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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on many visual recognition tasks. However, the combination of convolution and pooling operations only shows invariance to small local location changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Numerous studies have recently focused on incorporating different variations of equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In particular, rotation-equivariance has gathered significant attention due to its relevance in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Robin Ghyselinck , Valentin Delchevalerie , Bruno Dumas , Benoît Frénay

The roto-translation group SE2 has been of active interest in image analysis due to methods that lift the image data to multi-orientation representations defined on this Lie group. This has led to impactful applications of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Daan Bon , Gautam Pai , Gijs Bellaard , Olga Mula , Remco Duits

Digital histopathology slides are scanned and viewed under different magnifications and stored as images at different resolutions. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained on such images at a given scale fail to generalise to those at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yilong Yang , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Sasan Mahmoodi

We present a convolutional network that is equivariant to rigid body motions. The model uses scalar-, vector-, and tensor fields over 3D Euclidean space to represent data, and equivariant convolutions to map between such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Maurice Weiler , Mario Geiger , Max Welling , Wouter Boomsma , Taco Cohen

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

3D Convolutional Neural Networks are sensitive to transformations applied to their input. This is a problem because a voxelized version of a 3D object, and its rotated clone, will look unrelated to each other after passing through to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Worrall , Gabriel Brostow

Image-to-image translation (I2I) is a fundamental task in computer vision, focused on mapping an input image from a source domain to a corresponding image in a target domain while preserving domain-invariant features and adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Feiyu Tan , Heran Yang , Qihong Duan , Kai Ye , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

This article deals with approximating steady-state particle-resolved fluid flow around a fixed particle of interest under the influence of randomly distributed stationary particles in a dispersed multiphase setup using Convolutional Neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-25 Bhargav Sriram Siddani , S. Balachandar , Ruogu Fang

For many years, it has been shown how much exploiting equivariances can be beneficial when solving image analysis tasks. For example, the superiority of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) compared to dense networks mainly comes from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Valentin Delchevalerie , Alexandre Mayer , Adrien Bibal , Benoît Frénay

Spherical convolutional networks have been introduced recently as tools to learn powerful feature representations of 3D shapes. Spherical CNNs are equivariant to 3D rotations making them ideally suited to applications where 3D data may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Carlos Esteves , Avneesh Sud , Zhengyi Luo , Kostas Daniilidis , Ameesh Makadia

The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward

Convolutional networks are successful, but they have recently been outperformed by new neural networks that are equivariant under rotations and translations. These new networks work better because they do not struggle with learning each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Philip Müller , Vladimir Golkov , Valentina Tomassini , Daniel Cremers

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Despite the importance of image representations such as histograms of oriented gradients and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), our theoretical understanding of them remains limited. Aiming at filling this gap, we investigate three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Karel Lenc , Andrea Vedaldi

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Rotation invariance is essential for precise, object-level segmentation in UAV aerial imagery, where targets can have arbitrary orientations and exhibit fine-scale details. Conventional segmentation architectures like U-Net rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Manduhu Manduhu , Alexander Dow , Gerard Dooly , James Riordan

Convolutional networks are successful due to their equivariance/invariance under translations. However, rotatable data such as images, volumes, shapes, or point clouds require processing with equivariance/invariance under rotations in cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Luca Della Libera , Vladimir Golkov , Yue Zhu , Arman Mielke , Daniel Cremers

Automatic tumor or lesion segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quan Z. Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhenmei Yu

Incorporating group symmetry directly into the learning process has proved to be an effective guideline for model design. By producing features that are guaranteed to transform covariantly to the group actions on the inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Liyao Gao , Guang Lin , Wei Zhu