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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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for visual tasks are believed to learn both the low-level textures and high-level object attributes, throughout the network depth. This paper further investigates the `texture bias' in CNNs. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Yong Zhang

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

Shape learning, or the ability to leverage shape information, could be a desirable property of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when target objects have specific shapes. While some research on the topic is emerging, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixin Zhang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Recent advances in machine learning have greatly benefited object detection and 6D pose estimation. However, textureless and metallic objects still pose a significant challenge due to few visual cues and the texture bias of CNNs. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Peter Hönig , Stefan Thalhammer , Jean-Baptiste Weibel , Matthias Hirschmanner , Markus Vincze

Increasingly more similarities between human vision and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been revealed in the past few years. Yet, vanilla CNNs often fall short in generalizing to adversarial or out-of-distribution (OOD) examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Peijie Chen , Chirag Agarwal , Anh Nguyen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in vision-related tasks. However, their susceptibility to failing when inputs deviate from the training distribution is well-documented. Recent studies suggest that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Pradyumna Elavarthi , James Lee , Anca Ralescu

As object recognition becomes an increasingly common ML task, and recent research demonstrating CNNs vulnerability to attacks and small image perturbations necessitate fully understanding the foundations of object recognition. We focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Megha Srivastava , Kalanit Grill-Spector

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

Deep learning has established many new state of the art solutions in the last decade in areas such as object, scene and speech recognition. In particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a category of deep learning which obtains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Vincent Andrearczyk , Paul F. Whelan

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

Texture-based classification solutions have proven their significance in many domains, from industrial inspections to health-related applications. New methods have been developed based on texture feature learning and CNN-based architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Vijay Pandey , Trapti Kalra , Mayank Gubba , Mohammed Faisal

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in image classification. With a growing number of classes, the accuracy usually drops as the possibilities of confusion increase. Interestingly, the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bilal Alsallakh , Amin Jourabloo , Mao Ye , Xiaoming Liu , Liu Ren

In this work, we investigate \textit{texture learning}: the identification of textures learned by object classification models, and the extent to which they rely on these textures. We build texture-object associations that uncover new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Blaine Hoak , Patrick McDaniel

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

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Feature preference in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classifiers is integral to their decision making process, and while the topic has been well studied, it is still not understood at a fundamental level. We test a range of task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Max Wolff , Stuart Wolff

Training dataset biases are by far the most scrutinized factors when explaining algorithmic biases of neural networks. In contrast, hyperparameters related to the neural network architecture have largely been ignored even though different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hao Liang , Josue Ortega Caro , Vikram Maheshri , Ankit B. Patel , Guha Balakrishnan

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on objects and scenes have shown intriguing ability to predict some response properties of visual cortical neurons. However, the factors and computations that give rise to such ability, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-11 Md Nasir Uddin Laskar , Luis G Sanchez Giraldo , Odelia Schwartz

Deep artificial neural networks have made remarkable progress in different tasks in the field of computer vision. However, the empirical analysis of these models and investigation of their failure cases has received attention recently. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Babak Saleh , Ahmed Elgammal , Jacob Feldman