaces (RSS) such as hyperbolic spaces and symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds have become popular spaces for representation learning. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for building discriminative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-14 Xuan Son Nguyen , Aymeric Histace , Nistor Grozavu

Implementations of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix-based neural networks for neural decoding remain fragmented across research codebases and Python packages. Existing implementations often employ ad hoc handling of manifold…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Bruno Aristimunha , Ce Ju , Antoine Collas , Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Bertrand Thirion , Sylvain Chevallier , Reinmar Kobler

Regressing rotations on SO(3) manifold using deep neural networks is an important yet unsolved problem. The gap between the Euclidean network output space and the non-Euclidean SO(3) manifold imposes a severe challenge for neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jiayi Chen , Yingda Yin , Tolga Birdal , Baoquan Chen , Leonidas Guibas , He Wang

In the domain of pattern recognition, using the SPD (Symmetric Positive Definite) matrices to represent data and taking the metrics of resulting Riemannian manifold into account have been widely used for the task of image set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kai-Xuan Chen , Xiao-Jun Wu

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction. This has led to the development of numerous algorithms of varying degrees of complexity that aim to recover man…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-03 Dominique Perraul-Joncas , Marina Meila

Recent works have demonstrated promising performances of neural networks on hyperbolic spaces and symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds. These spaces belong to a family of Riemannian manifolds referred to as symmetric spaces of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Xuan Son Nguyen , Shuo Yang , Aymeric Histace

Deep learning is an effective end-to-end method for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification, but it lacks the guidance of related mathematical principle and is essentially a black-box model. In addition, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junfei Shi , Mengmeng Nie , Weisi Lin , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Rui Wang

Manifold-valued measurements exist in numerous applications within computer vision and machine learning. Recent studies have extended Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to manifolds, and concomitantly, normalization techniques have also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Yunmei Liu , Nicu Sebe

This paper introduces an extension of the backpropagation algorithm that enables us to have layers with constrained weights in a deep network. In particular, we make use of the Riemannian geometry and optimization techniques on matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mehrtash Harandi , Basura Fernando

In a number of disciplines, the data (e.g., graphs, manifolds) to be analyzed are non-Euclidean in nature. Geometric deep learning corresponds to techniques that generalize deep neural network models to such non-Euclidean spaces. Several…