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We introduce the concept of compressed convolution, a technique to convolve a given data set with a large number of non-orthogonal kernels. In typical applications our technique drastically reduces the effective number of computations. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 F. Elsner , B. D. Wandelt

Designing a convolution for a spherical neural network requires a delicate tradeoff between efficiency and rotation equivariance. DeepSphere, a method based on a graph representation of the sampled sphere, strikes a controllable balance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Michaël Defferrard , Martino Milani , Frédérick Gusset , Nathanaël Perraudin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), in a few decades, have outperformed the existing state of the art methods in classification context. However, in the way they were formalised, CNNs are bound to operate on euclidean spaces. Indeed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Chloé Martineau , Romain Raveaux , Donatello Conte , Gilles Venturini

Applying convolutional neural networks to spherical images requires particular considerations. We look to the millennia of work on cartographic map projections to provide the tools to define an optimal representation of spherical images for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Marc Eder , Jan-Michael Frahm

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are extremely efficient, since they exploit the inherent translation-invariance of natural images. However, translation is just one of a myriad of useful spatial transformations. Can the same efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

Warped convolutions of operators were recently introduced in the algebraic framework of quantum physics as a new constructive tool. It is shown here that these convolutions provide isometric representations of Rieffel's strict deformations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-22 Detlev Buchholz , Gandalf Lechner , Stephen J. Summers

The rapid and accurate evaluation of convolutions with singular kernels plays crucial roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. Building on the recently introduced Truncated Fourier Filtering method for smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Oscar Bruno , Jinghao Cao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successful in processing data signals that are uniformly sampled in the spatial domain (e.g., images). However, most data signals do not natively exist on a grid, and in the process of being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Dequan Wang , Jingwei Huang , Philip Marcus , Matthias Nießner

Spherical CNNs generalize CNNs to functions on the sphere, by using spherical convolutions as the main linear operation. The most accurate and efficient way to compute spherical convolutions is in the spectral domain (via the convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carlos Esteves , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Ameesh Makadia

A simple framework for Dirac spinors is developed that parametrizes admissible quantum dynamics and also analytically constructs electromagnetic fields, obeying Maxwell's equations, which yield a desired evolution. In particular, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Andre G. Campos , Renan Cabrera , Herschel A. Rabitz , Denys I. Bondar

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) constructed natively on the sphere have been developed recently and shown to be highly effective for the analysis of spherical data. While an efficient framework has been formulated, spherical CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jason D. McEwen , Christopher G. R. Wallis , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker

We present a rotation-equivariant unsupervised learning framework for the sparse deconvolution of non-negative scalar fields defined on the unit sphere. Spherical signals with multiple peaks naturally arise in Diffusion MRI (dMRI), where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Axel Elaldi , Neel Dey , Heejong Kim , Guido Gerig

In this paper, the projective geometry is used to describe the features of spherical manifold and discreteness in quantum evolution. As a system evolves in time the state vector changes and it traces out a curve in Hilbert space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aalok Pandya , Ashok K. Nagawat

In this article, we introduce and study the concept of $\textit{spherical-vectors}$, which can be perceived as a natural extension of the arguments of complex numbers in the context of quaternions. We initially establish foundational…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Lahcen Lamgouni

The task of reflection symmetry detection remains challenging due to significant variations and ambiguities of symmetry patterns in the wild. Furthermore, since the local regions are required to match in reflection for detecting a symmetry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ahyun Seo , Woohyeon Shim , Minsu Cho

We extend the classical deconvolution framework in Rn to the case with a pseudodifferential-like solution operator with a symbol depending on both the base and cotangent variable. Our framework enables deconvolution with spatially varying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Mirza Karamehmedović , Pierre Maréchal , Martin Sæbye Carøe , Lara Baalbaki

We present a new representation of harmonic sounds that linearizes the dynamics of pitch and spectral envelope, while remaining stable to deformations in the time-frequency plane. It is an instance of the scattering transform, a generic…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Vincent Lostanlen , Stéphane Mallat

Recent work introduced a unified framework for steerable and directional wavelets in two and three dimensions that ensures many desirable properties, such as a multi-scale structure, fast transforms, and a flexible angular localization. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Christian Lessig

State-of-the-art 2D image compression schemes rely on the power of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs offer promising perspectives for 2D image compression, extending such models to omnidirectional images is not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Navid Mahmoudian Bidgoli , Roberto G. de A. Azevedo , Thomas Maugey , Aline Roumy , Pascal Frossard