Title
Gradient-Aligned convolution neural network
Abstract
•We propose a general Convolution operation, called GAConv, which can replace conventional operations in CNN to help it achieve rotation invariance.•With GAConv, Gradient-Aligned CNN (GACNN) can achieve rotation invariance without any data augmentation, feature-map augmentation, and filter enrichment.•In GACNN, rotation invariance does not learn from the training set, but bases on the network model. Different from the vanilla CNN, GACNN will output invariant results for all rotated versions of an object, no matter whether the network is trained or not.•We conduct classification experiments on designed dataset and realistic datasets. The results show that with the same computation cost, GACNN achieved better results than conventional CNN and some rotational invariant CNN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108354
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Gradient alignment,Rotation equivariant convolution,Rotation invariant neural network
Journal
122
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0031-3203
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
You Hao121.04
Ping Hu200.34
Shirui Li300.34
Jayaram K. Udupa42481322.29
Yubing Tong59322.73
Hua Li615916.54