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This paper proposes a new method to improve the training efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks. During training, the method evaluates scores to measure how much each layer's parameters change and whether the layer will continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Giorgio Cruciata , Luca Cruciata , Liliana Lo Presti , Jan Van Gemert , Marco La Cascia

Image classification remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, particularly when fine-grained feature extraction and background noise suppression are required simultaneously. Conventional convolutional neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wentao Jiang , Yuanchan Xu , Heng Yuan

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

Dilated Convolutions have been shown to be highly useful for the task of image segmentation. By introducing gaps into convolutional filters, they enable the use of larger receptive fields without increasing the original kernel size. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Thomas Ziegler , Manuel Fritsche , Lorenz Kuhn , Konstantin Donhauser

Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Building large models with parameter sharing accounts for most of the success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose doubly convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), which significantly improve the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Weining Lu , Zhongfei Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to be significantly over-parametrized, and difficult to interpret, train and adapt. In this paper, we introduce a structural regularization across convolutional kernels in a CNN. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ze Wang , Xiuyuan Cheng , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

The tradeoff between receptive field size and efficiency is a crucial issue in low level vision. Plain convolutional networks (CNNs) generally enlarge the receptive field at the expense of computational cost. Recently, dilated filtering has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pengju Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo

The deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based single image dehazing methods have achieved significant success. The previous methods are devoted to improving the network's performance by increasing the network's depth and width. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Pinjun Luo , Guoqiang Xiao , Xinbo Gao , Song Wu

We propose a dynamic filtering strategy with large sampling field for ConvNets (LS-DFN), where the position-specific kernels learn from not only the identical position but also multiple sampled neighbor regions. During sampling, residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jialin Wu , Dai Li , Yu Yang , Chandrajit Bajaj , Xiangyang Ji

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful classification tools in tasks that range from check reading to medical diagnosis, reaching close to human perception, and in some cases surpassing it. However, the problems to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jose Marques , Gabriel Falcao , Luís A. Alexandre

Recently, single-image super-resolution has made great progress owing to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The vast majority of CNN-based models use a pre-defined upsampling operator, such as bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Xin Yang , Haiyang Mei , Jiqing Zhang , Ke Xu , Baocai Yin , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei

A basic operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is spatial resizing of feature maps. This is done either by strided convolution (donwscaling) or transposed convolution (upscaling). Such operations are limited to a fixed filter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Assaf Shocher , Ben Feinstein , Niv Haim , Michal Irani

To leverage deep learning for image aesthetics assessment, one critical but unsolved issue is how to seamlessly incorporate the information of image aspect ratios to learn more robust models. In this paper, an adaptive fractional dilated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Qiuyu Chen , Wei Zhang , Ning Zhou , Peng Lei , Yi Xu , Yu Zheng , Jianping Fan

Convolutional networks for image classification progressively reduce resolution until the image is represented by tiny feature maps in which the spatial structure of the scene is no longer discernible. Such loss of spatial acuity can limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Fisher Yu , Vladlen Koltun , Thomas Funkhouser

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great effectiveness in medical image segmentation. However, they may be limited in modeling large inter-subject variations in organ shapes and sizes and exploiting global long-range contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Image denoising is a classical problem in low level computer vision. Model-based optimization methods and deep learning approaches have been the two main strategies for solving the problem. Model-based optimization methods are flexible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chang Liu , Zhaowei Shang , Anyong Qin

Stable Diffusion (SD) has evolved DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model) based image generation significantly by denoising in latent space instead of feature space. This popularized DDPM-based image generation as the cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Md Abu Obaida Zishan , Jannatun Noor , Annajiat Alim Rasel

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be very successful in a wide range of image processing applications. However, due to their increasing number of model parameters and an increasing availability of large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Janine Weber