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In this work, we investigate the following: 1) how the routing affects the CapsNet model fitting; 2) how the representation using capsules helps discover global structures in data distribution, and; 3) how the learned data representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ancheng Lin , Jun Li , Zhenyuan Ma

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that have recently gained increased popularity. They consist of groups of neurons, called capsules, which encode properties of objects or object parts. The connections between capsules encrypt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Josef Gugglberger , David Peer , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to embed object transformations. That is highly inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Marcello Chiaberge

This study develops an unsupervised learning algorithm for products of expert capsules with dynamic routing. Analogous to binary-valued neurons in Restricted Boltzmann Machines, the magnitude of a squashed capsule firing takes values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Michael Hauser

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that identify image parts and form the instantiation parameters of a whole hierarchically. The goal behind the network is to perform an inverse computer graphics task, and the network parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Saeid Abbassi , Kamaledin Ghiasi-Shirazi , Ahad Harati

Capsule networks are biologically inspired neural networks that group neurons into vectors called capsules, each explicitly representing an object or one of its parts. The routing mechanism connects capsules in consecutive layers, forming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Riccardo Renzulli , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

We present a method for fast inference in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) by taking advantage of a key insight regarding the routing coefficients that link capsules between adjacent network layers. Since the routing coefficients are responsible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhen Zhao , Ashley Kleinhans , Gursharan Sandhu , Ishan Patel , K. P. Unnikrishnan

This paper presents an empirical exploration of the use of capsule networks for text classification. While it has been shown that capsule networks are effective for image classification, their validity in the domain of text has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jaeyoung Kim , Sion Jang , Sungchul Choi , Eunjeong Park

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

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 (CapsNets) are capable of modeling visual hierarchical relationships, which is achieved by the "routing-by-agreement" mechanism. This paper proposes a pairwise agreement mechanism to build capsules, inspired by the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Lei Zhao , Xiaohui Wang , Lei Huang

Capsule Network is a promising concept in deep learning, yet its true potential is not fully realized thus far, providing sub-par performance on several key benchmark datasets with complex data. Drawing intuition from the success achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Vinoj Jayasundara , Sandaru Jayasekara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Suranga Seneviratne , Ranga Rodrigo

CapsNet (Capsule Network) was first proposed by~\citet{capsule} and later another version of CapsNet was proposed by~\citet{emrouting}. CapsNet has been proved effective in modeling spatial features with much fewer parameters. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Zhenhua Chen , David Crandall

Capsule networks use routing algorithms to flow information between consecutive layers. In the existing routing procedures, capsules produce predictions (termed votes) for capsules of the next layer. In a nutshell, the next-layer capsule's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhihao Zhao , Samuel Cheng

In recent years, the CNNs have achieved great successes in the image processing tasks, e.g., image recognition and object detection. Unfortunately, traditional CNN's classification is found to be easily misled by increasingly complex image…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xingyao Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Chenhao Xie , Jing Wang , Weigong Zhang , Xin Fu

Capsule networks (CapsNets) were introduced to address convolutional neural networks limitations, learning object-centric representations that are more robust, pose-aware, and interpretable. They organize neurons into groups called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Riccardo Renzulli

This project considers Capsule Networks, a recently introduced machine learning model that has shown promising results regarding generalization and preservation of spatial information with few parameters. The Capsule Network's inner routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Gonçalo Faria

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve translational invariance by using pooling operations. However, the operations do not preserve the spatial relationships in the learned representations. Hence, CNNs cannot extrapolate to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Capsule networks, which incorporate the paradigms of connectionism and symbolism, have brought fresh insights into artificial intelligence. The capsule, as the building block of capsule networks, is a group of neurons represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Zidu Liu , Pei-Xin Shen , Weikang Li , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

Building on recent work on capsule networks, we propose a new, general-purpose form of "routing by agreement" that activates output capsules in a layer as a function of their net benefit to use and net cost to ignore input capsules from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Franz A. Heinsen