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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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This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

While most existing segmentation methods usually combined the powerful feature extraction capabilities of CNNs with Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) post-processing, the result always limited by the fault of CRFs . Due to the notoriously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 ZengShun Zhaoa , Yulong Wang , Ke Liu , Haoran Yang , Qian Sun , Heng Qiao

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

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

Correspondence matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics applications. Solving correspondence matching problems using neural networks has been on the rise recently. Rotation-equivariance and scale-equivariance are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Shuai Su , Zhongkai Zhao , Yixin Fei , Shuda Li , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

In this paper we show how Group Equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks use subsampling to learn to break equivariance to their symmetries. We focus on 2D rotations and reflections and investigate the impact of broken equivariance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Tom Edixhoven , Attila Lengyel , Jan van Gemert

Incorporating group symmetry directly into the learning process has proved to be an effective guideline for model design. By producing features that are guaranteed to transform covariantly to the group actions on the inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Liyao Gao , Guang Lin , Wei Zhu

We introduce a fast and efficient convolutional neural network, ESPNet, for semantic segmentation of high resolution images under resource constraints. ESPNet is based on a new convolutional module, efficient spatial pyramid (ESP), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Sachin Mehta , Mohammad Rastegari , Anat Caspi , Linda Shapiro , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Multi-scale deep CNNs have been used successfully for problems mapping each pixel to a label, such as depth estimation and semantic segmentation. It has also been shown that such architectures are reusable and can be used for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Arsalan Mousavian , Hamed Pirsiavash , Jana Kosecka

Semantic segmentation is a critical task in computer vision aiming to identify and classify individual pixels in an image, with numerous applications in for example autonomous driving and medical image analysis. However, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Halil Ibrahim Aysel , Xiaohao Cai , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Symmetry, where certain features remain invariant under geometric transformations, can often serve as a powerful prior in designing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While conventional CNNs inherently support translational equivariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yuexi Du , Jiazhen Zhang , Nicha C. Dvornek , John A. Onofrey

Breast cancer is one of the common cancers that endanger the health of women globally. Accurate target lesion segmentation is essential for early clinical intervention and postoperative follow-up. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lu Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Xiaotao Yin , Liang Cui , Yu Dai

Extending the translation equivariance property of convolutional neural networks to larger symmetry groups has been shown to reduce sample complexity and enable more discriminative feature learning. Further, exploiting additional symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Lisa Weijler , Pedro Hermosilla

The big empirical success of group equivariant networks has led in recent years to the sprouting of a great variety of equivariant network architectures. A particular focus has thereby been on rotation and reflection equivariant CNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Maurice Weiler , Gabriele Cesa

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

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hans Thisanke , Chamli Deshan , Kavindu Chamith , Sachith Seneviratne , Rajith Vidanaarachchi , Damayanthi Herath

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used for brain tumor segmentation, specifically, fully convolutional networks (FCNs). FCNs can segment a set of voxels at once, having a direct spatial correspondence between units…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Sérgio Pereira , Victor Alves , Carlos A. Silva

Encoding the scale information explicitly into the representation learned by a convolutional neural network (CNN) is beneficial for many computer vision tasks especially when dealing with multiscale inputs. We study, in this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wei Zhu , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro , Xiuyuan Cheng

Equivariance of neural networks to transformations helps to improve their performance and reduce generalization error in computer vision tasks, as they apply to datasets presenting symmetries (e.g. scalings, rotations, translations). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo