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The principle of translation equivariance (if an input image is translated an output image should be translated by the same amount), led to the development of convolutional neural networks that revolutionized machine vision. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zachary Schlamowitz , Andrew Bennecke , Daniel J. Tward

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

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

Orthogonal convolutional layers are valuable components in multiple areas of machine learning, such as adversarial robustness, normalizing flows, GANs, and Lipschitz-constrained models. Their ability to preserve norms and ensure stable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Thibaut Boissin , Franck Mamalet , Thomas Fel , Agustin Martin Picard , Thomas Massena , Mathieu Serrurier

Pre-processing and Data Augmentation play an important role in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). Whereby several methods aim for standardization and augmentation of the dataset, we here propose a novel method aimed to feed DCNN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Carlo Russo , Sidong Liu , Antonio Di Ieva

Translating or rotating an input image should not affect the results of many computer vision tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are already translation equivariant: input image translations produce proportionate feature map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Daniel E. Worrall , Stephan J. Garbin , Daniyar Turmukhambetov , Gabriel J. Brostow

The equivalence postulate approach to quantum mechanics aims to formulate quantum mechanics from a fundamental geometrical principle. Underlying the formulation there exists a basic cocycle condition which is invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Alon E. Faraggi , Marco Matone

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

Convolution is conventionally defined as a linear operation on functions of one or more variables which commutes with shifts. Group convolution generalizes the concept to linear operations on functions of group elements representing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Xinhua Zhang , Lance R. Williams

360{\deg} spherical images have advantages of wide view field, and are typically projected on a planar plane for processing, which is known as equirectangular image. The object shape in equirectangular images can be distorted and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Haoqian Chen , Jian Liu , Minghe Li , Kaiwen Jiang , Ziheng Xu , Rencheng Sun , Yi Sui

M\"obius transformations of the extended complex plane are at the crossroads of many interesting topics, e.g., they form a group under composition, are the simplest form of rational function, and are a path to Lie theory. Quaternionic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Tony Thrall

Numerous studies have recently focused on incorporating different variations of equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In particular, rotation-equivariance has gathered significant attention due to its relevance in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Robin Ghyselinck , Valentin Delchevalerie , Bruno Dumas , Benoît Frénay

Using convolutional neural networks for 360images can induce sub-optimal performance due to distortions entailed by a planar projection. The distortion gets deteriorated when a rotation is applied to the 360image. Thus, many researches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Sungmin Cho , Raehyuk Jung , Junseok Kwon

Given a single RGB panorama, the goal of 3D layout reconstruction is to estimate the room layout by predicting the corners, floor boundary, and ceiling boundary. A common approach has been to use standard convolutional networks to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shivansh Rao , Vikas Kumar , Daniel Kifer , Lee Giles , Ankur Mali

Designing a convolution for a spherical neural network requires a delicate tradeoff between efficiency and rotation equivariance. DeepSphere, a method based on a graph representation of the sampled sphere, strikes a controllable balance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Michaël Defferrard , Martino Milani , Frédérick Gusset , Nathanaël Perraudin

Despite the importance of image representations such as histograms of oriented gradients and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), our theoretical understanding of them remains limited. Aiming at filling this gap, we investigate three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Karel Lenc , Andrea Vedaldi

This paper proposes a novel method for omnidirectional 360$\degree$ perception. Most common previous methods relied on equirectangular projection. This representation is easily applicable to 2D operation layers but introduces distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yaniv Benny , Lior Wolf

This paper proposes a convolution structure for learning SE(3)-equivariant features from 3D point clouds. It can be viewed as an equivariant version of kernel point convolutions (KPConv), a widely used convolution form to process point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , William A. Clark , Huei Peng

The success of convolutional networks in learning problems involving planar signals such as images is due to their ability to exploit the translation symmetry of the data distribution through weight sharing. Many areas of science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling

Semantic segmentation is an important branch of image processing and computer vision. With the popularity of deep learning, various convolutional neural networks have been proposed for pixel-level classification and segmentation tasks. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xinyu Xu , Huazhen Liu , Tao Zhang , Huilin Xiong , Wenxian Yu