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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 (see e.g. Hinton et al., 2018) aim to encode knowledge and reason about the relationship between an object and its parts. In this paper we specify a \emph{generative} model for such data, and derive a variational algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Alfredo Nazabal , Nikolaos Tsagkas , Christopher K. I. Williams

Capsule networks are constrained by the parameter-expensive nature of their layers, and the general lack of provable equivariance guarantees. We present a variation of capsule networks that aims to remedy this. We identify that learning all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Sairaam Venkatraman , S. Balasubramanian , R. Raghunatha Sarma

Inspired by CapsNet's routing-by-agreement mechanism with its ability to learn object properties, we explore if those properties in turn can determine new properties of the objects, such as the locations. We then propose a CapsNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Weitang Liu , Emad Barsoum , John D. Owens

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

Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to embed object transformations. That is highly inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Marcello Chiaberge

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve translational invariance by using pooling operations. However, the operations do not preserve the spatial relationships in the learned representations. Hence, CNNs cannot extrapolate to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Capsule networks, which incorporate the paradigms of connectionism and symbolism, have brought fresh insights into artificial intelligence. The capsule, as the building block of capsule networks, is a group of neurons represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Zidu Liu , Pei-Xin Shen , Weikang Li , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

In capsule networks, the routing algorithm connects capsules in consecutive layers, enabling the upper-level capsules to learn higher-level concepts by combining the concepts of the lower-level capsules. Capsule networks are known to have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Inyoung Paik , Taeyeong Kwak , Injung Kim

In this work, we investigate the following: 1) how the routing affects the CapsNet model fitting; 2) how the representation using capsules helps discover global structures in data distribution, and; 3) how the learned data representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ancheng Lin , Jun Li , Zhenyuan Ma

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

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 are a class of neural networks that achieved promising results on many computer vision tasks. However, baseline capsule networks have failed to reach state-of-the-art results on more complex datasets due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Josef Gugglberger , David Peer , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

We propose Masked Capsule Autoencoders (MCAE), the first Capsule Network that utilises pretraining in a modern self-supervised paradigm, specifically the masked image modelling framework. Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Miles Everett , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Capsule networks promise significant benefits over convolutional networks by storing stronger internal representations, and routing information based on the agreement between intermediate representations' projections. Despite this, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rodney Lalonde , Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) is a machine learning architecture proposed to overcome some of the shortcomings of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CapsNets have mainly outperformed CNNs in datasets where images are small and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Juan P. Vigueras-Guillén , Arijit Patra , Ola Engkvist , Frank Seeliger

Capsule network was introduced as a new architecture of neural networks, it encoding features as capsules to overcome the lacking of equivariant in the convolutional neural networks. It uses dynamic routing algorithm to train parameters in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qiang Ren

This project considers Capsule Networks, a recently introduced machine learning model that has shown promising results regarding generalization and preservation of spatial information with few parameters. The Capsule Network's inner routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Gonçalo Faria

Capsule networks(CapsNet) are recently proposed neural network models with new processing layers, specifically for entity representation and discovery of images. It is well known that CapsNet have some advantages over traditional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daoyuan Ye , Juntao Li , Yiting Shen

CapsNet (Capsule Network) was first proposed by~\citet{capsule} and later another version of CapsNet was proposed by~\citet{emrouting}. CapsNet has been proved effective in modeling spatial features with much fewer parameters. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Zhenhua Chen , David Crandall