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The effectiveness of neural processes (NPs) in modelling posterior prediction maps -- the mapping from data to posterior predictive distributions -- has significantly improved since their inception. This improvement can be attributed to two…

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Chengxi Ye , Xiong Zhou , Tristan McKinney , Yanfeng Liu , Qinggang Zhou , Fedor Zhdanov

Supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used to solve imaging inverse problems, achieving state-of-the-art performance in numerous applications. However, despite their empirical success, these methods are poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Minh Hai Nguyen , Quoc Bao Do , Edouard Pauwels , Pierre Weiss

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved state of the art performance on both classification and segmentation tasks. Applying CNNs to microscopy images is challenging due to the lack of datasets labeled at the single cell level. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Oren Z. Kraus , Lei Jimmy Ba , Brendan Frey

The effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been substantially attributed to their built-in property of translation equivariance. However, CNNs do not have embedded mechanisms to handle other types of transformations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Ivan Sosnovik , Michał Szmaja , Arnold Smeulders

Modern deep convolutional networks (CNNs) are often criticized for not generalizing under distributional shifts. However, several recent breakthroughs in transfer learning suggest that these networks can cope with severe distribution shifts…

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection, it is quite challenging to exploit the changing information from the noisy difference image subject to the speckle. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale spatial pooling (MSSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jia-Wei Chen , Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Bo Liu , Licheng Jiao , Jie Zhang

We propose an unsupervised beamforming neural network (BNN) and a supervised reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) convolutional neural network (CNN) to optimize transmit beamforming and RIS coefficients of multi-input single-output…

Feature pooling layers (e.g., max pooling) in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) serve the dual purpose of providing increasingly abstract representations as well as yielding computational savings in subsequent convolutional layers. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shuangfei Zhai , Hui Wu , Abhishek Kumar , Yu Cheng , Yongxi Lu , Zhongfei Zhang , Rogerio Feris

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) use pooling to decrease the size of activation maps. This process is crucial to increase the receptive fields and to reduce computational requirements of subsequent convolutions. An important feature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe , Grigorios Kalliatakis

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been established as the main workhorse in image data processing; nonetheless, they require large amounts of data to train, often produce overconfident predictions, and frequently lack the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sarah Harkins Dayton , Hayden Everett , Ioannis Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

Motivated by the problem of learning with small sample sizes, this paper shows how to incorporate into support-vector machines (SVMs) those properties that have made convolutional neural networks (CNNs) successful. Particularly important is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Tao Liu , P. R. Kumar , Ruida Zhou , Xi Liu

Spatial transformer networks (STNs) were designed to enable convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn invariance to image transformations. STNs were originally proposed to transform CNN feature maps as well as input images. This enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Lukas Finnveden , Ylva Jansson , Tony Lindeberg

We introduce the Convolutional Conditional Neural Process (ConvCNP), a new member of the Neural Process family that models translation equivariance in the data. Translation equivariance is an important inductive bias for many learning…

Contrastive self-supervised learning has gained attention for its ability to create high-quality representations from large unlabelled data sets. A key reason that these powerful features enable data-efficient learning of downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Calum Heggan , Tim Hospedales , Sam Budgett , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

We propose methods to strengthen the invariance properties of representations obtained by contrastive learning. While existing approaches implicitly induce a degree of invariance as representations are learned, we look to more directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Adam Foster , Rattana Pukdee , Tom Rainforth

In many machine learning tasks it is desirable that a model's prediction transforms in an equivariant way under transformations of its input. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) implement translational equivariance by construction; for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Maurice Weiler , Fred A. Hamprecht , Martin Storath

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are prone to overfit small training datasets. We present a novel two-phase pipeline that leverages self-supervised learning and knowledge distillation to improve the generalization ability of CNN models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Bingchen Zhao , Xin Wen

Although CNNs are believed to be invariant to translations, recent works have shown this is not the case, due to aliasing effects that stem from downsampling layers. The existing architectural solutions to prevent aliasing are partial since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hagay Michaeli , Tomer Michaeli , Daniel Soudry