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Unlike images which are represented in regular dense grids, 3D point clouds are irregular and unordered, hence applying convolution on them can be difficult. In this paper, we extend the dynamic filter to a new convolution operation, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Zhongang Qi , Li Fuxin

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

Model compression techniques on Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been widely acknowledged as an effective way to achieve acceleration on a variety of platforms, and DNN weight pruning is a straightforward and effective method. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaolong Ma , Fu-Ming Guo , Wei Niu , Xue Lin , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are the state-of-the-art in the field of visual computing. However, a major problem with CNNs is the large number of floating point operations (FLOPs) required to perform convolutions for large inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Tobias Engelhardt Rasmussen , Line H Clemmensen , Andreas Baum

We propose a local modelling approach using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine-grained image classification. Recently, deep CNNs trained from large datasets have considerably improved the performance of object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

In digital forensics, file fragment classification is an important step toward completing file carving process. There exist several techniques to identify the type of file fragments without relying on meta-data, such as using features like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mustafa Ghaleb , Kunwar Saaim , Muhamad Felemban , Saleh Al-Saleh , Ahmad Al-Mulhem

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used in many machine learning fields. In practical applications, the computational cost of convolutional neural networks is often high with the deepening of the network and the growth of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shiqing Fan , Liu Liying , Ye Luo

Recently, many Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Licheng Jiao , Jia-Wei Chen , Bo Liu , Wenping Ma , Mi Wang

Dynamic convolution enhances model capacity by adaptively combining multiple kernels, yet faces critical trade-offs: prior works either (1) incur significant parameter overhead by scaling kernel numbers linearly, (2) compromise inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haiduo Huang , Yadong Zhang , Yinghui Xu , Pengju Ren

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are among the most widely used machine learning models for computer vision tasks, such as image classification. To improve the efficiency of CNNs, many CNNs compressing approaches have been developed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Mateusz Gabor , Rafał Zdunek

In this work we introduce a differentiable version of the Compositional Pattern Producing Network, called the DPPN. Unlike a standard CPPN, the topology of a DPPN is evolved but the weights are learned. A Lamarckian algorithm, that combines…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Chrisantha Fernando , Dylan Banarse , Malcolm Reynolds , Frederic Besse , David Pfau , Max Jaderberg , Marc Lanctot , Daan Wierstra

Computer vision often uses highly accurate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but these deep learning models are associated with ever-increasing energy and computation requirements. Producing more energy-efficient CNNs often requires…

Building large models with parameter sharing accounts for most of the success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose doubly convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), which significantly improve the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Weining Lu , Zhongfei Zhang

Depthwise convolution has gradually become an indispensable operation for modern efficient neural networks and larger kernel sizes ($\ge5$) have been applied to it recently. In this paper, we propose a novel extremely separated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Jiarong Chen , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Qingmin Liao

Despite their tremendous successes, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) incur high computational/storage costs and are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Recent works on robust model compression address these challenges by combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hassan Dbouk , Naresh R. Shanbhag

Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

We propose methodologies to train highly accurate and efficient deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image super resolution (SR). A cascade training approach to deep learning is proposed to improve the accuracy of the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Haoyu Ren , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) inference requires significant amount of memory and computation, which limits its deployment on embedded devices. To alleviate these problems to some extent, prior research utilize low precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Liangzhen Lai , Naveen Suda , Vikas Chandra

Recent state-of-the-art methods for point cloud processing are based on the notion of point convolution, for which several approaches have been proposed. In this paper, inspired by discrete convolution in image processing, we provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Alexandre Boulch , Gilles Puy , Renaud Marlet