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Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have become popular to encode image information. Accounting for the geometry of the Riemannian manifold of SPD matrices has proven key to the success of many algorithms. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

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

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

We introduce a dynamic multiscale tree (DMT) architecture that learns how to leverage the strengths of different existing classifiers for supervised multi-label image segmentation. Unlike previous works that simply aggregate or cascade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Samya Amiri , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Islem Rekik

Convolutional neural networks are ubiquitous in Machine Learning applications for solving a variety of problems. They however can not be used in their native form when the domain of the data is commonly encountered manifolds such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Monami Banerjee , Baba C. Vemuri

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

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

Efforts are underway to study ways via which the power of deep neural networks can be extended to non-standard data types such as structured data (e.g., graphs) or manifold-valued data (e.g., unit vectors or special matrices). Often,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xingjian Zhen , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Nicholas Vogt , Barbara B. Bendlin , Vikas Singh

In this paper, we present new results on the Riemannian geometry of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices. First, based on an existing approximation of the geodesic path, we introduce approximations of the logarithmic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Or Yair , Almog Lahav , Ronen Talmon

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

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

Deep neural networks have become the main work horse for many tasks involving learning from data in a variety of applications in Science and Engineering. Traditionally, the input to these networks lie in a vector space and the operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Jose Bouza , Jonathan Manton , Baba C. Vemuri

Symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices used as feature descriptors in image recognition are usually high dimensional. Traditional manifold learning is only applicable for reducing the dimension of high-dimensional vector-form data. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yangyang Li , Ruqian Lu

Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Azadeh Alavi , Arnold Wiliem , Kun Zhao , Brian C. Lovell , Conrad Sanderson

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 are useful for capturing second-order statistics of visual data. To compare two SPD matrices, several measures are available, such as the affine-invariant Riemannian metric, Jeffreys divergence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Anoop Cherian , Panagiotis Stanitsas , Mehrtash Harandi , Vassilios Morellas , Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

State-space models (SSMs) have become a cornerstone for unraveling brain dynamics, revealing how latent neural states evolve over time and give rise to observed signals. By combining the flexibility of deep learning with the principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tingting Dan , Jiaqi Ding , Guorong Wu

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

We study the convergence of gradient flows related to learning deep linear neural networks (where the activation function is the identity map) from data. In this case, the composition of the network layers amounts to simply multiplying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Bubacarr Bah , Holger Rauhut , Ulrich Terstiege , Michael Westdickenberg

Data-driven modeling of human motions is ubiquitous in computer graphics and computer vision applications, such as synthesizing realistic motions or recognizing actions. Recent research has shown that such problems can be approached by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-21 He Wang , Edmond S. L. Ho , Hubert P. H. Shum , Zhanxing Zhu