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Capsule networks promise significant benefits over convolutional networks by storing stronger internal representations, and routing information based on the agreement between intermediate representations' projections. Despite this, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rodney Lalonde , Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

A capsule is a group of neurons whose activity vector represents the instantiation parameters of a specific type of entity such as an object or an object part. We use the length of the activity vector to represent the probability that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sara Sabour , Nicholas Frosst , Geoffrey E Hinton

Image classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of object in the image. In recent years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to handle this task, and impressive improvement has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hao Ren , Jianlin Su , Hong Lu

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

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

Recently, the growth of deep learning has produced a large number of deep neural networks. How to describe these networks unifiedly is becoming an important issue. We first formalize neural networks in a mathematical definition, give their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yujian Li , Chuanhui Shan

Capsule network was introduced as a new architecture of neural networks, it encoding features as capsules to overcome the lacking of equivariant in the convolutional neural networks. It uses dynamic routing algorithm to train parameters in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qiang Ren

A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hongyang Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Capsule networks (see e.g. Hinton et al., 2018) aim to encode knowledge and reason about the relationship between an object and its parts. In this paper we specify a \emph{generative} model for such data, and derive a variational algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Alfredo Nazabal , Nikolaos Tsagkas , Christopher K. I. Williams

Past few years have witnessed exponential growth of interest in deep learning methodologies with rapidly improving accuracies and reduced computational complexity. In particular, architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Apoorva Sikka , Abhinav Dhall , Deepti Bathula

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

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

We propose an interpretable Capsule Network, iCaps, for image classification. A capsule is a group of neurons nested inside each layer, and the one in the last layer is called a class capsule, which is a vector whose norm indicates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Dahuin Jung , Jonghyun Lee , Jihun Yi , Sungroh Yoon

This project considers Capsule Networks, a recently introduced machine learning model that has shown promising results regarding generalization and preservation of spatial information with few parameters. The Capsule Network's inner routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Gonçalo Faria

Convolutional Neural Networks need the construction of informative features, which are determined by channel-wise and spatial-wise information at the network's layers. In this research, we focus on bringing in a novel solution that uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jerrin Bright , Suryaprakash Rajkumar , Arockia Selvakumar Arockia Doss

Capsule networks aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts and relations. While promising, they remain limited by an inability to learn effective low level part descriptions. To address this issue we propose a way to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Sara Sabour , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Soroosh Yazdani , Geoffrey E. Hinton , David J. Fleet

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

A capsule is a group of neurons whose activity vector models different properties of the same entity. This paper extends the capsule to a generative version, named variational capsules (VCs). Each VC produces a latent variable for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Huaibo Huang , Lingxiao Song , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

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

With the growth of deep learning, how to describe deep neural networks unifiedly is becoming an important issue. We first formalize neural networks mathematically with their directed graph representations, and prove a generation theorem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yujian Li , Chuanhui Shan