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Implementations of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix-based neural networks for neural decoding remain fragmented across research codebases and Python packages. Existing implementations often employ ad hoc handling of manifold…

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Machine learning for scientific applications faces the challenge of limited data. We propose a framework that leverages a priori known physics to reduce overfitting when training on relatively small datasets. A deep neural network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jonathan B. Freund , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

Riemannian neural networks, which extend deep learning techniques to Riemannian spaces, have gained significant attention in machine learning. To better classify the manifold-valued features, researchers have started extending Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Rui Wang , Xiaojun Wu , Nicu Sebe

Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Azadeh Alavi , Arnold Wiliem , Kun Zhao , Brian C. Lovell , Conrad Sanderson

Particle-based shape modeling (PSM) is a popular approach to automatically quantify shape variability in populations of anatomies. The PSM family of methods employs optimization to automatically populate a dense set of corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

In image set classification, a considerable advance has been made by modeling the original image sets by second order statistics or linear subspace, which typically lie on the Riemannian manifold. Specifically, they are Symmetric Positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Rui Wang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Kai-Xuan Chen , Josef Kittler

State space models (SSM) have recently been shown to be very effective as a deep learning layer as a promising alternative to sequence models such as RNNs, CNNs, or Transformers. The first version to show this potential was the S4 model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Albert Gu , Ankit Gupta , Karan Goel , Christopher Ré

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) has become a ubiquitous tool for camera calibration and scene reconstruction with many downstream applications in computer vision and beyond. While the state-of-the-art SfM pipelines have reached a high level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shaohui Liu , Yidan Gao , Tianyi Zhang , Rémi Pautrat , Johannes L. Schönberger , Viktor Larsson , Marc Pollefeys

Recent progress in geometric deep learning has drawn increasing attention from the machine learning community toward domain adaptation on symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds, especially for neuroimaging data that often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ce Ju , Cuntai Guan

This paper introduces a new metric and mean on the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed-rank. The proposed metric is derived from a well-chosen Riemannian quotient geometry that generalizes the reductive geometry of the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

The paper addresses the problem of learning a regression model parameterized by a fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrix. The focus is on the nonlinear nature of the search space and on scalability to high-dimensional problems. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Gilles Meyer , Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

We explore the use of tools from Riemannian geometry for the analysis of symmetric positive definite matrices (SPD). An SPD matrix is a versatile data representation that is commonly used in chemical engineering (e.g.,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-24 Alexander Smith , Benjamin Laubach , Ivan Castillo , Victor M. Zavala

We propose Pullback Flow Matching (PFM), a novel framework for generative modeling on data manifolds. Unlike existing methods that assume or learn restrictive closed-form manifold mappings for training Riemannian Flow Matching (RFM) models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Friso de Kruiff , Erik Bekkers , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Willem Diepeveen

Standard convolutions are prevalent in image processing and deep learning, but their fixed kernels limits adaptability. Several deformation strategies of the reference kernel grid have been proposed. Yet, they lack a unified theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Thomas Dagès , Michael Lindenbaum , Alfred M. Bruckstein

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji

We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for local features and robust estimation algorithms, focusing on the downstream task -- the accuracy of the reconstructed camera pose -- as our primary metric. Our pipeline's modular structure allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yuhe Jin , Dmytro Mishkin , Anastasiia Mishchuk , Jiri Matas , Pascal Fua , Kwang Moo Yi , Eduard Trulls

Mechanical metamaterials utilize geometry to achieve exceptional mechanical properties, including those not typically possible for traditional materials. To achieve these properties, it is necessary to identify the proper structures and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiakun Liu , Adam Taylor , Sage Fulco , Sumukh S. Pande , Kevin T. Turner

Deep neural networks for learning Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices are gaining increasing attention in machine learning. Despite the significant progress, most existing SPD networks use traditional Euclidean classifiers on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Xiaojun Wu , Nicu Sebe

The need for consistent treatment of uncertainty has recently triggered increased interest in probabilistic deep learning methods. However, most current approaches have severe limitations when it comes to inference, since many of these…

We present a method for obtaining efficient probabilistic solutions to geostatistical and linear inverse problems in spherical geometry. Our Spherical Direct Sequential Simulation (SDSSIM) framework combines information from possibly noisy…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 Mikkel Otzen , Christopher C. Finlay , Thomas Mejer Hansen