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Many data symmetries can be described in terms of group equivariance and the most common way of encoding group equivariances in neural networks is by building linear layers that are group equivariant. In this work we investigate whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Georg Bökman , Fredrik Kahl

Recent improvements in generative adversarial visual synthesis incorporate real and fake image transformation in a self-supervised setting, leading to increased stability and perceptual fidelity. However, these approaches typically involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Neel Dey , Antong Chen , Soheil Ghafurian

We propose a method for inferring human attributes (such as gender, hair style, clothes style, expression, action) from images of people under large variation of viewpoint, pose, appearance, articulation and occlusion. Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Ning Zhang , Manohar Paluri , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Trevor Darrell , Lubomir Bourdev

Little is known about the training dynamics of equivariant neural networks, in particular how it compares to data augmented training of their non-equivariant counterparts. Recently, neural tangent kernels (NTKs) have emerged as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Philipp Misof , Pan Kessel , Jan E. Gerken

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of computer vision tasks, particularly visual classification problems, where new algorithms reported to achieve or even surpass the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Hossein Hosseini , Baicen Xiao , Mayoore Jaiswal , Radha Poovendran

In this paper we propose cross-modal convolutional neural networks (X-CNNs), a novel biologically inspired type of CNN architectures, treating gradient descent-specialised CNNs as individual units of processing in a larger-scale network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-26 Petar Veličković , Duo Wang , Nicholas D. Lane , Pietro Liò

Group convolutional layers with respect to some group $G$ are modeled by convolutions or cross-correlations with a filter, and they provide the fundamental building block for group convolutional neural networks. For entirely unconstrained…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Benedikt Fluhr

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successful in processing data signals that are uniformly sampled in the spatial domain (e.g., images). However, most data signals do not natively exist on a grid, and in the process of being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Dequan Wang , Jingwei Huang , Philip Marcus , Matthias Nießner

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have gained great popularity in tackling various analytics tasks on graph and network data. However, some recent studies raise concerns about whether GCNs can optimally integrate node features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xiao Wang , Meiqi Zhu , Deyu Bo , Peng Cui , Chuan Shi , Jian Pei

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) perform very well in image classification and object detection in recent years, but even the most advanced models have limited rotation invariance. Known solutions include the enhancement of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Zongbo Hao , Tao Zhang , Mingwang Chen , Kaixu Zhou

The conventional CNN, widely used for two-dimensional images, however, is not directly applicable to non-regular geometric surface, such as a cortical thickness. We propose Geometric CNN (gCNN) that deals with data representation over a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Si-Baek Seong , Chongwon Pae , Hae-Jeong Park

Given large datasets and sufficient compute, is it beneficial to design neural architectures for the structure and symmetries of each problem? Or is it more efficient to learn them from data? We study empirically how equivariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Johann Brehmer , Sönke Behrends , Pim de Haan , Taco Cohen

Color is a crucial visual cue readily exploited by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for object recognition. However, CNNs struggle if there is data imbalance between color variations introduced by accidental recording conditions. Color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Attila Lengyel , Ombretta Strafforello , Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Alexander Gielisse , Jan van Gemert

Data arrives at our senses as a continuous stream, smoothly transforming from one instant to the next. These smooth transformations can be viewed as continuous symmetries of the environment that we inhabit, defining equivalence relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 T. Anderson Keller

Histology images are inherently symmetric under rotation, where each orientation is equally as likely to appear. However, this rotational symmetry is not widely utilised as prior knowledge in modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Simon Graham , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

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

Convolutional neural networks have been extremely successful in the image recognition domain because they ensure equivariance to translations. There have been many recent attempts to generalize this framework to other domains, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Risi Kondor , Shubhendu Trivedi

Automatic tumor segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis. Although the existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Shuchao Pang , Anan Du , Mehmet A. Orgun , Yan Wang , Quanzheng Sheng , Shoujin Wang , Xiaoshui Huang , Zhemei Yu