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To effectively classify graph instances, graph neural networks need to have the capability to capture the part-whole relationship existing in a graph. A capsule is a group of neurons representing complicated properties of entities, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yu Lei , Jing Zhang

Capsule Network (CapsNet) has shown significant improvement in understanding the variation in images along with better generalization ability compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet preserves spatial relationship…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Rahoof , Vivek Chaturvedi , Muhammad Shafique

A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hongyang Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Capsule networks are a recently proposed type of neural network shown to outperform alternatives in challenging shape recognition tasks. In capsule networks, scalar neurons are replaced with capsule vectors or matrices, whose entries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Georgios Leontidis , Stefanos Kollias

Capsule Networks (CapsNets), recently proposed by the Google Brain team, have superior learning capabilities in machine learning tasks, like image classification, compared to the traditional CNNs. However, CapsNets require extremely intense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Beatrice Bussolino , Alessio Colucci , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

In recent years, the CNNs have achieved great successes in the image processing tasks, e.g., image recognition and object detection. Unfortunately, traditional CNN's classification is found to be easily misled by increasingly complex image…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xingyao Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Chenhao Xie , Jing Wang , Weigong Zhang , Xin Fu

The task of multimodal learning has seen a growing interest recently as it allows for training neural architectures based on different modalities such as vision, text, and audio. One challenge in training such models is that they need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Kevin Duarte , Brian Chen , Nina Shvetsova , Andrew Rouditchenko , Samuel Thomas , Alexander Liu , David Harwath , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne , Mubarak Shah

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are a generation of image classifiers with proven advantages over Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Better robustness to affine transformation and overlapping image detection are some of the benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ramin Sharifi , Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Capsule networks (CapsNets) aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts, and their relations using a two-step process involving part-whole transformation and hierarchical component routing. However, this hierarchical relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Swagatam Das , Eric Granger , Salvador Garcia

Capsule networks offer interesting properties and provide an alternative to today's deep neural network architectures. However, recent approaches have failed to consistently achieve competitive results across different image datasets. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Alexander Fuchs , Franz Pernkopf

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are capable of modeling visual hierarchical relationships, which is achieved by the "routing-by-agreement" mechanism. This paper proposes a pairwise agreement mechanism to build capsules, inspired by the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Lei Zhao , Xiaohui Wang , Lei Huang

Capsule networks were proposed as an alternative approach to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for learning object-centric representations, which can be leveraged for improved generalization and sample complexity. Unlike CNNs, capsule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Kevin Duarte , Miles Everett , Georgios Leontidis , Mubarak Shah

Capsules as well as dynamic routing between them are most recently proposed structures for deep neural networks. A capsule groups data into vectors or matrices as poses rather than conventional scalars to represent specific properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Suofei Zhang , Wei Zhao , Xiaofu Wu , Quan Zhou

Capsule network is the most recent exciting advancement in the deep learning field and represents positional information by stacking features into vectors. The dynamic routing algorithm is used in the capsule network, however, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Qiang Ren , Shaohua Shang , Lianghua He

Capsules are the multidimensional analogue to scalar neurons in neural networks, and because they are multidimensional, much more complex routing schemes can be used to pass information forward through the network than what can be used in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Hauser

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that identify image parts and form the instantiation parameters of a whole hierarchically. The goal behind the network is to perform an inverse computer graphics task, and the network parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Saeid Abbassi , Kamaledin Ghiasi-Shirazi , Ahad Harati

How to improve the efficiency of routing procedures in CapsNets has been studied a lot. However, the efficiency of capsule convolutions has largely been neglected. Capsule convolution, which uses capsules rather than neurons as the basic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhenhua Chen , Xiwen Li , Qian Lou , David Crandall

Capsule networks are biologically inspired neural networks that group neurons into vectors called capsules, each explicitly representing an object or one of its parts. The routing mechanism connects capsules in consecutive layers, forming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Riccardo Renzulli , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) are the most recent exciting advancement in deep learning field and their applications are quickly spreading in multi-cross-domains including bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social networks,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Saurabh Verma , Zhi-Li Zhang

Capsule networks have gained a lot of popularity in short time due to its unique approach to model equivariant class specific properties as capsules from images. However the dynamic routing algorithm comes with a steep computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Bodhisatwa Mandal , Swarnendu Ghosh , Ritesh Sarkhel , Nibaran Das , Mita Nasipuri