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Convolution kernels are the basic structural component of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In the last years there has been a growing interest in fisheye cameras for many applications. However, the radially symmetric projection model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Bruno Berenguel-Baeta , Maria Santos-Villafranca , Jesus Bermudez-Cameo , Alejandro Perez-Yus , Jose J. Guerrero

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

Deep learning-based image registration methods have shown state-of-the-art performance and rapid inference speeds. Despite these advances, many existing approaches fall short in capturing spatially varying information in non-local regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xinxing Cheng , Tianyang Zhang , Wenqi Lu , Qingjie Meng , Alejandro F. Frangi , Jinming Duan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular deep learning architecture widely applied in different domains, in particular in classifying over images, for which the concept of convolution with a filter comes naturally. Unfortunately,…

The M\"obius polynomial is an invariant of ranked posets, closely related to the M\"obius function. In this paper, we study the M\"obius polynomial of face posets of convex polytopes. We present formulas for computing the M\"obius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Meena Jagadeesan , Susan Durst

The convolutional layers of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equivariant to translation. However, the convolution and fully-connected layers are not equivariant or invariant to other affine geometric transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jaspreet Singh , Chandan Singh

Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their ability to focus on global relationships in images, offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Asifullah Khan , Zunaira Rauf , Anabia Sohail , Abdul Rehman , Hifsa Asif , Aqsa Asif , Umair Farooq

For many years, it has been shown how much exploiting equivariances can be beneficial when solving image analysis tasks. For example, the superiority of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) compared to dense networks mainly comes from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Valentin Delchevalerie , Alexandre Mayer , Adrien Bibal , Benoît Frénay

We propose a framework for rotation and translation covariant deep learning using $SE(2)$ group convolutions. The group product of the special Euclidean motion group $SE(2)$ describes how a concatenation of two roto-translations results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Erik J Bekkers , Maxime W Lafarge , Mitko Veta , Koen AJ Eppenhof , Josien PW Pluim , Remco Duits

Learning depth from spherical panoramas is becoming a popular research topic because a panorama has a full field-of-view of the environment and provides a relatively complete description of a scene. However, applying well-studied CNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Hualie Jiang , Zhe Sheng , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Rui Huang

Finding semantic correspondences is a challenging problem. With the breakthrough of CNNs stronger features are available for tasks like classification but not specifically for the requirements of semantic matching. In the following we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Nikolai Ufer , Kam To Lui , Katja Schwarz , Paul Warkentin , Björn Ommer

The study of astronomical phenomena through ground-based observations is always challenged by the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere. Traditional methods of post-facto image correction, essential for correcting these distortions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 A. Asensio Ramos

We use the method of equivariant moving frames to revisit the problem of normal forms and equivalence of nondegenerate real hypersurfaces M \subset C^2 under the pseudo-group action of holomorphic transformations. The moving frame…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter J. Olver , Masoud Sabzevari , Francis Valiquette

Convolution is spatially-symmetric, i.e., the visual features are independent of its position in the image, which limits its ability to utilize contextual cues for visual recognition. This paper addresses this issue by introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yan Wang , Lingxi Xie , Siyuan Qiao , Ya Zhang , Wenjun Zhang , Alan L. Yuille

The weight-sharing mechanism of convolutional kernels ensures translation-equivariance of convolution neural networks (CNNs). Recently, rotation-equivariance has been investigated. However, research on scale-equivariance or simultaneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wei-Dong Qiao , Yang Xu , Hui Li

Transformationally invariant processors constructed by transformed input vectors or operators have been suggested and applied to many applications. In this study, transformationally identical processing based on combining results of all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 ShihChung B. Lo , Matthew T. Freedman , Seong K. Mun

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

Let $\mathbb{M}(\mathbb{S}^{n+1})$ denote the M\"{o}bius transformation group of the $(n+1)$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$. A hypersurface $x:M^n\to \mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ is called a M\"{o}bius homogeneous hypersurface if there exists a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tongzhu Li , Xiang Ma , Changping Wang , Peng Wang

Optical metasurfaces have enabled high-speed, low-power image processing within a compact footprint. However, reconfigurable imaging in such flat devices remains a critical challenge for fully harnessing their potential in practical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tingting Liu , Jumin Qiu , Tianbao Yu , Qiegen Liu , Jie Li , Shuyuan Xiao

Dynamic MR images possess various transformation symmetries,including the rotation symmetry of local features within the image and along the temporal dimension. Utilizing these symmetries as prior knowledge can facilitate dynamic MR imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yuliang Zhu , Jing Cheng , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Jianfeng Ren , Chengbo Wang , Dong Liang