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How can prior knowledge on the transformation invariances of a domain be incorporated into the architecture of a neural network? We propose Equivariant Transformers (ETs), a family of differentiable image-to-image mappings that improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Kai Sheng Tai , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

Rotation invariance is essential for precise, object-level segmentation in UAV aerial imagery, where targets can have arbitrary orientations and exhibit fine-scale details. Conventional segmentation architectures like U-Net rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Manduhu Manduhu , Alexander Dow , Gerard Dooly , James Riordan

In the recent application of scientific modeling, machine learning models are largely applied to facilitate computational simulations of fluid systems. Rotation symmetry is a general property for most symmetric fluid systems. However, in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Liyao Gao , Yifan Du , Hongshan Li , Guang Lin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved remarkable success in learning image representations allowing invariances in them - but therefore discarding transformation information that some computer vision tasks actually require.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qin Wang , Alessio Quercia , Benjamin Bruns , Abigail Morrison , Hanno Scharr , Kai Krajsek

The scattering transform is a multilayered wavelet-based deep learning architecture that acts as a model of convolutional neural networks. Recently, several works have introduced generalizations of the scattering transform for non-Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-30 Michael Perlmutter , Alexander Tong , Feng Gao , Guy Wolf , Matthew Hirn

The Symmetric group $S_{n}$ manifests itself in large classes of quantum systems as the invariance of certain characteristics of a quantum state with respect to permuting the qubits. The subgroups of $S_{n}$ arise, among many other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Sreetama Das , Filippo Caruso

Our universe is homogeneous and isotropic, and its perturbations obey translation and rotation symmetry. In this work we develop Translation and Rotation Equivariant Normalizing Flow (TRENF), a generative Normalizing Flow (NF) model which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Though widely used in image classification, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are prone to noise interruptions, i.e. the CNN output can be drastically changed by small image noise. To improve the noise robustness, we try to integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Qiufu Li , Linlin Shen , Sheng Guo , Zhihui Lai

We introduce Evenly Cascaded convolutional Network (ECN), a neural network taking inspiration from the cascade algorithm of wavelet analysis. ECN employs two feature streams - a low-level and high-level steam. At each layer these streams…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Chengxi Ye , Chinmaya Devaraj , Michael Maynord , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Progress towards the energy breakthroughs needed to combat climate change can be significantly accelerated through the efficient simulation of atomic systems. Simulation techniques based on first principles, such as Density Functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Muhammed Shuaibi , Adeesh Kolluru , Abhishek Das , Aditya Grover , Anuroop Sriram , Zachary Ulissi , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Rotation equivariance is a desirable property in many practical applications such as motion forecasting and 3D perception, where it can offer benefits like sample efficiency, better generalization, and robustness to input perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Serge Assaad , Carlton Downey , Rami Al-Rfou , Nigamaa Nayakanti , Ben Sapp

We introduce tensor field neural networks, which are locally equivariant to 3D rotations, translations, and permutations of points at every layer. 3D rotation equivariance removes the need for data augmentation to identify features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Nathaniel Thomas , Tess Smidt , Steven Kearnes , Lusann Yang , Li Li , Kai Kohlhoff , Patrick Riley

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently equivariant to translation. Efforts to embed other forms of equivariance have concentrated solely on rotation. We expand the notion of equivariance in CNNs through the Polar Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Carlos Esteves , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Xiaowei Zhou , Kostas Daniilidis

In this work, we focus on using convolution neural networks (CNN) to perform object recognition on the event data. In object recognition, it is important for a neural network to be robust to the variations of the data during testing. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Ziyun Wang

Automated segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image analysis and computer-assisted interventions. Despite the promising performance of existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they neglect useful equivariant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Jiazhen Zhang , Yuexi Du , Nicha C. Dvornek , John A. Onofrey

This paper presents an equivariant filter (EqF) transformation approach for visual--inertial navigation. By establishing analytical links between EqFs with different symmetries, the proposed approach enables systematic consistency design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chungeng Tian , Fenghua He , Ning Hao

When seeing a new object, humans can immediately recognize it across different retinal locations: we say that the internal object representation is invariant to translation. It is commonly believed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Valerio Biscione , Jeffrey Bowers

Stability is a key aspect of data analysis. In many applications, the natural notion of stability is geometric, as illustrated for example in computer vision. Scattering transforms construct deep convolutional representations which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro , Joan Bruna

Convolutional networks are successful due to their equivariance/invariance under translations. However, rotatable data such as images, volumes, shapes, or point clouds require processing with equivariance/invariance under rotations in cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Luca Della Libera , Vladimir Golkov , Yue Zhu , Arman Mielke , Daniel Cremers

Regular group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase model performance and improve equivariance to different geometrical symmetries. This work addresses the problem of SE(3), i.e., roto-translation equivariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Thijs P. Kuipers , Erik J. Bekkers