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We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Contrasting the previous evidence that neurons in the later layers of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) respond to complex object shapes, recent studies have shown that CNNs actually exhibit a `texture bias': given an image with both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Patrick Esser , Sen Jia , Bjorn Ommer , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil Bruce

We present ProtoViT, a method for interpretable image classification combining deep learning and case-based reasoning. This method classifies an image by comparing it to a set of learned prototypes, providing explanations of the form ``this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chiyu Ma , Jon Donnelly , Wenjun Liu , Soroush Vosoughi , Cynthia Rudin , Chaofan Chen

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful models that achieve impressive results for image classification. In addition, pre-trained CNNs are also useful for other computer vision tasks as generic feature extractors. This paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Ben Athiwaratkun , Keegan Kang

In the scenario of one/multi-shot learning, conventional end-to-end learning strategies without sufficient supervision are usually not powerful enough to learn correct patterns from noisy signals. Thus, given a CNN pre-trained for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Quanshi Zhang , Ruiming Cao , Shengming Zhang , Mark Redmonds , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is challenging but more critical than traditional classification tasks. It requires distinguishing different subcategories with the inherently subtle intra-class object variations. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhenhuan Huang , Xiaoyue Duan , Bo Zhao , Jinhu Lü , Baochang Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and especially Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a de-facto standard for the analysis of large volumes of signals and images. Yet, their development and underlying principles have been largely performed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic

This paper aims at providing insight on the transferability of deep CNN features to unsupervised problems. We study the impact of different pretrained CNN feature extractors on the problem of image set clustering for object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

This paper presents an approach for semantic place categorization using data obtained from RGB cameras. Previous studies on visual place recognition and classification have shown that, by considering features derived from pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Bulò , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

Neural network interpretability is a vital component for applications across a wide variety of domains. In such cases it is often useful to analyze a network which has already been trained for its specific purpose. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lawrence Phillips , Garrett Goh , Nathan Hodas

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in computer vision. However, interpreting CNNs still remains a challenge. This is mainly due to the large number of parameters in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Reza Abbasi-Asl , Bin Yu

With the advancement of remote-sensed imaging large volumes of very high resolution land cover images can now be obtained. Automation of object recognition in these 2D images, however, is still a key issue. High intra-class variance and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Vikas Agaradahalli Gurumurthy

Concept-based interpretability for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) aims to align internal model representations with high-level semantic concepts, but existing approaches largely overlook the semantic roles of individual filters and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinyu Mu , Hui Dou , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jiabo Huang , Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

Deep learning methods are powerful tools but often suffer from expensive computation and limited flexibility. An alternative is to combine light-weight models with deep representations. As successful cases exist in several visual problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bin Yang , Junjie Yan , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

In this paper, we propose deformable deep convolutional neural networks for generic object detection. This new deep learning object detection framework has innovations in multiple aspects. In the proposed new deep architecture, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Xingyu Zeng , Shi Qiu , Ping Luo , Yonglong Tian , Hongsheng Li , Shuo Yang , Zhe Wang , Chen-Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

This paper introduces versatile filters to construct efficient convolutional neural networks that are widely used in various visual recognition tasks. Considering the demands of efficient deep learning techniques running on cost-effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Chunjing Xu , Enhua Wu , Dacheng Tao

We propose an efficient transfer learning method for adapting ImageNet pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to fine-grained image classification task. Conventional transfer learning methods typically face the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Xiangxi Mo , Ruizhe Cheng , Tianyi Fang