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Capsule Network is a promising concept in deep learning, yet its true potential is not fully realized thus far, providing sub-par performance on several key benchmark datasets with complex data. Drawing intuition from the success achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Vinoj Jayasundara , Sandaru Jayasekara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Suranga Seneviratne , Ranga Rodrigo

Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to embed object transformations. That is highly inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Marcello Chiaberge

Unsupervised learning of compact and relevant state representations has been proved very useful at solving complex reinforcement learning tasks. In this paper, we propose a recurrent capsule network that learns such representations by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Louis Annabi , Michael Garcia Ortiz

Capsule networks (CapsNets) aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts, and their relations using a two-step process involving part-whole transformation and hierarchical component routing. However, this hierarchical relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Swagatam Das , Eric Granger , Salvador Garcia

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

A key component to the success of deep learning is the availability of massive amounts of training data. Building and annotating large datasets for solving medical image classification problems is today a bottleneck for many applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez , Shadi Albarqouni , Diana Mateus

Capsule Networks face a critical problem in computer vision in the sense that the image background can challenge its performance, although they learn very well on training data. In this work, we propose to improve Capsule Networks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Nguyen Huu Phong , Bernardete Ribeiro

In this study, we examine the potential of one of the ``superexpressive'' networks in the context of learning neural functions for representing complex signals and performing machine learning downstream tasks. Our focus is on evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Uvini Balasuriya Mudiyanselage , Woojin Cho , Minju Jo , Noseong Park , Kookjin Lee

This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

From the moment Neural Networks dominated the scene for image processing, the computational complexity needed to solve the targeted tasks skyrocketed: against such an unsustainable trend, many strategies have been developed, ambitiously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Riccardo Renzulli , Marco Grangetto

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

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 this paper, we propose a capsule-based neural network model to solve the semantic segmentation problem. By taking advantage of the extractable part-whole dependencies available in capsule layers, we derive the probabilities of the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tao Sun , Zhewei Wang , C. D. Smith , Jundong Liu

To effectively classify graph instances, graph neural networks need to have the capability to capture the part-whole relationship existing in a graph. A capsule is a group of neurons representing complicated properties of entities, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yu Lei , Jing Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successful in solving tasks in computer vision including medical image segmentation due to their ability to automatically extract features from unstructured data. However, CNNs are sensitive to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Kyle Quinn , Hien Nguyen , Khoa Luu , Ngan Le

Capsule Networks attempt to represent patterns in images in a way that preserves hierarchical spatial relationships. Additionally, research has demonstrated that these techniques may be robust against adversarial perturbations. We present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Taylor Killian , Justin Goodwin , Olivia Brown , Sung-Hyun Son

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

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

Machine learning based methods achieves impressive results in object classification and detection. Utilizing representative data of the visual world during the training phase is crucial to achieve good performance with such data driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Bruno Ferrarini , Shoaib Ehsan , Adrien Bartoli , Aleš Leonardis , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Capsule networks are biologically inspired neural networks that group neurons into vectors called capsules, each explicitly representing an object or one of its parts. The routing mechanism connects capsules in consecutive layers, forming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Riccardo Renzulli , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto