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Correctly capturing the symmetry transformations of data can lead to efficient models with strong generalization capabilities, though methods incorporating symmetries often require prior knowledge. While recent advancements have been made…

A method is presented for finding the Lie point symmetry transformations acting simultaneously on difference equations and lattices, while leaving the solution set of the corresponding difference scheme invariant. The method is applied to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Decio Levi , Sébastien Tremblay , Pavel Winternitz

The task of reflection symmetry detection remains challenging due to significant variations and ambiguities of symmetry patterns in the wild. Furthermore, since the local regions are required to match in reflection for detecting a symmetry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ahyun Seo , Woohyeon Shim , Minsu Cho

We present a fast algorithm for global rigid symmetry detection with approximation guarantees. The algorithm is guaranteed to find the best approximate symmetry of a given shape, to within a user-specified threshold, with very high…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Simon Korman , Roee Litman , Shai Avidan , Alex Bronstein

Symmetry detection and discrimination are of fundamental meaning in science, technology, and engineering. This paper introduces reflection invariants and defines the directional moment to detect symmetry for shape analysis and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Erbo Li , Hua Li

Identifying symmetries in data sets is generally difficult, but knowledge about them is crucial for efficient data handling. Here we present a method how neural networks can be used to identify symmetries. We make extensive use of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Sven Krippendorf , Marc Syvaeri

In this work, we propose CBiGAN -- a novel method for anomaly detection in images, where a consistency constraint is introduced as a regularization term in both the encoder and decoder of a BiGAN. Our model exhibits fairly good modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Fabio Carrara , Giuseppe Amato , Luca Brombin , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro

Fine-grained image search is still a challenging problem due to the difficulty in capturing subtle differences regardless of pose variations of objects from fine-grained categories. In practice, a dynamic inventory with new fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Kevin Lin , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

Exploiting symmetry inherent in data can significantly improve the sample efficiency of a learning procedure and the generalization of learned models. When data clearly reveals underlying symmetry, leveraging this symmetry can naturally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Gyeonghoon Ko , Hyunsu Kim , Juho Lee

Anomaly detection is the process of finding data points that deviate from a baseline. In a real-life setting, anomalies are usually unknown or extremely rare. Moreover, the detection must be accomplished in a timely manner or the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mariem Ben Fadhel , Kofi Nyarko

Symmetry is an important composition feature by investigating similar sides inside an image plane. It has a crucial effect to recognize man-made or nature objects within the universe. Recent symmetry detection approaches used a smoothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Mohamed Elawady , Olivier Alata , Christophe Ducottet , Cecile Barat , Philippe Colantoni

Reflectional symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. While extrinsic reflectional symmetry can be easily parametrized and detected, intrinsic symmetry is much harder due to the high solution space. Previous works usually solve this problem by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yi-Ling Qiao , Lin Gao , Shu-Zhi Liu , Ligang Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Xilin Chen

In this paper we observe that information theoretical concepts are valuable tools for extracting information from images and, in particular, information on image symmetries. It is shown that the problem of detecting reflectional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Agata Migalska , JP Lewis

Group equivariance can overly constrain models if the symmetries in the group differ from those observed in data. While common methods address this by determining the appropriate level of symmetry at the dataset level, they are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Alonso Urbano , David W. Romero

We design a deep-learning algorithm for the discovery and identification of the continuous group of symmetries present in a labeled dataset. We use fully connected neural networks to model the symmetry transformations and the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman , Eyup Unlu , Sarunas Verner

The inherent challenge of detecting symmetries stems from arbitrary orientations of symmetry patterns; a reflection symmetry mirrors itself against an axis with a specific orientation while a rotation symmetry matches its rotated copy with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ahyun Seo , Byungjin Kim , Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho

The increasing realism of generated images has raised significant concerns about their potential misuse, necessitating robust detection methods. Current approaches mainly rely on training binary classifiers, which depend heavily on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yonggang Zhang , Jun Nie , Xinmei Tian , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Bo Han

The detection of Dark Matter (DM) remains a significant challenge in particle physics. This study exploits advanced machine learning models to improve detection capabilities of liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments, utilizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Andres D. Perez , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We propose a physics-informed anomaly detection framework for collider data based on a Bayesian latent diffusion model. Our method combines a probabilistic encoder with diffusion dynamics in the latent space, allowing for stable and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-27 Jigar Patel , Tommaso Dorigo

The robust and automated determination of crystal symmetry is of utmost importance in material characterization and analysis. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively reveal the correlations between X-ray or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Jeongrae Kim , Sang Soo Han , Donghun Kim