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Autoencoders represent an effective approach for computing the underlying factors characterizing datasets of different types. The latent representation of autoencoders have been studied in the context of enabling interpolation between data…

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Image registration is a fundamental task that aligns anatomical structures between images. While CNNs perform well, they lack rotation equivariance - a rotated input does not produce a correspondingly rotated output. This hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arghavan Rezvani , Kun Han , Anthony T. Wu , Pooya Khosravi , Xiaohui Xie

While end-to-end approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many perception tasks, they are not yet able to compete with 3D geometry-based methods in pose estimation. Moreover, absolute pose regression has been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mohamed Adel Musallam , Vincent Gaudilliere , Miguel Ortiz del Castillo , Kassem Al Ismaeil , Djamila Aouada

We introduce an unsupervised feature learning approach that embeds 3D shape information into a single-view image representation. The main idea is a self-supervised training objective that, given only a single 2D image, requires all unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Dinesh Jayaraman , Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

In this work we investigate how to achieve equivariance to input transformations in deep networks, purely from data, without being given a model of those transformations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example, are equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianbo Jiao , João F. Henriques

In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown great success in various tasks related to inverse problems, where a target quantity of interest can only be observed through indirect measurements by a forward operator. Common approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Matthias Beckmann , Nick Heilenkötter

Spatiotemporal prediction aims to generate future sequences by paradigms learned from historical contexts. It is essential in numerous domains, such as traffic flow prediction and weather forecasting. Recently, research in this field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wenxuan Zhang , Xuechao Zou , Li Wu , Xiaoying Wang , Jianqiang Huang , Junliang Xing

We introduce an unsupervised technique for encoding point clouds into a canonical shape representation, by disentangling shape and pose. Our encoder is stable and consistent, meaning that the shape encoding is purely pose-invariant, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Oren Katzir , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Anomaly detection in medical images is an important yet challenging task due to the diversity of possible anomalies and the practical impossibility of collecting comprehensively annotated data sets. In this work, we tackle unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Francesco Dalmonte , Emirhan Bayar , Emre Akbas , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu

This paper proposes a theoretical framework on the mechanism of autoencoders. To the encoder part, under the main use of dimensionality reduction, we investigate its two fundamental properties: bijective maps and data disentangling. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Changcun Huang

Incorporating inductive biases is a promising approach for tackling challenging robot learning domains with sample-efficient solutions. This paper identifies partially observable domains where symmetries can be a useful inductive bias for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hai Nguyen , Andrea Baisero , David Klee , Dian Wang , Robert Platt , Christopher Amato

Simulating collisions of deformable objects is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the complexity of modeling solid mechanics and multi-body interactions. Existing data-driven methods often suffer from lack of equivariance to physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Qianyi Chen , Tianrun Gao , Chenbo Jiang , Tailin Wu

In this paper a semi-supervised deep framework is proposed for the problem of 3D shape inverse rendering from a single 2D input image. The main structure of proposed framework consists of unsupervised pre-trained components which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Shima Kamyab , S. Zohreh Azimifar

Group equivariance (e.g. SE(3) equivariance) is a critical physical symmetry in science, from classical and quantum physics to computational biology. It enables robust and accurate prediction under arbitrary reference transformations. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Weitao Du , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du , Qi Meng , Wei Chen , Bin Shao , Tie-Yan Liu

Augmentation-based self-supervised learning methods have shown remarkable success in self-supervised visual representation learning, excelling in learning invariant features but often neglecting equivariant ones. This limitation reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Qin Wang , Kai Krajsek , Hanno Scharr

One of the core components of conventional (i.e., non-learned) video codecs consists of predicting a frame from a previously-decoded frame, by leveraging temporal correlations. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end learned system for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Nannan Zou , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jani Lainema , Emre Aksu , Miska Hannuksela , Esa Rahtu

A common pipeline in functional data analysis is to first convert the discretely observed data to smooth functions, and then represent the functions by a finite-dimensional vector of coefficients summarizing the information. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sidi Wu , Cédric Beaulac , Jiguo Cao

Recent advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Equivariance of neural networks to transformations helps to improve their performance and reduce generalization error in computer vision tasks, as they apply to datasets presenting symmetries (e.g. scalings, rotations, translations). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Euclidean geometry has historically been the typical "workhorse" for machine learning applications due to its power and simplicity. However, it has recently been shown that geometric spaces with constant non-zero curvature improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ondrej Skopek , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Gary Bécigneul