Efficient CNN for VQA achieves similar performance to standard models.
problem Computational intensity of standard VQA models.
method Proposes a sparsely activated CNN architecture.
result Sparsely activated CNN achieves comparable performance.
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Net2Vis automates CNN visualization for publications.
problem Lack of consistent visual representations in deep learning papers.
method Proposes a visual grammar and automated system for generating publication-ready CNN visualizations.
result Reduces time and ambiguity in generating network visualizations.
JD.com uses a new CNN model to improve ad click prediction.
problem Improving CTR prediction for ads with visual content.
method Proposes Category-specific CNN (CSCNN) to incorporate category knowledge early in the feature extraction process.
result CSCNN outperforms existing methods in CTR prediction.
In recent years, deep learning poses a deep technical revolution in almost every field and attracts great attentions from industry and academia. Especially, the convolutional neural network (CNN), one representative model of deep learning, achieves great successes in computer vision and natural language processing. How…
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on visual object classification tasks. In addition, it is a useful model for predication of neuronal responses recorded in visual system. However, there is still no clear understanding of what CNNs learn in terms of visual neuronal circu…
Adds a precortical module to CNNs for improved robustness to light variations.
problem Robustness of CNNs to global light intensity and contrast variations.
method Developed a mathematical model of the mammalian visual pathway, inspired by CNNs, and added a preliminary convolutional module.
result Significantly more robust CNNs achieved with added module on MNIST, FashionMNIST, and SVHN databases.
We propose a technique for making Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models more transparent by visualizing input regions that are 'important' for predictions -- or visual explanations. Our approach, called Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses class-specific gradient information to localize…
In image classification, visual separability between different object categories is highly uneven, and some categories are more difficult to distinguish than others. Such difficult categories demand more dedicated classifiers. However, existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are trained as flat N-way classifi…
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Modern vision-based reinforcement learning techniques often use convolutional neural networks (CNN) as universal function approximators to choose which action to take for a given visual input. Until recently, CNNs have been treated like black-box functions, but this mindset is especially dangerous when used for control…
We generate transformation-invariant CNNs using context-aware filters.
problem Creating transformation-invariant neural networks for image recognition.
method Input-conditioned convolution filters combined with max-pooling and multi-instance learning.
result Significantly improved error rates on MNIST variations (1.13% on MNIST-rot-12k, 1.12% on Half-rotated MNIST, 0.68% on Scaling MNIST).
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the driving forces for the advancement of computer vision. Despite their promising performances on many tasks, CNNs still face major obstacles on the road to achieving ideal machine intelligence. One is that CNNs are complex and hard to interpret. Another is that standard…
We develop three efficient approaches for generating visual explanations from 3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNNs) for Alzheimer's disease classification. One approach conducts sensitivity analysis on hierarchical 3D image segmentation, and the other two visualize network activations on a spatial map. Visual chec…
This paper presents our approach to the One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Recognition (OMG-Emotion) Challenge, focusing on dimensional emotion recognition through visual analysis of the provided emotion videos. The approach is based on a Convolutional and Recurrent (CNN-RNN) deep neural architecture we have developed for the …
Paper presents a CNN-RNN method for multi-dimensional emotion recognition in-the-wild.
problem Dimensional emotion recognition in real-world scenarios.
method Pre-training with Aff-Wild and Aff-Wild2, extracting low-, mid-, and high-level features, using RNN subnets in a multi-task framework, and fusion of networks.
result Our approach outperformed state-of-the-art methods using only visual information.
Deep neural networks have been developed drawing inspiration from the brain visual pathway, implementing an end-to-end approach: from image data to video object classes. However building an fMRI decoder with the typical structure of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), i.e. learning multiple level of representations, se…
Unified model for automated driving tasks improves efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficiently handle multiple visual perception tasks in automated driving systems.
method Joint multi-task network design sharing convolutional layers, multi-stream learning, auxiliary learning.
result Unified model outperforms single-task models in many cases.
3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D-CNN) have been used for object recognition based on the voxelized shape of an object. However, interpreting the decision making process of these 3D-CNNs is still an infeasible task. In this paper, we present a unique 3D-CNN based Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping method (3D…
Images have become one of the most popular types of media through which users convey their emotions within online social networks. Although vast amount of research is devoted to sentiment analysis of textual data, there has been very limited work that focuses on analyzing sentiment of image data. In this work, we propo…
Method generates visual explanations for similarity models without classification.
problem Lack of visual explanations for similarity models trained without classification loss.
method Gradient-based visual attention using learned feature embeddings.
result Attention maps improve model performance and can be used as constraints.
Mobile app uses CNN to help visually impaired cross streets.
problem Helping visually impaired cross streets safely.
method LytNetV2 deep learning model for pedestrian traffic light detection.
result 96% classification accuracy and 6.15 degree angle error.
Augment small datasets with synthetic backgrounds to train lightweight CNNs for human pose estimation.
problem Training CNNs from limited real-world data for human pose estimation.
method Synthetic background substitution for data augmentation.
result Improves generalization to unseen environments.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in computer vision. However, interpreting CNNs still remains a challenge. This is mainly due to the large number of parameters in these networks. Here, we investigate the role of compression and particularly pruning fil…
Proposes neural similarity for CNNs to enhance flexibility and performance.
problem Limited flexibility of inner product-based convolution in CNNs.
method Introduces neural similarity as a learnable parametric similarity measure, and proposes NSL for adaptive learning from data.
result Dynamic neural similarity improves flexibility and performance in visual recognition and few-shot learning.
