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In recent years, the CNNs have achieved great successes in the image processing tasks, e.g., image recognition and object detection. Unfortunately, traditional CNN's classification is found to be easily misled by increasingly complex image…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xingyao Zhang , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Chenhao Xie , Jing Wang , Weigong Zhang , Xin Fu

Capsule Network (CapsNet) is among the promising classifiers and a possible successor of the classifiers built based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet is more accurate than CNNs in detecting images with overlapping categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Many text classification applications require models with satisfying performance as well as good interpretability. Traditional machine learning methods are easy to interpret but have low accuracies. The development of deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zhengyang Wang , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji

We present a framework to use recently introduced Capsule Networks for solving the problem of Optical Flow, one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Most of the existing state of the art deep architectures either uses a correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rahul Chand , Rajat Arora , K Ram Prabhakar , R Venkatesh Babu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in medical image segmentation. However, CNNs require lots of training data and are incapable of handling pose and deformation of objects. Furthermore, their pooling layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Ngan T. H. Le

Recently, the growth of deep learning has produced a large number of deep neural networks. How to describe these networks unifiedly is becoming an important issue. We first formalize neural networks in a mathematical definition, give their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yujian Li , Chuanhui Shan

The basic computational unit in Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a capsule (vs. neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)). A capsule is a set of neurons, which form a vector. CapsNet is used for supervised classification of data and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pouya Shiri , Ramin Sharifi , Amirali Baniasadi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve translational invariance by using pooling operations. However, the operations do not preserve the spatial relationships in the learned representations. Hence, CNNs cannot extrapolate to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

In capsule networks, the routing algorithm connects capsules in consecutive layers, enabling the upper-level capsules to learn higher-level concepts by combining the concepts of the lower-level capsules. Capsule networks are known to have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Inyoung Paik , Taeyeong Kwak , Injung Kim

How to improve the efficiency of routing procedures in CapsNets has been studied a lot. However, the efficiency of capsule convolutions has largely been neglected. Capsule convolution, which uses capsules rather than neurons as the basic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhenhua Chen , Xiwen Li , Qian Lou , David Crandall

Recently proposed Capsule Network is a brain inspired architecture that brings a new paradigm to deep learning by modelling input domain variations through vector based representations. Despite being a seminal contribution, CapsNet does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Sameera Ramasinghe , C. D. Athuralya , Salman Khan

A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hongyang Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

This paper presents an empirical exploration of the use of capsule networks for text classification. While it has been shown that capsule networks are effective for image classification, their validity in the domain of text has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jaeyoung Kim , Sion Jang , Sungchul Choi , Eunjeong Park

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent performances in many computer vision tasks. Specifically, for hyperspectral images (HSIs) classification, CNNs often require very complex structure due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Haitao Zhang , Lingguo Meng , Xian Wei , Xiaoliang Tang , Xuan Tang , Xingping Wang , Bo Jin , Wei Yao

In this paper, we formalize the idea behind capsule nets of using a capsule vector rather than a neuron activation to predict the label of samples. To this end, we propose to learn a group of capsule subspaces onto which an input feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Liheng Zhang , Marzieh Edraki , Guo-Jun Qi

Capsule networks (CapsNets) have recently shown promise to excel in most computer vision tasks, especially pertaining to scene understanding. In this paper, we explore CapsNet's capabilities in optical flow estimation, a task at which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

Brain tumor is considered as one of the deadliest and most common form of cancer both in children and in adults. Consequently, determining the correct type of brain tumor in early stages is of significant importance to devise a precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Parnian Afshar , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Capsule Networks, an extension to Neural Networks utilizing vector or matrix representations instead of scalars, were initially developed to create a dynamic parse tree where visual concepts evolve from parts to complete objects. Early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Miles Everett , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Deep learning has excelled in medical image classification, but its clinical application is limited by poor interpretability. Capsule networks, known for encoding hierarchical relationships and spatial features, show potential in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jun Xu

Capsule networks are a recently proposed type of neural network shown to outperform alternatives in challenging shape recognition tasks. In capsule networks, scalar neurons are replaced with capsule vectors or matrices, whose entries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Georgios Leontidis , Stefanos Kollias