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The insideness problem is an aspect of image segmentation that consists of determining which pixels are inside and outside a region. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in segmentation benchmarks, but it is unclear if they have the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kimberly Villalobos , Vilim Štih , Amineh Ahmadinejad , Shobhita Sundaram , Jamell Dozier , Andrew Francl , Frederico Azevedo , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become an important tool for image classification with many applications in research and industry. However, it remains largely unknown how relevant image features are selected and how data properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Marcell Wolnitza , Babette Dellen

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has enabled significant performance gains in the field of natural language processing. However, recent studies have found that LLMs often resort to shortcuts when performing tasks, creating an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Geetanjali Bihani , Julia Taylor Rayz

Neural networks often rely on spurious shortcuts for many epochs before discovering structured representations. However, the mechanism governing when this transition occurs and whether its timing can be predicted remains unclear. Prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Truong Xuan Khanh , Truong Quynh Hoa

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for brain imaging. Deep learning (DL) algorithms have been proposed to aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) from MRI scans. However, DL algorithms can suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Akshit Achara , Esther Puyol Anton , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King

We devise deep nearest centroids (DNC), a conceptually elegant yet surprisingly effective network for large-scale visual recognition, by revisiting Nearest Centroids, one of the most classic and simple classifiers. Current deep models learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wenguan Wang , Cheng Han , Tianfei Zhou , Dongfang Liu

Deeply learned representations are the state-of-the-art descriptors for face recognition methods. These representations encode latent features that are difficult to explain, compromising the confidence and interpretability of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Matheus Alves Diniz , William Robson Schwartz

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) perform significantly better than shallow networks and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) on large vocabulary speech recognition tasks. In this paper, we argue that the improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Dong Yu , Michael L. Seltzer , Jinyu Li , Jui-Ting Huang , Frank Seide

Given the success of the deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in applications of visual recognition and classification, it would be tantalizing to test if DCNNs can also learn spatial concepts, such as straightness, convexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Xi Zhang , Xiaolin Wu , Jun Du

Place recognition is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, and has become a key part in mobile robotics and autonomous driving applications for performing loop closure in visual SLAM systems. Moreover, the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Ruben Gomez-Ojeda , Manuel Lopez-Antequera , Nicolai Petkov , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

In graph classification, attention and pooling-based graph neural networks (GNNs) prevail to extract the critical features from the input graph and support the prediction. They mostly follow the paradigm of learning to attend, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yongduo Sui , Xiang Wang , Jiancan Wu , Min Lin , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

In self-supervised visual representation learning, a feature extractor is trained on a "pretext task" for which labels can be generated cheaply, without human annotation. A central challenge in this approach is that the feature extractor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Matthias Minderer , Olivier Bachem , Neil Houlsby , Michael Tschannen

Modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to achieve human-level object classification accuracy on specific tasks, and currently outperform competing models in explaining complex human visual representations. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Joshua C. Peterson , Paul Soulos , Aida Nematzadeh , Thomas L. Griffiths

Understanding what kinds of cooperative structures deep neural networks (DNNs) can represent remains a fundamental yet insufficiently understood problem. In this work, we treat interactions as the fundamental units of such structure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Huiqi Deng , Qihan Ren , Zhuofan Chen , Zhenyuan Cui , Wen Shen , Peng Zhang , Hongbin Pei , Quanshi Zhang

Deep learning models are prone to learning shortcut solutions to problems using spuriously correlated yet irrelevant features of their training data. In high-risk applications such as medical image analysis, this phenomenon may prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Christopher Boland , Sotirios Tsaftaris , Sonia Dahdouh

We consider the task of learning a classifier for semantic segmentation using weak supervision in the form of image labels which specify the object classes present in the image. Our method uses deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Qinbin Hou , Puneet Kumar Dokania , Daniela Massiceti , Yunchao Wei , Ming-Ming Cheng , Philip Torr

Machine learning models have been found to learn shortcuts -- unintended decision rules that are unable to generalize -- undermining models' reliability. Previous works address this problem under the tenuous assumption that only a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhiheng Li , Ivan Evtimov , Albert Gordo , Caner Hazirbas , Tal Hassner , Cristian Canton Ferrer , Chenliang Xu , Mark Ibrahim

One of the methods used in image recognition is the Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). DCNN is a model in which the expressive power of features is greatly improved by deepening the hidden layer of CNN. The architecture of CNNs is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Genta Kobayashi , Hayaru Shouno

Deep learning networks excel at classification, yet identifying minimal architectures that reliably solve a task remains challenging. We present a computational methodology for systematically exploring and analyzing the relationships among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) achieved state-of-the-art performance on several computer vision tasks. However, the one typical drawback of these DNNs is the requirement of massive labeled data. Even though few-shot learning…

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