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Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, existing CNN-based SISR methods mostly assume that a low-resolution (LR) image is bicubicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Lightweight and efficiency are critical drivers for the practical application of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms. We propose a simple and effective approach, ShuffleMixer, for lightweight image super-resolution that explores large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Long Sun , Jinshan Pan , Jinhui Tang

Improving the image resolution and acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem. There are mainly two strategies dealing with the speed-resolution trade-off: (1) $k$-space undersampling with high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wenqi Huang , Sen Jia , Ziwen Ke , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Jing Cheng , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

A convolutional layer in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) consists of many filters which apply convolution operation to the input, capture some special patterns and pass the result to the next layer. If the same patterns also occur at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Okan Köpüklü , Maryam Babaee , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

Super-resolution (SR) has traditionally been based on pairs of high-resolution images (HR) and their low-resolution (LR) counterparts obtained artificially with bicubic downsampling. However, in real-world SR, there is a large variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Thomas Yu , Claudiu Musat , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran

We propose and analyze a new family of algorithms for training neural networks with ReLU activations. Our algorithms are based on the technique of alternating minimization: estimating the activation patterns of each ReLU for all given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

Amongst others, the adoption of Rectified Linear Units (ReLUs) is regarded as one of the ingredients of the success of deep learning. ReLU activation has been shown to mitigate the vanishing gradient issue, to encourage sparsity in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 Nicola Picchiotti , Marco Gori

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) usually use the same activation function, such as RELU, for all convolutional layers. There are performance limitations of just using RELU. In order to achieve better classification performance, reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Luna M. Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been consistently proved state-of-the-art results in image Super-Resolution (SR), representing an exceptional opportunity for the remote sensing field to extract further information and knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Francesco Salvetti , Vittorio Mazzia , Aleem Khaliq , Marcello Chiaberge

We draw connections between simple neural networks and under-determined linear systems to comprehensively explore several interesting theoretical questions in the study of neural networks. First, we emphatically show that it is unsurprising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle , Alex Townsend

Neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions, such as rectified linear units (ReLU) or maxout, are among the most fundamental models in modern machine learning. We make a step towards proving lower bounds on the size of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Christoph Hertrich , Georg Loho

Single-image super-resolution is the process of increasing the resolution of an image, obtaining a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) one. By leveraging large training datasets, convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

When optimizing a nonlinear objective, one can employ a neural network as a surrogate for the nonlinear function. However, the resulting optimization model can be time-consuming to solve globally with exact methods. As a result, local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jiatai Tong , Yilin Zhu , Thiago Serra , Samuel Burer

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) for image denoising, which uses exponential linear unit (ELU) as the activation function. We investigate the suitability by analyzing ELU's connection with trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Tianyang Wang , Zhengrui Qin , Michelle Zhu

Convolutional neural networks excel in a number of computer vision tasks. One of their most crucial architectural elements is the effective receptive field size, that has to be manually set to accommodate a specific task. Standard solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Domen Tabernik , Matej Kristan , Aleš Leonardis

We introduce a biologically inspired, multilayer neural architecture composed of Rectified Spectral Units (ReSUs). Each ReSU projects a recent window of its input history onto a canonical direction obtained via canonical correlation…

A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in image classification and gives better classification accuracy than the other techniques. The softmax cross-entropy loss function is often used for classification tasks. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

This paper analyzes representations of continuous piecewise linear functions with infinite width, finite cost shallow neural networks using the rectified linear unit (ReLU) as an activation function. Through its integral representation, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sarah McCarty

Image super-resolution (SR) in resource-constrained scenarios demands lightweight models balancing performance and latency. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer low latency but lack non-local feature capture, while Transformers excel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Quanwei Hu , Yinggan Tang , Xuguang Zhang

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning algorithms must balance classification accuracy with data privacy. This can be done using a combination of cryptographic and machine learning tools such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Inbar Helbitz , Shai Avidan