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Recent work in Deep Learning has re-imagined the representation of data as functions mapping from a coordinate space to an underlying continuous signal. When such functions are approximated by neural networks this introduces a compelling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-09 Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Yee Whye Teh

Shape priors learned from data are commonly used to reconstruct 3D objects from partial or noisy data. Yet no such shape priors are available for indoor scenes, since typical 3D autoencoders cannot handle their scale, complexity, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Chiyu Max Jiang , Avneesh Sud , Ameesh Makadia , Jingwei Huang , Matthias Nießner , Thomas Funkhouser

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) offer exceptional fidelity for video compression by learning per-video optimized functions, but their adoption is crippled by impractically slow encoding times. Existing attempts to accelerate INR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vikram Rangarajan , Shishira Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Abhinav Shrivastava

Vector-mode geospatial data -- points, lines, and polygons -- must be encoded into an appropriate form in order to be used with traditional machine learning and artificial intelligence models. Encoding methods attempt to represent a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 John Collins

We introduce STRING: Separable Translationally Invariant Position Encodings. STRING extends Rotary Position Encodings, a recently proposed and widely used algorithm in large language models, via a unifying theoretical framework.…

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have gained popularity for encoding signals as compact, differentiable entities. While commonly using techniques like Fourier positional encodings or non-traditional activation functions (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Hemanth Saratchandran , Sameera Ramasinghe , Violetta Shevchenko , Alexander Long , Simon Lucey

We consider the problem of learning implicit neural representations (INRs) for signals on non-Euclidean domains. In the Euclidean case, INRs are trained on a discrete sampling of a signal over a regular lattice. Here, we assume that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Daniele Grattarola , Pierre Vandergheynst

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for medical imaging via physics-informed unsupervised learning. Classical INRs optimize an entire network from scratch for each subject, leading to inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qing Wu , Xuanyu Tian , Chenhe Du , Haonan Zhang , Xiao Wang , Le Lu , Yuyao Zhang

Encoding 3D points is one of the primary steps in learning-based implicit scene representation. Using features that gather information from neighbors with multi-resolution grids has proven to be the best geometric encoder for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Arihant Gaur , G. Dias Pais , Pedro Miraldo

Attentional mechanisms are order-invariant. Positional encoding is a crucial component to allow attention-based deep model architectures such as Transformer to address sequences or images where the position of information matters. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yang Li , Si Si , Gang Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Samy Bengio

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) encoding continuous multi-media data via multi-layer perceptrons has shown undebatable promise in various computer vision tasks. Despite many successful applications, editing and processing an INR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Dejia Xu , Peihao Wang , Yifan Jiang , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang

$\textit{Implicit neural representations}$ (INRs) aim to learn a $\textit{continuous function}$ (i.e., a neural network) to represent an image, where the input and output of the function are pixel coordinates and RGB/Gray values,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ke Liu , Feng Liu , Haishuai Wang , Ning Ma , Jiajun Bu , Bo Han

Approaches to signal representation and coding theory have traditionally focused on how to best represent signals using parsimonious representations that incur the lowest possible distortion. Classical examples include linear and non-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Petros T Boufounos , Shantanu Rane , Hassan Mansour

Relative position encoding (RPE) is important for transformer to capture sequence ordering of input tokens. General efficacy has been proven in natural language processing. However, in computer vision, its efficacy is not well studied and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kan Wu , Houwen Peng , Minghao Chen , Jianlong Fu , Hongyang Chao

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged in the last few years as a powerful tool to encode continuously a variety of different signals like images, videos, audio and 3D shapes. When applied to 3D shapes, INRs allow to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Luca De Luigi , Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

We propose a novel positional encoding for learning graph on Transformer architecture. Existing approaches either linearize a graph to encode absolute position in the sequence of nodes, or encode relative position with another node using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wonpyo Park , Woonggi Chang , Donggeon Lee , Juntae Kim , Seung-won Hwang

Learning node representations that incorporate information from graph structure benefits wide range of tasks on graph. The majority of existing graph neural networks (GNNs) have limited power in capturing position information for a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yuheng Lu , Jinpeng Chen , ChuXiong Sun , Jie Hu

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have demonstrated success in a variety of applications, including inverse problems and neural rendering. An INR is typically trained to capture one signal of interest, resulting in learned neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kushal Vyas , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Aniket Dashpute , Richard G. Baraniuk , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Representing a signal as a continuous function parameterized by neural network (a.k.a. Implicit Neural Representations, INRs) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Neural Processes (NPs), which model the distributions over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zongyu Guo , Cuiling Lan , Zhizheng Zhang , Yan Lu , Zhibo Chen

Is the center position fully capable of representing a pixel? There is nothing wrong to represent pixels with their centers in a discrete image representation, but it makes more sense to consider each pixel as the aggregation of signals…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Ying-Tian Liu , Yuan-Chen Guo , Song-Hai Zhang