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Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yongxi Lu , Abhishek Kumar , Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Tara Javidi , Rogerio Feris

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

In practical applications, computer vision tasks often need to be addressed simultaneously. Multitask learning typically achieves this by jointly training a single deep neural network to learn shared representations, providing efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Konstantinos Spathis , Nikolaos Kardaris , Petros Maragos

In this work, we address the problem of improvement of robustness of feature representations learned using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to image deformation. We argue that higher moment statistics of feature distributions could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

With the impressive capability to capture visual content, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demon- strated promising performance in various vision-based ap- plications, such as classification, recognition, and objec- t…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Zhen Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the cutting edge model for supervised machine learning in computer vision. In recent years CNNs have outperformed traditional approaches in many computer vision tasks such as object detection, image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Nitzan Guberman

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task learning method based on the deep convolutional network. The proposed deep network has four convolutional layers, three max-pooling layers, and two parallel fully connected layers. To adjust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Fang Su , Hai-Yang Shang , Jing-Yan Wang

Visual recognition algorithms are required today to exhibit adaptive abilities. Given a deep model trained on a specific, given task, it would be highly desirable to be able to adapt incrementally to new tasks, preserving scalability as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo , Samuel Rota Bulò

With the powerfulness of convolution neural networks (CNN), CNN based face reconstruction has recently shown promising performance in reconstructing detailed face shape from 2D face images. The success of CNN-based methods relies on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Boyi Jiang , Jianmin Zheng

While Multi-Task Learning (MTL) offers inherent advantages in complex domains such as medical imaging by enabling shared representation learning, effectively balancing task contributions remains a significant challenge. This paper addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Youssef Mohamed , Noran Mohamed , Khaled Abouhashad , Feilong Tang , Sara Atito , Shoaib Jameel , Imran Razzak , Ahmed B. Zaky

We consider the task of predicting various traits of a person given an image of their face. We estimate both objective traits, such as gender, ethnicity and hair-color; as well as subjective traits, such as the emotion a person expresses or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Yoad Lewenberg , Yoram Bachrach , Sukrit Shankar , Antonio Criminisi

In this paper, we present a deep coupled framework to address the problem of matching sketch image against a gallery of mugshots. Face sketches have the essential in- formation about the spatial topology and geometric details of faces while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Hadi Kazemi , Sobhan Soleymani , Ali Dabouei , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

This project provides a comparative study of dynamic convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for various tasks, including image classification, segmentation, and time series analysis. Based on the ResNet-18 architecture, we compare five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Kamal Sherawat , Vikrant Bhati

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved impressive results in various tasks, but interpreting the internal mechanism is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we exploit a multi-channel attention mechanism in feature space. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Masanari Kimura , Masayuki Tanaka

Recently, deep learning based 3D face reconstruction methods have shown promising results in both quality and efficiency.However, training deep neural networks typically requires a large volume of data, whereas face images with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Sicheng Xu , Dong Chen , Yunde Jia , Xin Tong

Various factors, such as identities, views (poses), and illuminations, are coupled in face images. Disentangling the identity and view representations is a major challenge in face recognition. Existing face recognition systems either use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-27 Zhenyao Zhu , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

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

We have developed convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a facial expression recognition task. The goal is to classify each facial image into one of the seven facial emotion categories considered in this study. We trained CNN models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Shima Alizadeh , Azar Fazel

Residual learning has recently surfaced as an effective means of constructing very deep neural networks for object recognition. However, current incarnations of residual networks do not allow for the modeling and integration of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Brendan Jou , Shih-Fu Chang