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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

We present a simple and general framework for feature learning from point clouds. The key to the success of CNNs is the convolution operator that is capable of leveraging spatially-local correlation in data represented densely in grids…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yangyan Li , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wei Wu , Xinhan Di , Baoquan Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ephrath , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Transformationally invariant processors constructed by transformed input vectors or operators have been suggested and applied to many applications. In this study, transformationally identical processing based on combining results of all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 ShihChung B. Lo , Matthew T. Freedman , Seong K. Mun

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in computer vision, especially in image classification. However, the way in which information and invariance properties are encoded through in deep CNN architectures is still an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Michael Blot , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

Techniques for feedforward networks (FFNs) and convolutional networks (CNNs) are frequently reused across families, but the relationship between the underlying model classes is rarely made explicit. We introduce a unified node-level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-09 Nicolas Ewen , Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez , Kelly Ramsay

Modern deep neural networks require a tremendous amount of data to train, often needing hundreds or thousands of labeled examples to learn an effective representation. For these networks to work with less data, more structure must be built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved impressive success in computer vision during the past few decades. The image convolution operation helps CNNs to get good performance on image-related tasks. However, the image convolution has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Hengyue Pan , Yixin Chen , Xin Niu , Wenbo Zhou , Dongsheng Li

Geometric deep learning has attracted significant attention in recent years, in part due to the availability of exotic data types for which traditional neural network architectures are not well suited. Our goal in this paper is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Jose J. Bouza , Chun-Hao Yang , David Vaillancourt , Baba C. Vemuri

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), in a few decades, have outperformed the existing state of the art methods in classification context. However, in the way they were formalised, CNNs are bound to operate on euclidean spaces. Indeed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Chloé Martineau , Romain Raveaux , Donatello Conte , Gilles Venturini

We propose the introduction of nonlinear operation into the feature generation process in convolutional neural networks. This nonlinearity can be implemented in various ways. First we discuss the use of nonlinearities in the process of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Gavneet Singh Chadha , Andreas Schwung

In modern computer vision tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable for image classification tasks due to their efficiency and effectiveness. Part of their superiority compared to other architectures, comes from the fact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Vighnesh Birodkar , Hossein Mobahi , Dilip Krishnan , Samy Bengio

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Senthilkumar Kathiresan , Arnav Varma , Omar Magdy , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Deep artificial neural networks have made remarkable progress in different tasks in the field of computer vision. However, the empirical analysis of these models and investigation of their failure cases has received attention recently. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Babak Saleh , Ahmed Elgammal , Jacob Feldman

Although very successfully used in conventional machine learning, convolution based neural network architectures -- believed to be inconsistent in function space -- have been largely ignored in the context of learning solution operators of…

This paper introduces a generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional grid data, such as images, to graph-structured data. We propose a novel spatial convolution utilizing a random walk to uncover the relations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-27 Yotam Hechtlinger , Purvasha Chakravarti , Jining Qin

Convolution has been the core ingredient of modern neural networks, triggering the surge of deep learning in vision. In this work, we rethink the inherent principles of standard convolution for vision tasks, specifically spatial-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Duo Li , Jie Hu , Changhu Wang , Xiangtai Li , Qi She , Lei Zhu , Tong Zhang , Qifeng Chen

We present a deep layered architecture that generalizes classical convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). The architecture, called SimNets, is driven by two operators, one being a similarity function whose family contains the convolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Nadav Cohen , Amnon Shashua

We present a deep layered architecture that generalizes convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). The architecture, called SimNets, is driven by two operators: (i) a similarity function that generalizes inner-product, and (ii) a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Nadav Cohen , Or Sharir , Amnon Shashua