Title
Shepard Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract
Deep learning has recently been introduced to the field of low-level computer vision and image processing. Promising results have been obtained in a number of tasks including super-resolution, inpainting, deconvolution, filtering, etc. However, previously adopted neural network approaches such as convolutional neural networks and sparse auto-encoders are inherently with translation invariant operators. We found this property prevents the deep learning approaches from outperforming the state-of-the-art if the task itself requires translation variant interpolation (TVI). In this paper, we draw on Shepard interpolation and design Shepard Convolutional Neural Networks (ShCNN) which efficiently realizes end-to-end trainable TVI operators in the network. We show that by adding only a few feature maps in the new Shepard layers, the network is able to achieve stronger results than a much deeper architecture. Superior performance on both image in-painting and super-resolution is obtained where our system outperforms previous ones while keeping the running time competitive.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Interpolation,Filter (signal processing),Deconvolution,Inpainting,Operator (computer programming),Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Artificial neural network,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
28
1049-5258
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.82
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jimmy S. J. Ren132423.85
Li Xu2171354.04
Qiong Yan363022.47
Wenxiu Sun416020.79