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Human observers can learn to recognize new categories of images from a handful of examples, yet doing so with artificial ones remains an open challenge. We hypothesize that data-efficient recognition is enabled by representations which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Olivier J. Hénaff , Aravind Srinivas , Jeffrey De Fauw , Ali Razavi , Carl Doersch , S. M. Ali Eslami , Aaron van den Oord

Recent approaches in self-supervised learning of image representations can be categorized into different families of methods and, in particular, can be divided into contrastive and non-contrastive approaches. While differences between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Quentin Garrido , Yubei Chen , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Yann Lecun

Contrastive representation learning has emerged as a promising technique for continual learning as it can learn representations that are robust to catastrophic forgetting and generalize well to unseen future tasks. Previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad , Jie Mei , Daniel Lizotte , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

In visual recognition tasks, such as image classification, unsupervised learning exploits cheap unlabeled data and can help to solve these tasks more efficiently. We show that the recursive autoconvolution operator, adopted from physics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Boris Knyazev , Erhardt Barth , Thomas Martinetz

The capsule network is a distinct and promising segment of the neural network family that drew attention due to its unique ability to maintain the equivariance property by preserving the spatial relationship amongst the features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 S J Pawan , Rishi Sharma , Hemanth Sai Ram Reddy , M Vani , Jeny Rajan

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

We present CapsoNet, a deep learning framework developed for the Capsule Vision 2024 Challenge, designed to perform multi-class abnormality classification in video capsule endoscopy (VCE) frames. CapsoNet leverages an ensemble of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Arnav Samal , Ranya Batsyas

Learning self-supervised representations that are invariant and equivariant to transformations is crucial for advancing beyond traditional visual classification tasks. However, many methods rely on predictor architectures to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Athinoulla Konstantinou , Georgios Leontidis , Mamatha Thota , Aiden Durrant

Instance contrast for unsupervised representation learning has achieved great success in recent years. In this work, we explore the idea of instance contrastive learning in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) and propose a novel Category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Aoran Xiao , Shijian Lu , Ling Shao

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are a generation of image classifiers with proven advantages over Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Better robustness to affine transformation and overlapping image detection are some of the benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ramin Sharifi , Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

We present a method for fast inference in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) by taking advantage of a key insight regarding the routing coefficients that link capsules between adjacent network layers. Since the routing coefficients are responsible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhen Zhao , Ashley Kleinhans , Gursharan Sandhu , Ishan Patel , K. P. Unnikrishnan

As a representative self-supervised method, contrastive learning has achieved great successes in unsupervised training of representations. It trains an encoder by distinguishing positive samples from negative ones given query anchors. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiao Wang , Yuhang Huang , Dan Zeng , Guo-Jun Qi

Capsule network is a recent new deep network architecture that has been applied successfully for medical image segmentation tasks. This work extends capsule networks for volumetric medical image segmentation with self-supervised learning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Minh Tran , Loi Ly , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

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

Masked image modelling (e.g., Masked AutoEncoder) and contrastive learning (e.g., Momentum Contrast) have shown impressive performance on unsupervised visual representation learning. This work presents Masked Contrastive Representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yuchong Yao , Nandakishor Desai , Marimuthu Palaniswami

We develop an approach to learning visual representations that embraces multimodal data, driven by a combination of intra- and inter-modal similarity preservation objectives. Unlike existing visual pre-training methods, which solve a proxy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , Yilin Wang , Michael Maire , Ajinkya Kale , Baldo Faieta

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have been re-introduced as a more compact and interpretable alternative to standard deep neural networks. While recent efforts have proved their compression capabilities, to date, their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Saja Tawalbeh , José Oramas

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

The paper presents a novel type of capsule network (CAP) that uses custom-defined neural network (NN) layers for blind classification of digitally modulated signals using their in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) components. The custom NN layers of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 John A. Snoap , Dimitrie C. Popescu , Chad M. Spooner

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Parnian Afshar , Shahin Heidarian , Farnoosh Naderkhani , Anastasia Oikonomou , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi