Scale Learning in Scale-Equivariant Convolutional networks

In real-life scenarios, there are many variations in sizes of objects of the same category and the objects are not always placed at a fixed distance from the camera. This results in objects taking up an arbitrary size of pixels in the image. Vanilla CNNs are by design only translation equivariant and thus have to learn separate filters for...

Frequency learning for structured CNN filters with Gaussian fractional derivatives

A structured CNN filter basis allows incorporating priors about natural image statistics and thus require less training examples to learn, saving valuable annotation time. Here, we build on the Gaussian derivative CNN filter basis that learn both the orientation and scale of the filters. However, this Gaussian filter basis definition depends on...