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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at image classification but remain vulnerable to common corruptions that humans handle with ease. A key reason for this fragility is their reliance on local texture cues rather than global object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Robin Narsingh Ranabhat , Longwei Wang , Amit Kumar Patel , KC santosh

Self-supervised image denoising methods have garnered significant research attention in recent years, for this kind of method reduces the requirement of large training datasets. Compared to supervised methods, self-supervised methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hanze Liu , Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

The simplicity and effectiveness of the UNet architecture makes it ubiquitous in image restoration, image segmentation, and diffusion models. They are often assumed to be equivariant to translations, yet they traditionally consist of layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jérémy Scanvic , Quentin Barthélemy , Julián Tachella

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become increasingly important due to their excellent empirical performance on a wide range of problems. However, regularization is generally achieved by indirect means, largely due to the complex set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Amal Rannen Triki , Maxim Berman , Matthew B. Blaschko

Equivariance guarantees that a model's predictions capture key symmetries in data. When an image is translated or rotated, an equivariant model's representation of that image will translate or rotate accordingly. The success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nate Gruver , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Quantization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a common approach to ease the computational burden involved in the deployment of CNNs, especially on low-resource edge devices. However, fixed-point arithmetic is not natural to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ido Ben-Yair , Gil Ben Shalom , Moshe Eliasof , Eran Treister

Invariance to spatial transformations such as translations and rotations is a desirable property and a basic design principle for classification neural networks. However, the commonly used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yihan Wang , Lijia Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

In this work, we focus on using convolution neural networks (CNN) to perform object recognition on the event data. In object recognition, it is important for a neural network to be robust to the variations of the data during testing. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Ziyun Wang

In this work we propose a new neural network architecture that efficiently implements and learns general purpose set-equivariant functions. Such a function f maps a set of entities x = {x1, . . . , xn} from one domain to a set of same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Roland Vollgraf

Feature whitening is a known technique for speeding up training of DNN. Under certain assumptions, whitening the activations reduces the Fisher information matrix to a simple identity matrix, in which case stochastic gradient descent is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Shmulik Markovich-Golan , Barak Battash , Amit Bleiweiss

In the era of Foundation Models' (FMs) rising prominence in AI, our study addresses the challenge of biases in medical images while the model operates in black-box (e.g., using FM API), particularly spurious correlations between pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ruinan Jin , Wenlong Deng , Minghui Chen , Xiaoxiao Li

Spatial and intensity normalization are nowadays a prerequisite for neuroimaging analysis. Influenced by voxel-wise and other univariate comparisons, where these corrections are key, they are commonly applied to any type of analysis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Francisco J. Martinez-Murcia , Juan M. Górriz , Javier Ramírez , Andrés Ortiz

We propose Absum, which is a regularization method for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs can accurately recognize images, recent studies have shown that the convolution operations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-20 Sekitoshi Kanai , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Masanori Yamada , Shuichi Adachi

Symmetry-based neural networks often constrain the architecture in order to achieve invariance or equivariance to a group of transformations. In this paper, we propose an alternative that avoids this architectural constraint by learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Layer normalization (LayerNorm) is a technique to normalize the distributions of intermediate layers. It enables smoother gradients, faster training, and better generalization accuracy. However, it is still unclear where the effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun , Zhiyuan Zhang , Guangxiang Zhao , Junyang Lin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to be significantly over-parametrized, and difficult to interpret, train and adapt. In this paper, we introduce a structural regularization across convolutional kernels in a CNN. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ze Wang , Xiuyuan Cheng , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

We analyze the role of rotational equivariance in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to spherical images. We compare the performance of the group equivariant networks known as S2CNNs and standard non-equivariant CNNs trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Jan E. Gerken , Oscar Carlsson , Hampus Linander , Fredrik Ohlsson , Christoffer Petersson , Daniel Persson

Many problems in computer vision require dealing with sparse, unordered data in the form of point clouds. Permutation-equivariant networks have become a popular solution-they operate on individual data points with simple perceptrons and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Weiwei Sun , Wei Jiang , Eduard Trulls , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

This paper systematically explores neural functional networks (NFN) for transformer architectures. NFN are specialized neural networks that treat the weights, gradients, or sparsity patterns of a deep neural network (DNN) as input data and…