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In a traditional convolutional layer, the learned filters stay fixed after training. In contrast, we introduce a new framework, the Dynamic Filter Network, where filters are generated dynamically conditioned on an input. We show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Bert De Brabandere , Xu Jia , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

Recent advances in deep learning for 3D point clouds have shown great promises in scene understanding tasks thanks to the introduction of convolution operators to consume 3D point clouds directly in a neural network. Point cloud data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Wei Chen , Yibin Tian , Sai-Kit Yeung

Standard convolutions are prevalent in image processing and deep learning, but their fixed kernels limits adaptability. Several deformation strategies of the reference kernel grid have been proposed. Yet, they lack a unified theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Thomas Dagès , Michael Lindenbaum , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performances in a wide range of applications including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Previous research on characterizing the generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Shan Lin , Jingwei Zhang

Humans understand a set of canonical geometric transformations (such as translation and rotation) that support generalization by being untethered to any specific object. We explore inductive biases that help a neural network model learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Zachary Dulberg , Jonathan Cohen

We demonstrate an object tracking method for 3D images with fixed computational cost and state-of-the-art performance. Previous methods predicted transformation parameters from convolutional layers. We instead propose an architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Daniel Moyer , Esra Abaci Turk , P Ellen Grant , William M. Wells , Polina Golland

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

We introduce Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs), a natural generalization of convolutional neural networks that reduces sample complexity by exploiting symmetries. G-CNNs use G-convolutions, a new type of layer that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

Robustness to transformation is desirable in many computer vision tasks, given that input data often exhibits pose variance. While translation invariance and equivariance is a documented phenomenon of CNNs, sensitivity to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Felix Richards , Adeline Paiement , Xianghua Xie , Elisabeth Sola , Pierre-Alain Duc

Transformers have achieved great success across a wide range of applications, yet the theoretical foundations underlying their success remain largely unexplored. To demystify the strong capacities of transformers applied to versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chenyang Zhang , Qingyue Zhao , Quanquan Gu , Yuan Cao

Filters of convolutional networks used in computer vision are often visualized as image patches that maximize the response of the filter. We use the same approach to interpret weight matrices in simple architectures for natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Jindřich Libovický

Learning 3D representations that generalize well to arbitrarily oriented inputs is a challenge of practical importance in applications varying from computer vision to physics and chemistry. We propose a novel multi-resolution convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 James Fox , Bo Zhao , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Rampi Ramprasad , Le Song

Although group convolutional networks are able to learn powerful representations based on symmetry patterns, they lack explicit means to learn meaningful relationships among them (e.g., relative positions and poses). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

Group Equivariant Convolutions (GConvs) enable convolutional neural networks to be equivariant to various transformation groups, but at an additional parameter and compute cost. We investigate the filter parameters learned by GConvs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Attila Lengyel , Jan C. van Gemert

Image filters are fast, lightweight and effective, which make these conventional wisdoms preferable as basic tools in vision tasks. In practical scenarios, users have to tweak parameters multiple times to obtain satisfied results. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Fu Lee Wang , Yidan Feng , Haoran Xie , Gary Cheng , Mingqiang Wei

Learning approaches have recently become very popular in the field of inverse problems. A large variety of methods has been established in recent years, ranging from bi-level learning to high-dimensional machine learning techniques. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Martin Benning , Guy Gilboa , Joana Sarah Grah , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

While filtered back projection (FBP) is still the method of choice for fast tomographic reconstruction, its performance degrades noticeably in the presence of noise, incomplete sampling, or non-standard scan geometries. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hamid Fathi , Alexander Skorikov , Tristan van Leeuwen

Group convolutional layers with respect to some group $G$ are modeled by convolutions or cross-correlations with a filter, and they provide the fundamental building block for group convolutional neural networks. For entirely unconstrained…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Benedikt Fluhr

Typical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have several millions of parameters and require a large amount of annotated data to train them. In medical applications where training data is hard to come by, these sophisticated machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Rahul Venkataramani , Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam , Prasad Sudhakar , Hariharan Ravishankar , Vivek Vaidya

In this paper we elaborate an extension of rotation-based iterative Gaussianization, RBIG, which makes image Gaussianization possible. Although RBIG has been successfully applied to many tasks, it is limited to medium dimensionality data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Valero Laparra , Alexander Hepburn , J. Emmanuel Johnson , Jesús Malo