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In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yulong Yang , Felix O'Mahony , Christine Allen-Blanchette

A wide range of techniques have been proposed in recent years for designing neural networks for 3D data that are equivariant under rotation and translation of the input. Most approaches for equivariance under the Euclidean group…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Adrien Poulenard , Maks Ovsjanikov , Leonidas J. Guibas

Invariance under symmetry is an important problem in machine learning. Our paper looks specifically at equivariant neural networks where transformations of inputs yield homomorphic transformations of outputs. Here, steerable CNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daniel Franzen , Michael Wand

3D Convolutional Neural Networks are sensitive to transformations applied to their input. This is a problem because a voxelized version of a 3D object, and its rotated clone, will look unrelated to each other after passing through to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Worrall , Gabriel Brostow

Synthetic Aperture Vector Flow Imaging (SA-VFI) can visualize complex cardiac and vascular blood flow patterns at high temporal resolution with a large field of view. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly used in image and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Thomas Robins , Antonio Stanziola , Kai Reimer , Peter Weinberg , Meng-Xing Tang

Group equivariant neural networks have been explored in the past few years and are interesting from theoretical and practical standpoints. They leverage concepts from group representation theory, non-commutative harmonic analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Carlos Esteves

We focus on a convolutional neural network (CNN), which has recently been utilized for fluid flow analyses, from the perspective on the influence of various operations inside it by considering some canonical regression problems with fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-18 Masaki Morimoto , Kai Fukami , Kai Zhang , Aditya G. Nair , Koji Fukagata

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

Normalizing flows (NFs) provide a powerful tool to construct an expressive distribution by a sequence of trackable transformations of a base distribution and form a probabilistic model of underlying data. Rotation, as an important quantity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yulin Liu , Haoran Liu , Yingda Yin , Yang Wang , Baoquan Chen , He Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used over many areas in compute vision. Especially in classification. Recently, FlowNet and several works on opti- cal estimation using CNNs shows the potential ability of CNNs in doing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Junxuan Li

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Taco S. Cohen , Maurice Weiler , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Max Welling

The fast and accurate prediction of unsteady flow becomes a serious challenge in fluid dynamics, due to the high-dimensional and nonlinear characteristics. A novel hybrid deep neural network (DNN) architecture was designed to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Renkun Han , Yixing Wang , Yang Zhang , Gang Chen

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

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

The translational equivariant nature of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a reason for its great success in computer vision. However, networks do not enjoy more general equivariance properties such as rotation or scaling, ultimately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zikai Sun , Thierry Blu

The immense computational cost of simulating turbulence has motivated the use of machine learning approaches for super-resolving turbulent flows. A central challenge is ensuring that learned models respect physical symmetries, such as…

Spherical convolutional networks have been introduced recently as tools to learn powerful feature representations of 3D shapes. Spherical CNNs are equivariant to 3D rotations making them ideally suited to applications where 3D data may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Carlos Esteves , Avneesh Sud , Zhengyi Luo , Kostas Daniilidis , Ameesh Makadia

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning unstructured mesh-based simulations of physical systems, including fluid dynamics. In tandem, geometric deep learning principles have informed the development of equivariant…