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Capsule Network (CapsNet) is among the promising classifiers and a possible successor of the classifiers built based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet is more accurate than CNNs in detecting images with overlapping categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

In this paper, we propose a capsule-based neural network model to solve the semantic segmentation problem. By taking advantage of the extractable part-whole dependencies available in capsule layers, we derive the probabilities of the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tao Sun , Zhewei Wang , C. D. Smith , Jundong Liu

Capsule networks are a neural network architecture specialized for visual scene recognition. Features and pose information are extracted from a scene and then dynamically routed through a hierarchy of vector-valued nodes called 'capsules'…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-07 Alex B. Kiefer , Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

Capsule networks promise significant benefits over convolutional networks by storing stronger internal representations, and routing information based on the agreement between intermediate representations' projections. Despite this, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rodney Lalonde , Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful class of deep learning architectures, known for robust performance with relatively few parameters compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, their inherent efficiency is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Miles Everett , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Neural networks designed for the task of classification have become a commodity in recent years. Many works target the development of more effective networks, which results in a complexification of their architectures with more layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 A. Deliege , A. Cioppa , M. Van Droogenbroeck

A capsule is a group of neurons whose activity vector represents the instantiation parameters of a specific type of entity such as an object or an object part. We use the length of the activity vector to represent the probability that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sara Sabour , Nicholas Frosst , Geoffrey E Hinton

We present a deformable prototypical part network (Deformable ProtoPNet), an interpretable image classifier that integrates the power of deep learning and the interpretability of case-based reasoning. This model classifies input images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jon Donnelly , Alina Jade Barnett , Chaofan Chen

This work makes a substantial step in the field of split computing, i.e., how to split a deep neural network to host its early part on an embedded device and the rest on a server. So far, potential split locations have been identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Federico Cunico , Luigi Capogrosso , Francesco Setti , Damiano Carra , Franco Fummi , Marco Cristani

Image classification is one of the most important areas in computer vision. Hierarchical multi-label classification applies when a multi-class image classification problem is arranged into smaller ones based upon a hierarchy or taxonomy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Khondaker Tasrif Noor , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Brano Kusy

A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hongyang Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Capsules are the multidimensional analogue to scalar neurons in neural networks, and because they are multidimensional, much more complex routing schemes can be used to pass information forward through the network than what can be used in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Hauser

In this paper, we formalize the idea behind capsule nets of using a capsule vector rather than a neuron activation to predict the label of samples. To this end, we propose to learn a group of capsule subspaces onto which an input feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Liheng Zhang , Marzieh Edraki , Guo-Jun Qi

Classifying images with an interpretable decision-making process is a long-standing problem in computer vision. In recent years, Prototypical Part Networks has gained traction as an approach for self-explainable neural networks, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhijie Zhu , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Interpreting a large number of neurons in deep learning is difficult. Our proposed `CLAssifier-DECoder' architecture (ClaDec) facilitates the understanding of the output of an arbitrary layer of neurons or subsets thereof. It uses a decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Johannes Schneider , Michail Vlachos

Capsule networks (see e.g. Hinton et al., 2018) aim to encode knowledge and reason about the relationship between an object and its parts. In this paper we specify a \emph{generative} model for such data, and derive a variational algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Alfredo Nazabal , Nikolaos Tsagkas , Christopher K. I. Williams

How to aggregate information from multiple instances is a key question multiple instance learning. Prior neural models implement different variants of the well-known encoder-decoder strategy according to which all input features are encoded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Markus Zopf

With the growth of deep learning, how to describe deep neural networks unifiedly is becoming an important issue. We first formalize neural networks mathematically with their directed graph representations, and prove a generation theorem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yujian Li , Chuanhui Shan

We present a framework for learning disentangled representation of CapsNet by information bottleneck constraint that distills information into a compact form and motivates to learn an interpretable factorized capsule. In our $\beta$-CapsNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ming-fei Hu , Jian-wei Liu

Interpreting and explaining the behavior of deep neural networks is critical for many tasks. Explainable AI provides a way to address this challenge, mostly by providing per-pixel relevance to the decision. Yet, interpreting such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara