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We present a neural network architecture and training method designed to enable very rapid training and low implementation complexity. Due to its training speed and very few tunable parameters, the method has strong potential for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Mark D. McDonnell , Tony Vladusich

This work evaluates the compression techniques on ConvNeXt models in image classification tasks using the CIFAR-10 dataset. Structured pruning, unstructured pruning, and dynamic quantization methods are evaluated to reduce model size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Samer Francy , Raghubir Singh

Purpose: The aim of this work is to develop a neural network training framework for continual training of small amounts of medical imaging data and create heuristics to assess training in the absence of a hold-out validation or test set.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Sohaib Naim , Brian Caffo , Haris I Sair , Craig K Jones

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have rapidly risen in popularity for many machine learning applications, particularly in the field of image recognition. Much of the benefit generated from these networks comes from their ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Maxwell Henderson , Samriddhi Shakya , Shashindra Pradhan , Tristan Cook

This paper presents the development and evaluation of a custom Convolutional Neural Network (CustomCNN) created to study how architectural design choices affect multi-domain image classification tasks. The network uses residual connections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Shafkat Avro , Nazira Jesmin Lina , Shahanaz Sharmin

Network robustness is critical for various societal and industrial networks again malicious attacks. In particular, connectivity robustness and controllability robustness reflect how well a networked system can maintain its connectedness…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yang Lou , Ruizi Wu , Junli Li , Lin Wang , Xiang Li , Guanrong Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have had great success in many real-world applications and have also been used to model visual processing in the brain. However, these networks are quite brittle - small changes in the input image can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Brian Hu , Stefan Mihalas

In this paper, we present an ultra lightweight system that can effectively recognize different circuit components in an image with very limited training data. Along with the system, we also release the data set we created for the task. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Yingnan Ju , Yue Chen

We present a simple and effective architecture for fine-grained visual recognition called Bilinear Convolutional Neural Networks (B-CNNs). These networks represent an image as a pooled outer product of features derived from two CNNs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Tsung-Yu Lin , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Subhransu Maji

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. However, this achievement is preceded by extreme manual annotation in order to perform either training from scratch or fine-tuning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Filip Radenović , Giorgos Tolias , Ondřej Chum

The rapid advancement of deep learning in medical image analysis has greatly enhanced the accuracy of skin cancer classification. However, current state-of-the-art models, especially those based on transfer learning like ResNet50, come with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Abdullah Al Mamun , Pollob Chandra Ray , Md Rahat Ul Nasib , Akash Das , Jia Uddin , Md Nurul Absur

This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

Machine learning models have become an essential tool in current indoor positioning solutions, given their high capabilities to extract meaningful information from the environment. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Darwin Quezada-Gaibor , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Jari Nurmi , Yevgeni Koucheryavy , Joaquín Huerta

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced deep learning, driving breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, medical diagnosis, object detection, and speech recognition. Architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Saddam Hussain Khan , Rashid Iqbal

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Abul Hasnat , Julien Bohné , Jonathan Milgram , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become widely adopted in gravitational wave (GW) detection pipelines due to their ability to automatically learn hierarchical features from raw strain data. However, the physical meaning of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jun Tian , He Wang , Jibo He , Yu Pan , Shuo Cao , Qingquan Jiang

Building a small-sized fast surveillance system model to fit on limited resource devices is a challenging, yet an important task. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have replaced traditional feature extraction and machine learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ali Farouk Khalifa , Hesham N. Elmahdy , Eman Badr

An important part of breast cancer staging is the assessment of the sentinel axillary node for early signs of tumor spreading. However, this assessment by pathologists is not always easy and retrospective surveys often requalify the status…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-30 Eric Bonnet

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

With recent rapid advances in photonic integrated circuits, it has been demonstrated that programmable photonic chips can be used to implement artificial neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a class of deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Jun Rong Ong , Chin Chun Ooi , Thomas Y. L. Ang , Soon Thor Lim , Ching Eng Png