Title
Parallel Transport Convolution: Deformable Convolutional Networks on Manifold-Structured Data
Abstract
Convolution has played a prominent role in various applications in science and engineering for many years and has become a key operation in many neural networks. There has been a recent growth of interest in generalizing convolutions on three-dimensional surfaces, often represented as compact manifolds. However, existing approaches cannot preserve all the desirable properties of Euclidean convolutions, namely, compactly supported filters, directionality, and transferability across different manifolds. This paper develops a new generalization of the convolution operation, referred to as parallel transport convolution (PTC), on Riemannian manifolds and their discrete counterparts. PTC is designed based on parallel transportation that can translate information along a manifold and intrinsically preserve directionality. Furthermore, PTC allows for the construction of compactly supported filters and is also robust to manifold deformations. This enables us to perform waveletlike operations and to define convolutional neural networks on curved domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1137/21M1407616
SIAM JOURNAL ON IMAGING SCIENCES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
shape analysis, convolution neural networks, parallel transport, manifold learning
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1936-4954
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan C. Schonsheck110.69
Bin Dong226130.04
Rongjie Lai323919.84