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Recent research shows that for training with $\ell_2$ loss, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) whose width (number of channels in convolutional layers) goes to infinity correspond to regression with respect to the CNN Gaussian Process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zhiyuan Li , Ruosong Wang , Dingli Yu , Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sanjeev Arora

Deep convolutional neural networks achieve excellent image up-sampling performance. However, CNN-based methods tend to restore high-resolution results highly depending on traditional interpolations (e.g. bicubic). In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bolun Cai , Xiangmin Xu , Kailing Guo , Kui Jia , Dacheng Tao

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

We present an unsupervised learning approach for optical flow estimation by improving the upsampling and learning of pyramid network. We design a self-guided upsample module to tackle the interpolation blur problem caused by bilinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Kunming Luo , Chuan Wang , Shuaicheng Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Jue Wang , Jian Sun

Proper regularization is crucial in inverse problems to achieve high-quality reconstruction, even with an ill-conditioned measurement system. This is particularly true for three-dimensional photoacoustic tomography, which is computationally…

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We propose a new pipeline for optical flow computation, based on Deep Learning techniques. We suggest using a Siamese CNN to independently, and in parallel, compute the descriptors of both images. The learned descriptors are then compared…

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Convolution is one of the basic building blocks of CNN architectures. Despite its common use, standard convolution has two main shortcomings: Content-agnostic and Computation-heavy. Dynamic filters are content-adaptive, while further…

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Depthwise separable convolution has shown great efficiency in network design, but requires time-consuming training procedure with full training-set available. This paper first analyzes the mathematical relationship between regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Jianbo Guo , Yuxi Li , Weiyao Lin , Yurong Chen , Jianguo Li

Image inpainting has earned substantial progress, owing to the encoder-and-decoder pipeline, which is benefited from the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with convolutional downsampling to inpaint the masked regions semantically from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Biao Qian , Yong Rui , Meng Wang

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image and video generation, but sampling from state-of-the-art models requires expensive numerical integration of a generative ODE. One approach for tackling this problem is rectified flows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sangyun Lee , Zinan Lin , Giulia Fanti

While initially devised for image categorization, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being increasingly used for the pixelwise semantic labeling of images. However, the proper nature of the most common CNN architectures makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Emmanuel Maggiori , Guillaume Charpiat , Yuliya Tarabalka , Pierre Alliez

Generally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) process data on a regular grid, e.g. data generated by ordinary cameras. Designing CNNs for sparse and irregularly spaced input data is still an open research problem with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recently, very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in object recognition and have also been the first choice for dense classification problems such as semantic segmentation. However, repeated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Guosheng Lin , Anton Milan , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Normalizing flows are an essential alternative to GANs for generative modelling, which can be optimized directly on the maximum likelihood of the dataset. They also allow computation of the exact latent vector corresponding to an image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sandeep Nagar , Marius Dufraisse , Girish Varma

This thesis presents novel contributions in two primary areas: advancing the efficiency of generative models, particularly normalizing flows, and applying generative models to solve real-world computer vision challenges. The first part…

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Recently, the generalization behavior of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is gradually transparent through explanation techniques with the frequency components decomposition. However, the importance of the phase spectrum of the image for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Guangyao Chen , Peixi Peng , Li Ma , Jia Li , Lin Du , Yonghong Tian

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in image recognition. Although the internal patterns of the input images are effectively learned by the CNNs, these patterns only constitute a small proportion of useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengsu Chen , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Shaojie Tang

We reduce training time in convolutional networks (CNNs) with a method that, for some of the mini-batches: a) scales down the resolution of input images via downsampling, and b) reduces the forward pass operations via pooling on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zissis Poulos , Ali Nouri , Andreas Moshovos

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) use pooling to decrease the size of activation maps. This process is crucial to increase the receptive fields and to reduce computational requirements of subsequent convolutions. An important feature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe , Grigorios Kalliatakis

Super-resolution (SR) techniques based on deep learning have recently emerged as a promising approach to enhance the spatial resolution of computational fluid dynamics simulations while containing computational cost. In this paper, we…

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