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In recent years the use of convolutional layers to encode an inductive bias (translational equivariance) in neural networks has proven to be a very fruitful idea. The successes of this approach have motivated a line of research into…

This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

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Several popular approaches to 3D vision tasks process multiple views of the input independently with deep neural networks pre-trained on natural images, achieving view permutation invariance through a single round of pooling over all views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Carlos Esteves , Yinshuang Xu , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Kostas Daniilidis

Building discriminative representations for 3D data has been an important task in computer graphics and computer vision research. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to operate on 2D images with great success for a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Yangyan Li , Soeren Pirk , Hao Su , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas

Defining and reliably finding a canonical orientation for 3D surfaces is key to many Computer Vision and Robotics applications. This task is commonly addressed by handcrafted algorithms exploiting geometric cues deemed as distinctive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Riccardo Spezialetti , Federico Stella , Marlon Marcon , Luciano Silva , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Translating or rotating an input image should not affect the results of many computer vision tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are already translation equivariant: input image translations produce proportionate feature map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Daniel E. Worrall , Stephan J. Garbin , Daniyar Turmukhambetov , Gabriel J. Brostow

Convolutional neural networks are state-of-the-art for various segmentation tasks. While for 2D images these networks are also computationally efficient, 3D convolutions have huge storage requirements and therefore, end-to-end training is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier

We present Roto-Translation Equivariant Spherical Deconvolution (RT-ESD), an $E(3)\times SO(3)$ equivariant framework for sparse deconvolution of volumes where each voxel contains a spherical signal. Such 6D data naturally arises in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Axel Elaldi , Guido Gerig , Neel Dey

Regular group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase model performance and improve equivariance to different geometrical symmetries. This work addresses the problem of SE(3), i.e., roto-translation equivariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Thijs P. Kuipers , Erik J. Bekkers

With the beginning of the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, a quantum neural network (QNN) has recently emerged as a solution for several specific problems that classical neural networks cannot solve. Moreover, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Hankyul Baek , Won Joon Yun , Joongheon Kim

Many settings in machine learning require the selection of a rotation representation. However, choosing a suitable representation from the many available options is challenging. This paper acts as a survey and guide through rotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 A. René Geist , Jonas Frey , Mikel Zhobro , Anna Levina , Georg Martius

In this work, we introduce 6D Convolutional Neural Network (6DCNN) designed to tackle the problem of detecting relative positions and orientations of local patterns when processing three-dimensional volumetric data. 6DCNN also includes…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-02 Dmitrii Zhemchuzhnikov , Ilia Igashov , Sergei Grudinin

While 360{\deg} cameras offer tremendous new possibilities in vision, graphics, and augmented reality, the spherical images they produce make core feature extraction non-trivial. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu-Chuan Su , Kristen Grauman

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

Deploying 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) that are equivariant to 3D rotations (the group SO(3)) on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational cost. This paper addresses the problem by compressing and accelerating an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoyu Zhou , Ping Xue , Hao Zhang , Tianfan Fu

Efficiency and robustness are increasingly needed for applications on 3D point clouds, with the ubiquitous use of edge devices in scenarios like autonomous driving and robotics, which often demand real-time and reliable responses. The paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhuo Su , Max Welling , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on many visual recognition tasks. However, the combination of convolution and pooling operations only shows invariance to small local location changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Despite the steady progress in video analysis led by the adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the relative improvement has been less drastic as that in 2D static image classification. Three main challenges exist including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Saining Xie , Chen Sun , Jonathan Huang , Zhuowen Tu , Kevin Murphy

In many practical applications, 3D point cloud analysis requires rotation invariance. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor invariant under 3D rotations and reflections, i.e., the O(3) actions, utilizing the recently introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pavlo Melnyk , Andreas Robinson , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

We propose a framework for rotation and translation covariant deep learning using $SE(2)$ group convolutions. The group product of the special Euclidean motion group $SE(2)$ describes how a concatenation of two roto-translations results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Erik J Bekkers , Maxime W Lafarge , Mitko Veta , Koen AJ Eppenhof , Josien PW Pluim , Remco Duits