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This paper proposes a 3D shape descriptor network, which is a deep convolutional energy-based model, for modeling volumetric shape patterns. The maximum likelihood training of the model follows an "analysis by synthesis" scheme and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jianwen Xie , Zilong Zheng , Ruiqi Gao , Wenguan Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Decoding images from brain activity has been a challenge. Owing to the development of deep learning, there are available tools to solve this problem. The decoded image, which aims to map neural spike trains to low-level visual features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wenyi Li , Shengjie Zheng , Yufan Liao , Rongqi Hong , Weiliang Chen , Chenggnag He , Xiaojian Li

Neural shape representation generally refers to representing 3D geometry using neural networks, e.g., computing a signed distance or occupancy value at a specific spatial position. In this paper we present a neural-network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Stefan Rhys Jeske , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels , Jan Bender

A long-standing question for urban and regional planners pertains to the ability to describe urban patterns quantitatively. Cities' transport infrastructure, particularly street networks, provides an invaluable source of information about…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Kira Kempinska , Roberto Murcio

The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells. This system is well-studied in neuroscience, and its efficiency and versatility make it attractive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sven Krausse , Emre Neftci , Friedrich T. Sommer , Alpha Renner

Our understanding of the visual world is centered around various concept axes, characterizing different aspects of visual entities. While different concept axes can be easily specified by language, e.g. color, the exact visual nuances along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Sharon Lee , Yunzhi Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Jiajun Wu

Image Classification and Video Action Recognition are perhaps the two most foundational tasks in computer vision. Consequently, explaining the inner workings of trained deep neural networks is of prime importance. While numerous efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Avinab Saha , Shashank Gupta , Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , Karl Chahine , Joydeep Ghosh

Encoding models have as their objective to predict neural responses to naturalistic stimuli with the aim of elucidating how sensory information is represented in the brain. This prediction is achieved by representing the stimulus in terms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-19 Umut Güçlü , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Concept-based explanation methods, such as Concept Activation Vectors, are potent means to quantify how abstract or high-level characteristics of input data influence the predictions of complex deep neural networks. However, applying them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Thomas Decker , Michael Lebacher , Volker Tresp

Generative models have emerged as powerful tools in medical imaging, enabling tasks such as segmentation, anomaly detection, and high-quality synthetic data generation. These models typically rely on learning meaningful latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jordi Malé , Juan Fortea , Mateus Rozalem-Aranha , Neus Martínez-Abadías , Xavier Sevillano

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are often used for sequential modeling of adverse outcomes in electronic health records (EHRs) due to their ability to encode past clinical states. These deep, recurrent architectures have displayed…

Despite decades of research, understanding human manipulation activities is, and has always been, one of the most attractive and challenging research topics in computer vision and robotics. Recognition and prediction of observed human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Gamze Akyol , Sanem Sariel , Eren Erdal Aksoy

Symbolic computation, powered by modern computer algebra systems, has important applications in mathematical reasoning through exact deep computations. The efficiency of symbolic computation is largely constrained by such deep computations…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rui-Juan Jing , Yuegang Zhao , Changbo Chen

Autonomous driving systems require a comprehensive understanding of the environment, achieved by extracting visual features essential for perception, planning, and control. However, models trained solely on single-task objectives or generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Huy-Dung Nguyen , Anass Bairouk , Mirjana Maras , Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Patrick Chareyre , Ramin Hasani , Marc Blanchon , Daniela Rus

Explanations for deep neural network predictions in terms of domain-related concepts can be valuable in medical applications, where justifications are important for confidence in the decision-making. In this work, we propose a methodology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Mara Graziani , Vincent Andrearczyk , Henning Müller

We report a method to convert discrete representations of molecules to and from a multidimensional continuous representation. This model allows us to generate new molecules for efficient exploration and optimization through open-ended…

Many applications in 3D shape design and augmentation require the ability to make specific edits to an object's semantic parameters (e.g., the pose of a person's arm or the length of an airplane's wing) while preserving as much existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Fangyin Wei , Elena Sizikova , Avneesh Sud , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Thomas Funkhouser

Understanding what deep network models capture in their learned representations is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. We present a new methodology to understanding such vision models, the Visual Concept Connectome (VCC), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Matthew Kowal , Richard P. Wildes , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xianxu Hou , Linlin Shen , Ke Sun , Guoping Qiu

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu