Capsule networks can only represent symmetric functions due to routing limitations.
problem Capsule networks' expressivity is limited to symmetric functions.
method Proved and empirically demonstrated that EM-routing and routing-by-agreement prevent capsule networks from distinguishing inputs and their negative counterpart.
result Capsule networks are not universal approximators due to the limitation of expressivity.
Capsule networks improve performance on image classification tasks with fewer parameters.
problem Improving performance of capsule networks with fewer parameters.
method Inverted dot-product attention routing, Layer Normalization, concurrent iterative routing.
result Improves performance on benchmark datasets CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and performs at-par with ResNet-18.
Capsules learn from expert neurons using dynamic routing.
problem Training complex multidimensional neural networks.
method Formulated capsule networks as a product of expert neurons with dynamic routing.
result Capsule networks can generate realistic images.
An unsupervised learning algorithm trains capsule networks for generating realistic images.
problem Training capsule networks for generating realistic images without labeled data.
method Developed an unsupervised learning algorithm using dynamic routing and an energy function for capsule networks.
result The algorithm successfully generates realistic looking images from a learned distribution.
Project learns to model Capsule Networks' routing procedures for better expressiveness.
problem Limited expressiveness of Capsule Networks' inner routing procedures.
method Proposes two ways to learn the routing procedure as a network parameter.
result Improved expressiveness of Capsule Networks through learned routing procedures.
A new capsule routing algorithm derived from Variational Bayes improves performance in neural networks.
problem Improving performance of capsule networks in recognizing objects and their parts.
method Proposed a new capsule routing algorithm derived from Variational Bayes to fit a mixture of transforming gaussians.
result Significant improvement in MNIST to affNIST generalization over previous works.
Capsule networks improve with dynamic routing using Wasserstein objective.
problem Capsule networks struggle to consistently outperform traditional neural networks.
method Dynamic routing scheme using approximate Wasserstein objective to select capsules.
result Capsule network achieves over 1.2% improvement on CIFAR-10 with fewer parameters.
Capsule networks improve at detecting changes in compositionality with routing.
problem Capsule networks struggle with detecting changes in compositionality.
method Introduced a loss function based on routing entropy to improve compositionality.
result Capsule networks with the new loss function better detect changes in compositionality.
3D capsule network for point clouds handles rotations and translations.
problem Processing 3D point clouds with equivariance and invariance.
method Quaternion equivariant capsule network with dynamic routing on quaternions.
result Parsimonious capsule network disentangles geometry and pose.
Researchers share pitfalls and improvements in implementing Hinton's capsule network.
problem Implementation pitfalls in Hinton's capsule network hindered progress in the field.
method Identifying and addressing common mistakes in capsule network implementations.
result Improved implementation of Hinton's capsule network outperforms existing open-source implementations.
A new capsule network framework that preserves input transformations.
problem Inefficiency in learning part-whole relationships and lack of equivariance guarantees in capsule networks.
method Proposes a new capsule network framework that learns to projectively encode pose-variations for every capsule-type of each layer using a trainable, equivariant function over a grid of group-transformations.
result The proposed framework is equivariant and preserves the compositional representation of an input under transformations.
A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the computational complexity becomes a bottleneck for scaling up to larger networks, …
Capsule Networks improve clothing retrieval without landmark info.
problem In-shop clothing retrieval performance improvement.
method Triplet-based Capsule Network architecture with SC and RC blocks.
result Triplet Capsule Networks outperform FashionNet and SOTA architectures.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable results over the last several years for a wide range of computer vision tasks. A new architecture recently introduced by Sabour et al., referred to as a capsule networks with dynamic routing, has shown great initial results for digit recognition and small image…
Deep CapsNet improves sign language recognition from wearable IMUs.
problem Continuous recognition of sign language from wearable devices.
method Custom CapsNet architecture using deep capsule networks and game theory.
result Improved accuracy of 94% and 92.50% for 3 and 5 routings respectively, compared to 87.99% for CNN.
In this paper we introduce a new inductive bias for capsule networks and call networks that use this prior γ-capsule networks. Our inductive bias that is inspired by TE neurons of the inferior temporal cortex increases the adversarial robustness and the explainability of capsule networks. A theoretical framework with…
Convolutional neural networks are the most widely used deep learning algorithms for traffic signal classification till date but they fail to capture pose, view, orientation of the images because of the intrinsic inability of max pooling layer.This paper proposes a novel method for Traffic sign detection using deep lear…
Capsule networks improve anomaly detection in high-dimensional datasets.
problem Anomaly detection in high-dimensional, class-imbalanced datasets.
method Used a capsule network architecture with autoencoder pre-training and dynamic routing.
result Capsule network outperformed other models in anomaly detection.
Caps2NE learns node embeddings in graphs using capsule layers.
problem Learning low-dimensional node embeddings in graph data.
method Caps2NE uses a two-capsule layer architecture with a routing process to aggregate neighbors' features.
result Caps2NE achieves state-of-the-art performance on node classification tasks.
X-Caps improves medical diagnosis explainability by encoding visual attributes in capsules.
problem Uninterpretable predictions from deep neural networks in healthcare.
method Teaches a novel multi-task capsule network to encode high-level visual attributes and malignancy scores.
result X-Caps outperforms state-of-the-art deep dense 3D CNNs in capturing visually interpretable attributes and malignancy prediction.
Capsule network (CapsNet) was introduced as an enhancement over convolutional neural networks, supplementing the latter's invariance properties with equivariance through pose estimation. CapsNet achieved a very decent performance with a shallow architecture and a significant reduction in parameters count. However, the …
Text classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of texts. In the process of training, word embeddings occupy a large part of parameters. Under the limitation of limited computing resources, it indirectly limits the ability of subsequent network designs. In order to reduce the number of …
Classification of audio samples is an important part of many auditory systems. Deep learning models based on the Convolutional and the Recurrent layers are state-of-the-art in many such tasks. In this paper, we approach audio classification tasks using capsule networks trained by recently proposed dynamic routing-by-ag…
Paper proposes a capsule attention mechanism for EEG-EOG vigilance estimation.
problem Driver vigilance estimation for safer transportation.
method Capsule attention mechanism following LSTM network for multimodal EEG-EOG analysis.
result Capsule attention improves vigilance estimation robustness and accuracy.
MIND models user interests with multiple vectors for better recommendation.
problem Insufficient representation of user interests in deep learning models.
method Multi-Interest Network with Dynamic routing (MIND) using capsule routing and label-aware attention.
result MIND achieves superior performance in recommendation compared to state-of-the-art methods.
A methodology for resilience analysis of Capsule Networks under approximation errors.
problem Resilience of Capsule Networks under approximation errors.
method Modeling and analyzing approximation errors in Capsule Networks' inference.
result Capsule Networks are more resilient to errors during dynamic routing than other stages.
MKCapsnet improves schizophrenia identification using multi-kernels and dropout.
problem Identifying schizophrenia using existing methods requires two steps and large amounts of data.
method Developed a multi-kernel capsule network (MKCapsnet) inspired by brain anatomy.
result Outperformed state-of-the-art methods in schizophrenia identification.
In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have played an important role in the field of deep learning. Variants of CNN's have proven to be very successful in classification tasks across different domains. However, there are two big drawbacks to CNN's: their failure to take into account of important spatial h…
In this paper, we propose Dynamic Self-Attention (DSA), a new self-attention mechanism for sentence embedding. We design DSA by modifying dynamic routing in capsule network (Sabouretal.,2017) for natural language processing. DSA attends to informative words with a dynamic weight vector. We achieve new state-of-the-art …
NASCaps automates CapsNet design for better accuracy and hardware efficiency.
problem Designing Capsule Networks is laborious and inefficient.
method Automated Neural Architecture Search (NAS) with Genetic Algorithm optimization.
result Jointly optimizes network accuracy and hardware efficiency.
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.
Capsule networks improve on traditional neural networks by using vector activations.
problem Comparing capsule networks to traditional neural networks to validate their benefits.
method Deep visualization analysis, feature encoding across vector components, and instantiation parameter encoding.
result Capsule features encode information differently and provide benefits in computer vision applications.
