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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

Deep neural networks, albeit their great success on feature learning in various computer vision tasks, are usually considered as impractical for online visual tracking because they require very long training time and a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Fatih Porikli

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be very successful in a wide range of image processing applications. However, due to their increasing number of model parameters and an increasing availability of large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Janine Weber

Most of the approaches for discovering visual attributes in images demand significant supervision, which is cumbersome to obtain. In this paper, we aim to discover visual attributes in a weakly supervised setting that is commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Sukrit Shankar , Vikas K. Garg , Roberto Cipolla

Deep learning networks generally use non-biological learning methods. By contrast, networks based on more biologically plausible learning, such as Hebbian learning, show comparatively poor performance and difficulties of implementation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Thomas Miconi

Learning in the brain is poorly understood and learning rules that respect biological constraints, yet yield deep hierarchical representations, are still unknown. Here, we propose a learning rule that takes inspiration from neuroscience and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bernd Illing , Jean Ventura , Guillaume Bellec , Wulfram Gerstner

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models have seen advanced improvements in performance in various domains, but lack of interpretability is a major barrier to assurance and regulation during operation for acceptance and deployment of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Wenli Yang , Guan Huang , Renjie Li , Jiahao Yu , Yanyu Chen , Quan Bai , Beyong Kang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer architectures offer strengths for modeling temporal data: CNNs excel at capturing local patterns and translational invariances, while transformers effectively model long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Stefano F. Stefenon , João P. Matos-Carvalho , Valderi R. Q. Leithardt , Kin-Choong Yow

In this paper, we present a novel method for dynamically expanding Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) during training, aimed at meeting the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable deep learning models. Our approach, drawing from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Blaise Appolinary , Alex Deaconu , Sophia Yang , Qingze , Li

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used in various domains due to their impressive capabilities. These models are typically composed of a large number of 2D convolutional (Conv2D) layers with numerous trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yinan Yu , Samuel Scheidegger , Tomas McKelvey

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been intensively used for multi-class segmentation of data from different modalities and achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, a common problem when dealing with large, high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Chengjia Wang , Tom MacGillivray , Gillian Macnaught , Guang Yang , David Newby

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the de facto standard in a diverse set of computer vision tasks for many years. Especially, deep neural networks based on seminal architectures such as U-shaped models with skip-connections or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Moein Shariatnia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Ehsan Adeli , Dorit Merhof

Lifelong learning and adaptability are two defining aspects of biological agents. Modern reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have shown significant progress in solving complex tasks, however once training is concluded, the found…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Elias Najarro , Sebastian Risi

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are useful for many practical tasks in machine learning. Synaptic weights, as well as neuron activation functions within the deep network are typically stored with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Moritz B. Milde , Daniel Neil , Alessandro Aimar , Tobi Delbruck , Giacomo Indiveri

Features extracted from Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have proven to be very effective in the context of Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). In recent work, biologically inspired \textit{Hebbian} learning algorithms have shown promises for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Gabriele Lagani , Davide Bacciu , Claudio Gallicchio , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Vasco Lopes , Paulo Fazendeiro

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

In this work we propose a novel approach to perform segmentation by leveraging the abstraction capabilities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our method is based on Hough voting, a strategy that allows for fully automatic…

We introduce an unsupervised visual representation learning system based entirely on local plasticity rules, without labels, backpropagation, or global error signals. The model is a VisNet-inspired hierarchical architecture combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Mehdi Fatan Serj , C. Alejandro Parraga , Xavier Otazu

Neural networks that can capture key principles underlying brain computation offer exciting new opportunities for developing artificial intelligence and brain-like computing algorithms. Such networks remain biologically plausible while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Naresh Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman