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Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Weitao Du , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du , Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

3D Convolutional Neural Networks are sensitive to transformations applied to their input. This is a problem because a voxelized version of a 3D object, and its rotated clone, will look unrelated to each other after passing through to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Worrall , Gabriel Brostow

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

Rigid motion tracking is paramount in many medical imaging applications where movements need to be detected, corrected, or accounted for. Modern strategies rely on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and pose this problem as rigid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Benjamin Billot , Neel Dey , Daniel Moyer , Malte Hoffmann , Esra Abaci Turk , Borjan Gagoski , Ellen Grant , Polina Golland

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

Histology images are inherently symmetric under rotation, where each orientation is equally as likely to appear. However, this rotational symmetry is not widely utilised as prior knowledge in modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Simon Graham , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

3D Euclidean symmetry equivariant neural networks have demonstrated notable success in modeling complex physical systems. We introduce a framework for relaxed $E(3)$ graph equivariant neural networks that can learn and represent symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Elyssa Hofgard , Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Tess Smidt

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

We present Clifford-Steerable Convolutional Neural Networks (CS-CNNs), a novel class of $\mathrm{E}(p, q)$-equivariant CNNs. CS-CNNs process multivector fields on pseudo-Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^{p,q}$. They cover, for instance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Maksim Zhdanov , David Ruhe , Maurice Weiler , Ana Lucic , Johannes Brandstetter , Patrick Forré

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

We present a general theory of Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) on homogeneous spaces such as Euclidean space and the sphere. Feature maps in these networks represent fields on a homogeneous base space, and layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Maurice Weiler

We address the problem of 3D rotation equivariance in convolutional neural networks. 3D rotations have been a challenging nuisance in 3D classification tasks requiring higher capacity and extended data augmentation in order to tackle it. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Carlos Esteves , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Ameesh Makadia , Kostas Daniilidis

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

The ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to recognize objects regardless of their position in the image is due to the translation-equivariance of the convolutional operation. Group-equivariant CNNs transfer this equivariance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Thomas Wimmer , Vladimir Golkov , Hoai Nam Dang , Moritz Zaiss , Andreas Maier , Daniel Cremers

Steerable CNN imposes the prior knowledge of transformation invariance or equivariance in the network architecture to enhance the the network robustness on geometry transformation of data and reduce overfitting. It has been an intuitive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Bo Li , Qili Wang , Gim Hee Lee

A desireable property of accelerometric gait-based identification systems is robustness to new device orientations presented by users during testing but unseen during the training phase. However, traditional Convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Bowen Jing , Vinay Prabhu , Angela Gu , John Whaley

Processing information on 3D objects requires methods stable to rigid-body transformations, in particular rotations, of the input data. In image processing tasks, convolutional neural networks achieve this property using…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-07 Ilia Igashov , Nikita Pavlichenko , Sergei Grudinin

Recently, convolutional neural networks with 3D kernels (3D CNNs) have been very popular in computer vision community as a result of their superior ability of extracting spatio-temporal features within video frames compared to 2D CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Okan Köpüklü , Neslihan Kose , Ahmet Gunduz , Gerhard Rigoll

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Fausto Milletari , Nassir Navab , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

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