Improved capsule networks with kernel methods for robustness.
problem Adversarial robustness of capsule networks.
method Kernelized capsule networks using Gaussian processes.
result Improved robustness to adversarial perturbations.
Capsule networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, similar to convolutional neural networks.
problem Vulnerability of capsule networks to adversarial attacks.
method Compared capsule networks to convolutional neural networks using various adversarial attacks.
result Capsule networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, similar to convolutional neural networks.
Capsule networks improve temporal data understanding, achieving 96.21% ECG accuracy.
problem Improving temporal data understanding with capsule networks.
method Generated capsules along temporal and channel dimensions, learning contrasting relationships.
result Achieved 96.21% accuracy on ECG signal beat categories, surpassing state-of-the-art.
Stacked Capsule Autoencoders reconstruct objects from images using part relationships.
problem Reconstructing objects from images with robustness to viewpoint changes.
method Two-stage unsupervised capsule autoencoder that predicts part templates and object capsules.
result State-of-the-art results for unsupervised classification on SVHN and MNIST.
Capsule Networks have great potential to tackle problems in structural biology because of their attention to hierarchical relationships. This paper describes the implementation and application of a Capsule Network architecture to the classification of RAS protein family structures on GPU-based computational resources. …
Geometric Capsule Autoencoders group 3D points into parts and objects.
problem Learning object representations from 3D point clouds.
method Geometric capsules with pose and feature components, Multi-View Agreement voting mechanism.
result Learned representations enable object identification and canonical pose recovery.
Capsule models enforce object pose relationships for robustness, explored with probabilistic generative and variational methods.
problem Enforcing object pose relationships for robustness to viewpoint changes.
method Probabilistic generative model with variational bound, exploring capsule assumptions and inference mechanisms.
result Unified objective and test time optimisation demonstrated for capsule models.
Automatic recognition of the historical letters (XI-XVIII centuries) carved on the stoned walls of St.Sophia cathedral in Kyiv (Ukraine) was demonstrated by means of capsule deep learning neural network. It was applied to the image dataset of the carved Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters (CGCL), which was assembled and pr…
Capsule Networks preserve the hierarchical spatial relationships between objects, and thereby bears a potential to surpass the performance of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in performing tasks like image classification. A large body of work has explored adversarial examples for CNNs, but their effecti…
Method screens similar capsule endoscopic images, reducing doctor workload and improving accuracy.
problem Time-consuming and high error rate in manual inspection of large numbers of similar capsule endoscopic images.
method Structural similarity analysis of visually salient areas and hierarchical clustering.
result 76% reduction in similar images, 100% lesion recall, 18-minute average play time.
We present a simple technique that allows capsule models to detect adversarial images. In addition to being trained to classify images, the capsule model is trained to reconstruct the images from the pose parameters and identity of the correct top-level capsule. Adversarial images do not look like a typical member of t…
Capsule Networks have shown encouraging results on \textit{defacto} benchmark computer vision datasets such as MNIST, CIFAR and smallNORB. Although, they are yet to be tested on tasks where (1) the entities detected inherently have more complex internal representations and (2) there are very few instances per class to …
Capsule network improves polyp diagnosis accuracy.
problem Low accuracy of optical biopsy methods for polyps.
method D-Caps architecture with CAP method.
result 43% improvement over previous state-of-the-art.
Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) are the most recent exciting advancement in deep learning field and their applications are quickly spreading in multi-cross-domains including bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social networks, natural language processing and computer vision. In this paper, we expose and tackl…
Capsule Networks improve autonomous navigation in sparse environments.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning for sparse reward environments.
method Caps-EM pairs CapsNets with Advantage Actor Critic, using fewer parameters.
result Caps-EM achieves significant time improvements and fewer parameters compared to competing methods.
We present Generative Adversarial Capsule Network (CapsuleGAN), a framework that uses capsule networks (CapsNets) instead of the standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as discriminators within the generative adversarial network (GAN) setting, while modeling image data. We provide guidelines for designing CapsNet…