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In visual recognition, the key to the performance improvement of ResNet is the success in establishing the stack of deep sequential convolutional layers using identical mapping by a shortcut connection. It results in multiple paths of data…
In this paper, we propose to use the general $L^2$-based Sobolev norms, i.e., $H^s$ norms where $s\in \mathbb{R}$, to measure the data discrepancy due to noise in image processing tasks that are formulated as optimization problems. As…
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