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While some convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have surpassed human visual abilities in object classification, they often struggle to recognize objects in images corrupted with different types of common noise patterns, highlighting a major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Avinash Baidya , Joel Dapello , James J. DiCarlo , Tiago Marques

Deep neural networks (DNNs), especially deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have emerged as the powerful technique in various machine learning applications. However, the large model sizes of DNNs yield high demands on computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Siyu Liao , Zhe Li , Liang Zhao , Qinru Qiu , Yanzhi Wang , Bo Yuan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown strong promise for analyzing scientific data from many domains including particle imaging detectors. However, the challenge of choosing the appropriate network architecture (depth, kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Duc Hoang , Jesse Hamer , Gabriel N. Perdue , Steven R. Young , Jonathan Miller , Anushree Ghosh

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

With the increasing popularity of deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied in various domains, such as image classification and object detection, and achieve stunning success in terms of their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yuke Wang , Boyuan Feng , Xueqiao Peng , Yufei Ding

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on object recognition achieve high task performance but continue to exhibit vulnerability under a range of visual perturbations and out-of-domain images, when compared with biological vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Lucas Piper , Arlindo L. Oliveira , Tiago Marques

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

As an emerging type of Neural Networks (NNs), Transformers are used in many domains ranging from Natural Language Processing to Autonomous Driving. In this paper, we study the robustness problem of Transformers, a key characteristic as low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao , Chih-Hong Cheng , Hasan Esen , Alois Knoll

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have constantly achieved better performance over years by introducing more complex topology, and enlarging the capacity towards deeper and wider CNNs. This makes the manual design of CNNs extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) pruning has become one of the most successful network compression approaches in recent years. Existing works on network pruning usually focus on removing the least important filters in the network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Xiangyang Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn to extract representations of complex features, such as object shapes and textures to solve image recognition tasks. Recent work indicates that CNNs trained on ImageNet are biased towards features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Ranjitha Subramaniam , Robin Hutmacher , Julien Vitay , Volker Fischer , Jan Hendrik Metzen

CNNs perform remarkably well when the training and test distributions are i.i.d, but unseen image corruptions can cause a surprisingly large drop in performance. In various real scenarios, unexpected distortions, such as random noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Tonmoy Saikia , Cordelia Schmid , Thomas Brox

Compressed deep learning models are crucial for deploying computer vision systems on resource-constrained devices. However, model compression may affect robustness, especially under natural corruption. Therefore, it is important to consider…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently led to incredible breakthroughs on a variety of pattern recognition problems. Banks of finite impulse response filters are learned on a hierarchy of layers, each contributing more abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Felipe Petroski Such , Shagan Sah , Miguel Dominguez , Suhas Pillai , Chao Zhang , Andrew Michael , Nathan Cahill , Raymond Ptucha

In contemporary computer vision applications, particularly image classification, architectural backbones pre-trained on large datasets like ImageNet are commonly employed as feature extractors. Despite the widespread use of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Existing image recognition techniques based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) basically assume that the training and test datasets are sampled from i.i.d distributions. However, this assumption is easily broken in the real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kazuki Adachi , Shin'ya Yamaguchi

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated outstanding Compressed Sensing (CS) performance compared to traditional, hand-crafted methods. However, they are broadly limited in terms of generalisability, inductive bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

Convolutional neural networks are witnessing wide adoption in computer vision systems with numerous applications across a range of visual recognition tasks. Much of this progress is fueled through advances in convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

While successful for various computer vision tasks, deep neural networks have shown to be vulnerable to texture style shifts and small perturbations to which humans are robust. In this work, we show that the robustness of neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhenlin Xu , Deyi Liu , Junlin Yang , Colin Raffel , Marc Niethammer

Following unprecedented success on the natural language tasks, Transformers have been successfully applied to several computer vision problems, achieving state-of-the-art results and prompting researchers to reconsider the supremacy of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Fahad Shamshad , Salman Khan , Syed Waqas Zamir , Muhammad Haris Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Huazhu Fu