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This paper proposes a novel attention model for semantic segmentation, which aggregates multi-scale and context features to refine prediction. Specifically, the skeleton convolutional neural network framework takes in multiple different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shiqi Yang , Gang Peng

Despite the effectiveness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) especially in image classification tasks, the effect of convolution features on learned representations is still limited. It mostly focuses on the salient object of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Qing Li , Qiang Peng , Chuan Yan

Equivariances provide useful inductive biases in neural network modeling, with the translation equivariance of convolutional neural networks being a canonical example. Equivariances can be embedded in architectures through weight-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , David W. Romero , Mark van der Wilk

We propose a novel visual context-aware filter generation module which incorporates contextual information present in images into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to traditional CNNs, we do not employ the same set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Suraj Tripathi , Abhay Kumar , Chirag Singh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been pivotal to the success of many state-of-the-art classification problems, in a wide variety of domains (for e.g. vision, speech, graphs and medical imaging). A commonality within those domains is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Rohan Ghosh , Anupam K. Gupta , Mehul Motani

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable results in image classification for benchmark tasks and practical applications. The CNNs with deeper architectures have achieved even higher performance recently thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ryo Takahashi , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

Equivariance w.r.t. geometric transformations in neural networks improves data efficiency, parameter efficiency and robustness to out-of-domain perspective shifts. When equivariance is not designed into a neural network, the network can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Tomasz Motyka , Jan van Gemert

Spherical CNNs generalize CNNs to functions on the sphere, by using spherical convolutions as the main linear operation. The most accurate and efficient way to compute spherical convolutions is in the spectral domain (via the convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carlos Esteves , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Ameesh Makadia

Invariance to spatial transformations such as translations and rotations is a desirable property and a basic design principle for classification neural networks. However, the commonly used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yihan Wang , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

The benefit of localized features within the regular domain has given rise to the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in machine learning, with great proficiency in the image classification. The use of CNNs becomes problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Michael Edwards , Xianghua Xie

In this contribution, we show how to incorporate prior knowledge to a deep neural network architecture in a principled manner. We enforce feature space invariances using a novel layer based on invariant integration. This allows us to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Matthias Rath , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Following the traditional paradigm of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), modern CNNs manage to keep pace with more recent, for example transformer-based, models by not only increasing model depth and width but also the kernel size. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Rishabh Goyal , Joaquin Vanschoren , Victor van Acht , Stephan Nijssen

Convolutional Neural Networks have dramatically improved in recent years, surpassing human accuracy on certain problems and performance exceeding that of traditional computer vision algorithms. While the compute pattern in itself is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Michaela Blott , Thomas B. Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth OBrien , Yaman Umuroglu , Miriam Leeser

Quantization enables efficient acceleration of deep neural networks by reducing model memory footprint and exploiting low-cost integer math hardware units. Quantization maps floating-point weights and activations in a trained model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Steve Dai , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Haoxing Ren , Brian Zimmer , William J. Dally , Brucek Khailany

In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette

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

In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of treated as any other variation, the complexity of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Nikos Komodakis , Devis Tuia

Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) are inherently equivariant under translations, however, they do not have an equivalent embedded mechanism to handle other transformations such as rotations and change in scale. Several approaches exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Naman Khetan , Tushar Arora , Samee Ur Rehman , Deepak K. Gupta

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being applied to an increasing number of problems and fields due to their superior performance in classification and regression tasks. Since two of the key operations that CNNs implement are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fernando Gama , Geert Leus , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro