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In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for learning multi-scale feature representations with good tradeoffs between speed and accuracy. This is achieved by using a multi-branch network, which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Neil Mallinar , Tom Sercu , Rogerio Feris

Semi-supervised learning algorithms typically construct a weighted graph of data points to represent a manifold. However, an explicit graph representation is problematic for neural networks operating in the online setting. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alexander Genkin , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri Chklovskii

We consider whether deep convolutional networks (CNNs) can represent decision functions with similar accuracy as recurrent networks such as LSTMs. First, we show that a deep CNN with an architecture inspired by the models recently…

We introduce the Cooperative Network Architecture (CNA), a model that represents sensory signals using structured, recurrently connected networks of neurons, termed "nets." Nets are dynamically assembled from overlapping net fragments,…

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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success for single image super-resolution (SISR) task due to their powerful feature representation capabilities. The most recent deep learning based SISR methods focus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Rao Muhammad Umer , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

In visual recognition tasks, such as image classification, unsupervised learning exploits cheap unlabeled data and can help to solve these tasks more efficiently. We show that the recursive autoconvolution operator, adopted from physics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Boris Knyazev , Erhardt Barth , Thomas Martinetz

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based filters have achieved significant performance in video artifacts reduction. However, the high complexity of existing methods makes it difficult to be applied in real usage. In this paper, a CNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Chao Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto , Xiaoyang Zeng , Yibo Fan

Over the last years, deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have transformed the field of computer vision thanks to their unparalleled capacity to learn high level semantic image features. However, in order to successfully learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Spyros Gidaris , Praveer Singh , Nikos Komodakis

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

Sheaf diffusion has recently emerged as a promising design pattern for graph representation learning due to its inherent ability to handle heterophilic data and avoid oversmoothing. Meanwhile, cooperative message passing has also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 André Ribeiro , Ana Luiza Tenório , Juan Belieni , Amauri H. Souza , Diego Mesquita

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Incorporating heterogeneous representations from different architectures has facilitated various vision tasks, e.g., some hybrid networks combine transformers and convolutions. However, complementarity between such heterogeneous…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are typically constructed by stacking multiple building blocks, each of which contains a normalization layer such as batch normalization (BN) and a rectified linear function such as ReLU. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenqi Shao , Shitao Tang , Xingang Pan , Ping Tan , Xiaogang Wang , Ping Luo

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields, particularly in the domain of computer vision. However, why this architecture works well remains to be a mystery. In this work we move a small step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Bing Yu , Junzhao Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deep learning frameworks which are well-known for their notable performance in classification tasks. Hence, many skeleton-based action recognition and segmentation (SBARS) algorithms benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Babak Hosseini , Romain Montagne , Barbara Hammer

Continual Learning aims to bring machine learning into a more realistic scenario, where tasks are learned sequentially and the i.i.d. assumption is not preserved. Although this setting is natural for biological systems, it proves very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Paweł Morawiecki , Andrii Krutsylo , Maciej Wołczyk , Marek Śmieja

We present a method for learning discriminative filters using a shallow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We encode rotation invariance directly in the model by tying the weights of groups of filters to several rotated versions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Devis Tuia

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

In the past few years, convolutional neural nets (CNN) have shown incredible promise for learning visual representations. In this paper, we use CNNs for the task of predicting surface normals from a single image. But what is the right…

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