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A rigid-motion scattering computes adaptive invariants along translations and rotations, with a deep convolutional network. Convolutions are calculated on the rigid-motion group, with wavelets defined on the translation and rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Laurent SIfre , Stéphane Mallat

This paper proposes a set of rules to revise various neural networks for 3D point cloud processing to rotation-equivariant quaternion neural networks (REQNNs). We find that when a neural network uses quaternion features under certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Wen Shen , Binbin Zhang , Shikun Huang , Zhihua Wei , Quanshi Zhang

The purpose of this short and simple note is to clarify a common misconception about convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs are made up of convolutional layers which are shift equivariant due to weight sharing. However, convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nick McGreivy , Ammar Hakim

Equivariant neural networks (ENNs) are graph neural networks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and are well suited for predicting molecular properties. The ENN library e3nn has customizable convolutions, which can be designed to depend only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Mario Geiger , Tess E. Smidt , Frank Noé

This paper introduces a novel deep neural network architecture for solving the inverse scattering problem in frequency domain with wide-band data, by directly approximating the inverse map, thus avoiding the expensive optimization loop of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Borong Zhang , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Qin Li

Many problems across computer vision and the natural sciences require the analysis of spherical data, for which representations may be learned efficiently by encoding equivariance to rotational symmetries. We present a generalized spherical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Oliver J. Cobb , Christopher G. R. Wallis , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker , Augustin Marignier , Matthew A. Price , Mayeul d'Avezac , Jason D. McEwen

Image registration is a fundamental task that aligns anatomical structures between images. While CNNs perform well, they lack rotation equivariance - a rotated input does not produce a correspondingly rotated output. This hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arghavan Rezvani , Kun Han , Anthony T. Wu , Pooya Khosravi , Xiaohui Xie

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

Rotation invariance has been studied in the computer vision community primarily in the context of small in-plane rotations. This is usually achieved by building invariant image features. However, the problem of achieving invariance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lokesh Boominathan , Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

Incorporating either rotation equivariance or scale equivariance into CNNs has proved to be effective in improving models' generalization performance. However, jointly integrating rotation and scale equivariance into CNNs has not been…

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

Self-supervised image denoising methods have garnered significant research attention in recent years, for this kind of method reduces the requirement of large training datasets. Compared to supervised methods, self-supervised methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hanze Liu , Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

We propose a novel visual context-aware filter generation module which incorporates contextual information present in images into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to traditional CNNs, we do not employ the same set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Suraj Tripathi , Abhay Kumar , Chirag Singh

We propose a framework for rotation and translation covariant deep learning using $SE(2)$ group convolutions. The group product of the special Euclidean motion group $SE(2)$ describes how a concatenation of two roto-translations results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Erik J Bekkers , Maxime W Lafarge , Mitko Veta , Koen AJ Eppenhof , Josien PW Pluim , Remco Duits

Recent years have seen a surge in data-driven surrogates for dynamical systems that can be orders of magnitude faster than numerical solvers. However, many machine learning-based models such as neural operators exhibit spectral bias,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xuesong Wang , Michael Groom , Rafael Oliveira , He Zhao , Terence O'Kane , Edwin V. Bonilla

In this paper we construct and theoretically analyse group equivariant convolutional kernel networks (CKNs) which are useful in understanding the geometry of (equivariant) CNNs through the lens of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Soutrik Roy Chowdhury

In this paper we propose integrating a priori knowledge into both design and training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn object representations that are invariant to affine transformations (i.e., translation, scale, rotation).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xenju Xu , Guanghui Wang , Alan Sullivan , Ziming Zhang

Vision transformers have gained significant attention and achieved state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, including image classification, instance segmentation, and object detection. However, challenges remain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Badri N. Patro , Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

Convolutional neural networks owe much of their success to hard-coding translation equivariance. Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been proposed as near-term quantum analogues, but the relevant notion of translation depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Chirkov , Igor Lobanov