Selecting the most appropriate data examples to present a deep neural network (DNN) at different stages of training is an unsolved challenge. Though practitioners typically ignore this problem, a non-trivial data scheduling method may result in a significant improvement in both convergence and generalization performanc…
Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) are neural oscillations from the parietal and occipital regions of the brain that are evoked from flickering visual stimuli. SSVEPs are robust signals measurable in the electroencephalogram (EEG) and are commonly used in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, methods f…
This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., the explainer uses interpretable visual concepts to explain features in middle conv-layers of a CNN. Given feature maps of a conv-layer of the CNN, the explaine…
AVH scores measure sample hardness, improving model calibration.
problem CNNs' poor calibration and overconfidence issues.
method AVH score based on normalized angular distance between feature embeddings and target classifiers.
result AVH scores correlate with human visual hardness and improve model calibration.
A new method extracts linguistic objects from text using CNNs.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for text.
method Weighted extension of Text Deconvolution Saliency (wTDS) measure.
result Extracts interpretable linguistic objects from text.
An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is encoded by a reproducing kernel. Unlike traditional approaches where neural networks …
AT-CNNs show improved shape recognition over texture recognition.
problem Understanding adversarial training's impact on CNNs' feature learning.
method Systematic qualitative and quantitative approaches to interpret AT-CNNs.
result Adversarial training reduces texture bias and improves shape recognition.
Study predicts lens performance using neural networks.
problem Predicting visual acuity from lens designs.
method Used a CNN to classify Landolt Cs and validate its ability to predict VA from induced defocus.
result Validation showed consistent offset of +0.20 logMAR from simulated VA, comparable to clinical repeatability.
Ego-CNN detects critical structures in graphs efficiently.
problem Lack of precise detection of critical structures in existing graph embedding models.
method Ego-CNN uses ego-convolutions at each layer and stacks them in an ego-centric way.
result Ego-CNN achieves comparable task performance to state-of-the-art models and can incorporate scale-free priors.
DEMUD-VIS detects novel image content and explains it visually.
problem Detecting and explaining novel image content in large datasets.
method Uses CNN for feature extraction, reconstruction error for novelty detection, and up-convolutional networks for image reconstruction.
result Demonstrates visual explanations of novel image content on diverse datasets.
A new system detects and classifies defects in semiconductor manufacturing.
problem Detecting and classifying novel defect patterns in high-resolution imagery.
method Stacked hybrid convolutional neural networks (SH-CNN) with visual attention.
result SH-CNN outperforms current approaches in automated visual inspection.
Ensemble learning is a method of combining multiple trained models to improve model accuracy. We propose the usage of such methods, specifically ensemble average, inside Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures by replacing the single convolutional layers with Inner Average Ensembles (IEA) of multiple convoluti…
A method improves capsule networks by reducing information dilution and enhancing performance.
problem Capsule networks struggle with datasets containing background and complex objects.
method Restrict the activation values of primary capsule layers to highlight discriminative capsules.
result The method achieves better performance on various datasets.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective at solving difficult problems like visual recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing. However, performance gain comes at the cost of laborious trial-and-error in designing deeper CNN architectures. In this paper, a genetic programming (GP) framewor…
Vision Transformers show different internal representations compared to CNNs.
problem Understanding how Vision Transformers solve image classification tasks.
method Comparative analysis of ViT and CNN architectures on image classification benchmarks.
result ViT has more uniform representations across all layers, while CNNs have more varied representations.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as a popular building block for natural language processing (NLP). Despite their success, most existing CNN models employed in NLP share the same learned (and static) set of filters for all input sentences. In this paper, we consider an approach of using a smal…
Proposes GPCA module for channel attention in CNNs using Gaussian processes.
problem Improving performance in visual tasks through effective channel selection.
method Integrates Gaussian processes into channel attention mechanisms for probabilistic modeling of channel correlations.
result Demonstrates improved performance of GPCA module in end-to-end CNN training.
Layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) is a recently proposed technique for explaining predictions of complex non-linear classifiers in terms of input variables. In this paper, we apply LRP for the first time to natural language processing (NLP). More precisely, we use it to explain the predictions of a convolutional n…
Neuroscientists classify neurons into different types that perform similar computations at different locations in the visual field. Traditional methods for neural system identification do not capitalize on this separation of 'what' and 'where'. Learning deep convolutional feature spaces that are shared among many neuro…
CNN improves OSA diagnosis accuracy from PSG data.
problem Manual PSG analysis by specialists is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to errors.
method 1D CNN architecture with convolutional and FCN layers for OSA severity classification.
result Proposed CNN model achieves excellent classification results without manual preprocessing.
Transforms improve CNNs' invariance to image transformations.
problem Current CNN models lack robustness to spatial transformations.
method Randomly transform feature maps during training to learn invariant representations.
result Significant improvements on benchmark tasks, including image recognition and retrieval.
Protein-ligand scoring is an important step in a structure-based drug design pipeline. Selecting a correct binding pose and predicting the binding affinity of a protein-ligand complex enables effective virtual screening. Machine learning techniques can make use of the increasing amounts of structural data that are beco…
Classical models describe primary visual cortex (V1) as a filter bank of orientation-selective linear-nonlinear (LN) or energy models, but these models fail to predict neural responses to natural stimuli accurately. Recent work shows that models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) lead to much more accurate p…