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Symmetry-informed machine learning can exhibit advantages over machine learning which fails to account for symmetry. In the context of continuous symmetry detection, current state of the art experiments are largely limited to detecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Ben Shaw , Sasidhar Kunapuli , Abram Magner , Kevin R. Moon

Symmetry is prevalent in nature and a common theme in man-made designs. Both the human visual system and computer vision algorithms can use symmetry to facilitate object recognition and other tasks. Detecting mirror symmetry in images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Marcelo Cicconet , David G. C. Hildebrand , Hunter Elliott

This paper studies the problem of identifying directions of axial symmetry in multivariate distributions. Theoretical results are derived on how the measure or cardinality of the set of symmetry directions relates to spherical symmetry. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Ricardo Fraiman , Manuel Hernández-Banadik , Stanislav Nagy

This paper introduces the point-axis representation for oriented object detection, emphasizing its flexibility and geometrically intuitive nature with two key components: points and axes. 1) Points delineate the spatial extent and contours…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zeyang Zhao , Qilong Xue , Yuhang He , Yifan Bai , Xing Wei , Yihong Gong

Recent advances have shown that symmetry, a structural prior that most objects exhibit, can support a variety of single-view 3D understanding tasks. However, detecting 3D symmetry from an image remains a challenging task. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yichao Zhou , Shichen Liu , Yi Ma

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

Humans take advantage of real world symmetries for various tasks, yet capturing their superb symmetry perception mechanism with a computational model remains elusive. Motivated by a new study demonstrating the extremely high inter-person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Christopher Funk , Yanxi Liu

Many man-made objects are characterised by a shape that is symmetric along one or more planar directions. Estimating the location and orientation of such symmetry planes can aid many tasks such as estimating the overall orientation of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Tommaso Cavallari

Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) empowers models to explore underlying symmetry in data, improving performance. However, real-world scenarios often deviate from ideal symmetric systems caused by physical permutation, characterized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhiqiang Wu , Yingjie Liu , Hanlin Dong , Xuan Tang , Jian Yang , Bo Jin , Mingsong Chen , Xian Wei

Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

We introduce an approach based on moving frames for polygon recognition and symmetry detection. We present detailed algorithms for recognition of polygons modulo the special Euclidean, Euclidean, equi-affine, skewed-affine and similarity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mireille Boutin

Equivariant neural networks incorporate symmetries into their architecture, achieving higher generalization performance. However, constructing equivariant neural networks typically requires prior knowledge of data types and symmetries,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lexiang Hu , Yikang Li , Zhouchen Lin

Collision detection is a critical functionality for robotics. The degree to which objects collide cannot be represented as a continuously differentiable function for any shapes other than spheres. This paper proposes a framework for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Andrew Cinar , Yue Zhao , Forrest Laine

Modeling symmetry breaking is essential for understanding the fundamental changes in the behaviors and properties of physical systems, from microscopic particle interactions to macroscopic phenomena like fluid dynamics and cosmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Rui Wang , Elyssa Hofgard , Han Gao , Robin Walters , Tess E. Smidt

Symmetry detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and symmetries serve as powerful priors for downstream tasks. However, existing learning-based methods for detecting 3D symmetries from single images have been almost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hanyu Chen , Ruojin Cai , Steve Marschner , Noah Snavely

We introduce group crosscoders, an extension of crosscoders that systematically discover and analyse symmetrical features in neural networks. While neural networks often develop equivariant representations without explicit architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Liv Gorton

We consider the problem of learning a function respecting a symmetry from among a class of symmetries. We develop a unified framework that enables symmetry discovery across a broad range of subgroups including locally symmetric, dihedral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Pavan Karjol , Rohan Kashyap , Aditya Gopalan , Prathosh A. P

We propose a template matching method for the detection of 2D image objects that are characterized by orientation patterns. Our method is based on data representations via orientation scores, which are functions on the space of positions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Erik J. Bekkers , Marco Loog , Bart M. ter Haar Romeny , Remco Duits

Detecting the reflection symmetry plane of an object represented by a 3D point cloud is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision and geometry processing due to its various applications, such as compression, object detection, robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rajendra Nagar

3D reconstruction from a single RGB image is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous methods are usually solely data-driven, which lead to inaccurate 3D shape recovery and limited generalization capability. In this work, we focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yichao Zhou , Shichen Liu , Yi Ma