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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) show impressive performance in the standard classification setting where training and testing data are drawn i.i.d. from a given domain. However, CNNs do not readily generalize to new domains with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Nathan Somavarapu , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira

The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitations in the cue-conflict experiment by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tom Burgert , Oliver Stoll , Paolo Rota , Begüm Demir

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at image classification but remain vulnerable to common corruptions that humans handle with ease. A key reason for this fragility is their reliance on local texture cues rather than global object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Robin Narsingh Ranabhat , Longwei Wang , Amit Kumar Patel , KC santosh

Recent work suggests that changing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture by introducing a bottleneck in the second layer can yield changes in learned function. To understand this relationship fully requires a way of quantitatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ethan Harris , Daniela Mihai , Jonathon Hare

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a standard approach for visual recognition due to their capacity to learn hierarchical representations from raw pixels. In practice, practitioners often choose among (i) training a compact custom CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Annoor Sharara Akhand

Despite the initial belief that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are driven by shapes to perform visual recognition tasks, recent evidence suggests that texture bias in CNNs provides higher performing models when learning on large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Reza Azad , Abdur R Fayjie , Claude Kauffman , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to rely more on local texture rather than global shape when making decisions. Recent work also indicates a close relationship between CNN's texture-bias and its robustness against distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baifeng Shi , Dinghuai Zhang , Qi Dai , Zhanxing Zhu , Yadong Mu , Jingdong Wang

The ability to automatically learn task specific feature representations has led to a huge success of deep learning methods. When large training data is scarce, such as in medical imaging problems, transfer learning has been very effective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Hariharan Ravishankar , Prasad Sudhakar , Rahul Venkataramani , Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam , Pavan Annangi , Narayanan Babu , Vivek Vaidya

The success of training deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) heavily depends on a significant amount of labelled data. Recent research has found that neural style transfer algorithms can apply the artistic style of one image to another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xu Zheng , Tejo Chalasani , Koustav Ghosal , Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

Neural networks have a number of shortcomings. Amongst the severest ones is the sensitivity to distribution shifts which allows models to be easily fooled into wrong predictions by small perturbations to inputs that are often imperceivable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

While successful for various computer vision tasks, deep neural networks have shown to be vulnerable to texture style shifts and small perturbations to which humans are robust. In this work, we show that the robustness of neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhenlin Xu , Deyi Liu , Junlin Yang , Colin Raffel , Marc Niethammer

Current deep-learning models for object recognition are known to be heavily biased toward texture. In contrast, human visual systems are known to be biased toward shape and structure. What could be the design principles in human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianqin Li , Ziqi Wen , Yangfan Li , Tai Sing Lee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exhibit a well-known texture bias, prioritizing local patterns over global shapes - a tendency inherent to their convolutional architecture. While this bias is beneficial for texture-rich natural images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Takito Sawada , Akinori Iwata , Masahiro Okuda

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Transfer learning from huge natural image datasets, fine-tuning of deep neural networks and the use of the corresponding pre-trained networks have become de facto the core of art analysis applications. Nevertheless, the effects of transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nicolas Gonthier , Yann Gousseau , Saïd Ladjal

Recent research has investigated the shape and texture biases of pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification. Those works test how much a trained DNN relies on specific image cues like texture. The present study shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Annika Mütze , Natalie Grabowsky , Edgar Heinert , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stergios Christodoulidis , Marios Anthimopoulos , Lukas Ebner , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Texture classification is an important and challenging problem in many image processing applications. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved significant successes for image classification, texture classification remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Shin Fujieda , Kohei Takayama , Toshiya Hachisuka

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be fooled by subtle, imperceptible changes to the input images. To address this vulnerability, adversarial training creates perturbation patterns and includes them in the training set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli