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In this paper, we propose a computational efficient end-to-end training deep neural network (CEDNN) model and spatial attention maps based on difference images. Firstly, the difference image is generated by image processing. Then five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jing Chen , Chenhui Wang , Kejun Wang , Meichen Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of neural networks that allow to efficiently perform inference on data that is associated to a graph structure, such as, e.g., citation networks or knowledge graphs. While several variants of GNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Simone Scardapane , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Danilo Comminiello , Aurelio Uncini

We present neural activation coding (NAC) as a novel approach for learning deep representations from unlabeled data for downstream applications. We argue that the deep encoder should maximize its nonlinear expressivity on the data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yookoon Park , Sangho Lee , Gunhee Kim , David M. Blei

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown remarkable performance in most computer vision tasks. These tasks traditionally use a fixed dataset, and the model, once trained, is deployed as is. Adding new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Deboleena Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaoran Yang , Shuhan Yu , Wenxi Xu

We propose a novel CNN architecture called ACTNET for robust instance image retrieval from large-scale datasets. Our key innovation is a learnable activation layer designed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Syed Sameed Husain , Eng-Jon Ong , Miroslaw Bober

In neural networks, non-linearity is introduced by activation functions. One commonly used activation function is Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). ReLU has been a popular choice as an activation but has flaws. State-of-the-art functions like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Advait Vagerwal

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ilkay Sikdokur , Inci Baytas , Arda Yurdakul

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used extensively in medical image segmentation and hence 3D navigation for robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MISs). However, current DCNNs usually use down sampling layers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Xiao-Yun Zhou , Jian-Qing Zheng , Peichao Li , Guang-Zhong Yang

We consider neural networks with rational activation functions. The choice of the nonlinear activation function in deep learning architectures is crucial and heavily impacts the performance of a neural network. We establish optimal bounds…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nicolas Boullé , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Alex Townsend

Normalization layers and activation functions are fundamental components in deep networks and typically co-locate with each other. Here we propose to design them using an automated approach. Instead of designing them separately, we unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Hanxiao Liu , Andrew Brock , Karen Simonyan , Quoc V. Le

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in numerous domains due to their high performance and accessibility to developers and application-specific end-users. Fundamental to image-based applications is the development of Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Emily Kaczmarek , Olivier X. Miguel , Alexa C. Bowie , Robin Ducharme , Alysha L. J. Dingwall-Harvey , Steven Hawken , Christine M. Armour , Mark C. Walker , Kevin Dick

The classification of sentences is very challenging, since sentences contain the limited contextual information. In this paper, we proposed an Attention-Gated Convolutional Neural Network (AGCNN) for sentence classification, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Yang Liu , Lixin Ji , Ruiyang Huang , Tuosiyu Ming , Chao Gao , Jianpeng Zhang

Activation function is a pivotal component of deep learning, facilitating the extraction of intricate data patterns. While classical activation functions like ReLU and its variants are extensively utilized, their static nature and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Barathi Subramanian , Rathinaraja Jeyaraj , Rakhmonov Akhrorjon Akhmadjon Ugli

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in computer vision, especially in image classification. However, the way in which information and invariance properties are encoded through in deep CNN architectures is still an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Michael Blot , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

Very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) yield state of the art results on a wide variety of visual recognition problems. A number of state of the the art methods for image recognition are based on networks with well over 100 layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Joel Moniz , Christopher Pal

In this paper, we introduce "Power Linear Unit" (PoLU) which increases the nonlinearity capacity of a neural network and thus helps improving its performance. PoLU adopts several advantages of previously proposed activation functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Yikang Li , Pak Lun Kevin Ding , Baoxin Li

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a special type of Neural Networks, which has shown exemplary performance on several competitions related to Computer Vision and Image Processing. Some of the exciting application areas of CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Asifullah Khan , Anabia Sohail , Umme Zahoora , Aqsa Saeed Qureshi