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Concept erasure has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate undesired or unsafe content in diffusion models, yet existing methods still face significant limitations. While training-based methods are effective, their high computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Haoxiang Xu , Fengyuan Miao , Zhuoer Xu , Hongtao Xie

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

Accurate capacitance extraction is becoming more important for designing integrated circuits under advanced process technology. The pattern matching based full-chip extraction methodology delivers fast computational speed, but suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Yuanbo Guo , Wenjie Liang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded remarkably in various computer vision tasks. However, they are not intrinsically explainable. While the feature-level understanding of CNNs reveals where the models looked, concept-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ugochukwu Ejike Akpudo , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou , Andrew Lewis

The development of generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NVS) models is critically limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data featuring diverse and precise camera trajectories. While real-world captures are photorealistic, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chenhan Jiang , Yu Chen , Qingwen Zhang , Jifei Song , Songcen Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Jiankang Deng

Machine Unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data or concepts from trained models while preserving overall performance, a capability increasingly required by data protection regulations and responsible AI practices. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Natnael Mola , Leonardo S. B. Pereira , Carolina R. Kelsch , Luis H. Arribas , Juan C. S. M. Avedillo

Brain extraction (skull stripping) is a challenging problem in neuroimaging. It is due to the variability in conditions from data acquisition or abnormalities in images, making brain morphology and intensity characteristics changeable and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Duy H. M. Nguyen , Duy M. Nguyen , Mai T. N. Truong , Thu Nguyen , Khanh T. Tran , Nguyen A. Triet , Pham T. Bao , Binh T. Nguyen

Unsupervised Concept Extraction aims to extract concepts from a single image; however, existing methods suffer from the inability to extract composable intrinsic concepts. To address this, this paper introduces a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hanyu Shi , Hong Tao , Guoheng Huang , Jianbin Jiang , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shanhu Wang , Pan Pan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been pivotal in finding optimal network configurations for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). While many methods explore NAS from a global search-space perspective, the employed optimization schemes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yi Ru Wang , Samir Khaki , Weihang Zheng , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

The ability to accurately detect and classify objects at varying pixel sizes in cluttered scenes is crucial to many Navy applications. However, detection performance of existing state-of the-art approaches such as convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 JT Turner , Kalyan Moy Gupta , David Aha

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) were the driving force behind many advancements in Computer Vision research in recent years. This progress has spawned many practical applications and we see an increased need to efficiently move CNNs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Thomas Kurbiel , Shahrzad Khaleghian

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance on a range of tasks. A key step to further empowering DNN-based approaches is improving their explainability. In this work we present CME: a concept-based model extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dmitry Kazhdan , Botty Dimanov , Mateja Jamnik , Pietro Liò , Adrian Weller

Spatial attention has been introduced to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving both their performance and interpretability in visual tasks including image classification. The essence of the spatial attention is to learn a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Linchuan Xu , Jun Huang , Atsushi Nitanda , Ryo Asaoka , Kenji Yamanishi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) compression is crucial to deploying these models in edge devices with limited resources. Existing channel pruning algorithms for CNNs have achieved plenty of success on complex models. They approach the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Shangqian Gao , Heng Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been tremendously successful in solving imaging inverse problems. To understand their success, an effective strategy is to construct simpler and mathematically more tractable convolutional sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Tianlin Liu , Anadi Chaman , David Belius , Ivan Dokmanić

We present a novelty detection framework for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) sensors that we call Sensor-Activated Feature Extraction One-Class Classification (SAFE-OCC). We show that this framework enables the safe use of computer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Joshua L. Pulsipher , Luke D. J. Coutinho , Tyler A. Soderstrom , Victor M. Zavala

An important line of research attempts to explain CNN image classifier predictions and intermediate layer representations in terms of human-understandable concepts. Previous work supports that deep representations are linearly separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Stylianos Asteriadis , Dimitrios Zarpalas

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable results in image classification for benchmark tasks and practical applications. The CNNs with deeper architectures have achieved even higher performance recently thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ryo Takahashi , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

Convolutional Neural Networks have dramatically improved in recent years, surpassing human accuracy on certain problems and performance exceeding that of traditional computer vision algorithms. While the compute pattern in itself is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Michaela Blott , Thomas B. Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth OBrien , Yaman Umuroglu , Miriam Leeser

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield