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Learning internal representations from data using no or few labels is useful for machine learning research, as it allows using massive amounts of unlabeled data. In this work, we use the Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated great results for the single-image super-resolution (SISR) problem. Currently, most CNN algorithms promote deep and computationally expensive models to solve SISR. However, we propose a…
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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…
Deep neural networks need a big amount of training data, while in the real world there is a scarcity of data available for training purposes. To resolve this issue unsupervised methods are used for training with limited data. In this…
In this study, we propose the integration of competitive learning into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to improve the representation learning and efficiency of fine-tuning. Conventional CNNs use back propagation learning, and it…
Most modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used for object recognition are built using the same principles: Alternating convolution and max-pooling layers followed by a small number of fully connected layers. We re-evaluate the state…
Recent years have witnessed the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) based models in the field of computer vision. CNN is able to learn hierarchically abstracted features from images in an end-to-end training manner. However,…
In this study, we use a self-explaining neural network (SENN), which learns unsupervised concepts, to acquire concepts that are easy for people to understand automatically. In concept learning, the hidden layer retains verbalizable features…
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We present a system comprising a hybridization of self-organized map (SOM) properties with spiking neural networks (SNNs) that retain many of the features of SOMs. Networks are trained in an unsupervised manner to learn a self-organized…
Recently, self-supervised learning has attracted attention due to its remarkable ability to acquire meaningful representations for classification tasks without using semantic labels. This paper introduces a self-supervised learning…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), regarded as the third generation of neural networks, emulate the brain's information processing with unparalleled biological plausibility compared to traditional neural networks. However, their non-linear,…
Autonomous Raman instruments on Mars rovers, deep-sea landers, and field robots must interpret raw spectra distorted by fluorescence baselines, peak shifts, and limited ground-truth labels. Using curated subsets of the RRUFF database, we…
In the last two years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved an impressive suite of results on standard recognition datasets and tasks. CNN-based features seem poised to quickly replace engineered representations, such as SIFT…
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful computer vision systems to solve object recognition. Furthermore, CNNs have major applications in understanding the nature of visual representations in the human brain. Yet…