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Building on recent work on capsule networks, we propose a new, general-purpose form of "routing by agreement" that activates output capsules in a layer as a function of their net benefit to use and net cost to ignore input capsules from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Franz A. Heinsen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become a key asset to most of fields in AI. Despite their successful performance, CNNs suffer from a major drawback. They fail to capture the hierarchy of spatial relation among different parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Marzieh Edraki , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

Capsule Networks, as alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks, have been proposed to recognize objects from images. The current literature demonstrates many advantages of CapsNets over CNNs. However, how to create explanations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Accurate and reliable traffic forecasting for complicated transportation networks is of vital importance to modern transportation management. The complicated spatial dependencies of roadway links and the dynamic temporal patterns of traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Xiaolei Ma , Yi Li , Zhiyong Cui , Yinhai Wang

Image classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of object in the image. In recent years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to handle this task, and impressive improvement has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hao Ren , Jianlin Su , Hong Lu

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are superior at modeling hierarchical spatial relationships but suffer from two critical limitations: high computational cost due to iterative dynamic routing and poor robustness under input corruptions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Canqun Xiang , Chen Yang , Jiaoyan Zhao

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are able to hierarchically preserve the pose relationships between multiple objects for image classification tasks. Other than achieving high accuracy, another relevant factor in deploying CapsNets in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alberto Marchisio , Antonio De Marco , Alessio Colucci , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Capsule neural networks replace simple, scalar-valued neurons with vector-valued capsules. They are motivated by the pattern recognition system in the human brain, where complex objects are decomposed into a hierarchy of simpler object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Matthias Mitterreiter , Marcel Koch , Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have produced state-of-the-art results for image classification tasks. However, they are limited in their ability to handle rotational and viewpoint variations due to information loss in max-pooling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Samaneh Javadinia , Amirali Baniasadi

Obstacles hindering the development of capsule networks for challenging NLP applications include poor scalability to large output spaces and less reliable routing processes. In this paper, we introduce: 1) an agreement score to evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Wei Zhao , Haiyun Peng , Steffen Eger , Erik Cambria , Min Yang

The basic computational unit in Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a capsule (vs. neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)). A capsule is a set of neurons, which form a vector. CapsNet is used for supervised classification of data and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pouya Shiri , Ramin Sharifi , Amirali Baniasadi

Geometric transformations of the training data as well as the test data present challenges to the use of deep neural networks to vision-based learning tasks. In order to address this issue, we present a deep neural network model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sai Raam Venkataraman , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

In this paper, we focus on learning low-dimensional embeddings for nodes in graph-structured data. To achieve this, we propose Caps2NE -- a new unsupervised embedding model leveraging a network of two capsule layers. Caps2NE induces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Dinh Phung

In this paper, we formalize the idea behind capsule nets of using a capsule vector rather than a neuron activation to predict the label of samples. To this end, we propose to learn a group of capsule subspaces onto which an input feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Liheng Zhang , Marzieh Edraki , Guo-Jun Qi

Capsule network is a recent new deep network architecture that has been applied successfully for medical image segmentation tasks. This work extends capsule networks for volumetric medical image segmentation with self-supervised learning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Minh Tran , Loi Ly , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

Capsule networks are a neural network architecture specialized for visual scene recognition. Features and pose information are extracted from a scene and then dynamically routed through a hierarchy of vector-valued nodes called 'capsules'…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-07 Alex B. Kiefer , Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

Capsule Network (CapsNet) has demonstrated significant potential in visual recognition by capturing spatial relationships and part-whole hierarchies for learning equivariant feature representations. However, existing CapsNet and variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yudong Hu , Yueju Han , Rui Sun , Jinke Ren

Neural networks designed for the task of classification have become a commodity in recent years. Many works target the development of better networks, which results in a complexification of their architectures with more layers, multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Adrien Deliège , Anthony Cioppa , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Capsule network has shown various advantages over convolutional neural network (CNN). It keeps more precise spatial information than CNN and uses equivariance instead of invariance during inference and highly potential to be a new effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Zonglin Yang , Xinggang Wang

Capsule Network (CapsNet) is among the promising classifiers and a possible successor of the classifiers built based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet is more accurate than CNNs in detecting images with overlapping categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi