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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the field of deep neural networks. However, recent research has shown that CNNs fail to generalize under various conditions and hence the idea of capsules was introduced in 2011,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Nidhin Harilal , Rohan Patil

The response of many-body quantum systems to an optical pulse can be extremely challenging to model. Here we explore the use of neural networks, both traditional and generative, to learn and thus simulate the response of such a system from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Abhijit Sen , Bikram Keshari Parida , Kurt Jacobs , Denys I. Bondar

In this paper, a simple topology of Capsule Network (CapsNet) is investigated for the problem of image colorization. The generative and segmentation capabilities of the original CapsNet topology, which is proposed for image classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Gökhan Özbulak

A novel Neural Network architecture is proposed using the mathematically and physically rich idea of vector fields as hidden layers to perform nonlinear transformations in the data. The data points are interpreted as particles moving along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Daniel Vieira , Fabio Rangel , Fabricio Firmino , Joao Paixao

We propose a novel architecture for object classification, called Self-Attention Capsule Networks (SACN). SACN is the first model that incorporates the Self-Attention mechanism as an integral layer within the Capsule Network (CapsNet).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Assaf Hoogi , Brian Wilcox , Yachee Gupta , Daniel L. Rubin

The traditional convolution neural networks (CNN) have several drawbacks like the Picasso effect and the loss of information by the pooling layer. The Capsule network (CapsNet) was proposed to address these challenges because its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Adewale Adeyemo , Faiq Khalid , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

This paper presents the input convex neural network architecture. These are scalar-valued (potentially deep) neural networks with constraints on the network parameters such that the output of the network is a convex function of (some of)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Brandon Amos , Lei Xu , J. Zico Kolter

We propose introspective convolutional networks (ICN) that emphasize the importance of having convolutional neural networks empowered with generative capabilities. We employ a reclassification-by-synthesis algorithm to perform training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Long Jin , Justin Lazarow , Zhuowen Tu

Capsules are grouping of neurons that allow to represent sophisticated information of a visual entity such as pose and features. In the view of this property, Capsule Networks outperform CNNs in challenging tasks like object recognition in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Barış Özcan , Furkan Kınlı , Furkan Kıraç

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

Predictive coding (PC) networks are a biologically interesting class of neural networks. Their layered hierarchy mimics the reciprocal connectivity pattern observed in the mammalian cortex, and they can be trained using local learning rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jeff Orchard , Wei Sun

We propose an Auto-Parsing Network (APN) to discover and exploit the input data's hidden tree structures for improving the effectiveness of the Transformer-based vision-language systems. Specifically, we impose a Probabilistic Graphical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xu Yang , Chongyang Gao , Hanwang Zhang , Jianfei Cai

Understanding a visual scene goes beyond recognizing individual objects in isolation. Relationships between objects also constitute rich semantic information about the scene. In this work, we explicitly model the objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Christopher B. Choy , Li Fei-Fei

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Markus Wenzel

We propose a novel capsule network based variational encoder architecture, called Bayesian capsules (B-Caps), to modulate the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution in the latent space. We hypothesized that this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Harish RaviPrakash , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Ulas Bagci

We introduce a new neural architecture and an unsupervised algorithm for learning invariant representations from temporal sequence of images. The system uses two groups of complex cells whose outputs are combined multiplicatively: one that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Karo Gregor , Yann LeCun

Scene graphs provide a rich, structured representation of a scene by encoding the entities (objects) and their spatial relationships in a graphical format. This representation has proven useful in several tasks, such as question answering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Sanjoy Kundu , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

Neural networks have emerged as powerful tools across various applications, yet their decision-making process often remains opaque, leading to them being perceived as "black boxes." This opacity raises concerns about their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Pirzada Suhail , Hao Tang , Amit Sethi

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

This paper presents Capsule GAN, a Generative adversarial network using Capsule Network not only in the discriminator but also in the generator. Recently, Generative adversarial networks (GANs) has been intensively studied. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Kanako Marusaki , Hiroshi Watanabe