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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

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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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Convolutional Neural Networks have provided state-of-the-art results in several computer vision problems. However, due to a large number of parameters in CNNs, they require a large number of training samples which is a limiting factor for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Rohit Keshari , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

We conduct an empirical study to test the ability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to reduce the effects of nuisance transformations of the input data, such as location, scale and aspect ratio. We isolate factors by adopting a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Nikolaos Karianakis , Jingming Dong , Stefano Soatto

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at image classification but remain vulnerable to common corruptions that humans handle with ease. A key reason for this fragility is their reliance on local texture cues rather than global object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Robin Narsingh Ranabhat , Longwei Wang , Amit Kumar Patel , KC santosh

It is widely acknowledged that trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have different levels of sensitivity to signals of different frequency. In particular, a number of empirical studies have documented CNNs sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Charles Godfrey , Elise Bishoff , Myles Mckay , Davis Brown , Grayson Jorgenson , Henry Kvinge , Eleanor Byler

In this work, we address the problem of improvement of robustness of feature representations learned using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to image deformation. We argue that higher moment statistics of feature distributions could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Nico Karssemeijer , Tom Heskes , Inge van Uden , Clara Sanchez , Geert Litjens , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Elena Marchiori , Bram Platel

Deep Learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are powerful image classifiers, but what factors determine whether they attend to similar image areas as humans do? While previous studies have focused on technological factors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Romy Müller , Marcel Dürschmidt , Julian Ullrich , Carsten Knoll , Sascha Weber , Steffen Seitz

Supervised learning of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can require very large amounts of labeled data. Labeling thousands or millions of training examples can be extremely time consuming and costly. One direction towards addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Amir Ghaderi , Vassilis Athitsos

Is it possible to recover an image from its noisy version using convolutional neural networks? This is an interesting problem as convolutional layers are generally used as feature detectors for tasks like classification, segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Nithish Divakar , R. Venkatesh Babu

Feature selection is an important task in many problems occurring in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining applications. The feature selection approach enables us to reduce the computation burden and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Hadi Zare , Mojtaba Niazi

Feature extraction with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is a popular method to represent images for machine learning tasks. These representations seek to capture global image content, and ideally should be independent of geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jake Lee , Junfeng Yang , Zhangyang Wang

Deep neural networks are representation learning techniques. During training, a deep net is capable of generating a descriptive language of unprecedented size and detail in machine learning. Extracting the descriptive language coded within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Ferran Parés , Armand Vilalta , Jonatan Moreno , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

Feature selection is important step in machine learning since it has shown to improve prediction accuracy while depressing the curse of dimensionality of high dimensional data. The neural networks have experienced tremendous success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Peter Bugata , Peter Drotar