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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the cutting edge model for supervised machine learning in computer vision. In recent years CNNs have outperformed traditional approaches in many computer vision tasks such as object detection, image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Nitzan Guberman

Deep neural networks used in computer vision have been shown to exhibit many social biases such as gender bias. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision applications, outperforming Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Abhishek Mandal , Susan Leavy , Suzanne Little

Recent studies have shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to a small perturbation of input called "adversarial examples". In this work, we propose a new feedforward CNN that improves robustness in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Jonghoon Jin , Aysegul Dundar , Eugenio Culurciello

Texture, a significant visual attribute in images, has been extensively investigated across various image recognition applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which have been successful in many computer vision tasks, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Leonardo Scabini , Andre Sacilotti , Kallil M. Zielinski , Lucas C. Ribas , Bernard De Baets , Odemir M. Bruno

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

A clear understanding of where humans move in a scenario, their usual paths and speeds, and where they stop, is very important for different applications, such as mobility studies in urban areas or robot navigation tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Placido Falqueto , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luigi Palopoli , Daniele Fontanelli

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in image classification tasks; however, the choice between designing a custom CNN from scratch and employing established pre-trained architectures remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mohammed Sami Khan , Fabiha Muniat , Rowzatul Zannat

Deep convolutional neural networks are generally regarded as robust function approximators. So far, this intuition is based on perturbations to external stimuli such as the images to be classified. Here we explore the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Nicholas Cheney , Martin Schrimpf , Gabriel Kreiman

Several recent studies have demonstrated that attention-based networks, such as Vision Transformer (ViT), can outperform Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on several computer vision tasks without using convolutional layers. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shanda Li , Xiangning Chen , Di He , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Kidney stone classification from endoscopic images is critical for personalized treatment and recurrence prevention. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promise in this task, their limited ability to capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ivan Reyes-Amezcua , Francisco Lopez-Tiro , Clement Larose , Andres Mendez-Vazquez , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Christian Daul

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have revolutionized computer vision and are often advocated as good models of the human visual system. However, there are currently many shortcomings of DCNNs, which preclude them as a model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Harshitha Machiraju , Oh-Hyeon Choung , Pascal Frossard , Michael. H Herzog

Vision transformers (ViTs) are quickly becoming the de-facto architecture for computer vision, yet we understand very little about why they work and what they learn. While existing studies visually analyze the mechanisms of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Amin Ghiasi , Hamid Kazemi , Eitan Borgnia , Steven Reich , Manli Shu , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Tom Goldstein

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are powerful tools for graph-structured data. However, they have been recently shown to be vulnerable to topological attacks. To enhance adversarial robustness, we go beyond spectral graph theory to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ming Jin , Heng Chang , Wenwu Zhu , Somayeh Sojoudi

In recent years, representation learning approaches have disrupted many multimedia computing tasks. Among those approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have notably reached human level expertise on some constrained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Lucas Pascal , Xavier Bost , Benoît Huet

Recently, lightweight Vision Transformers (ViTs) demonstrate superior performance and lower latency, compared with lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), on resource-constrained mobile devices. Researchers have discovered many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been very successful for synthesizing the images in a given dataset. The artificially generated images by GANs are very realistic. The GANs have shown potential usability in several computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been an alternative design paradigm to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs, as it is sensitive to the training parameters, such as learning rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Hao Luo , Jingkai Zhou , Zhipeng Zhou , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Despite the remarkable success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across a wide range of vision tasks, recent studies have revealed that they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples, much like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). A common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaming Zhang , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elie Attias , Cengiz Pehlevan , Dina Obeid