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Log-Polar Space Convolution Layers
Bing Su · Ji-Rong Wen

Tue Dec 06 05:00 PM -- 07:00 PM (PST) @
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Convolutional neural networks use regular quadrilateral convolution kernels to extract features. Since the number of parameters increases quadratically with the size of the convolution kernel, many popular models use small convolution kernels, resulting in small local receptive fields in lower layers. This paper proposes a novel log-polar space convolution (LPSC) layer, where the convolution kernel is elliptical and adaptively divides its local receptive field into different regions according to the relative directions and logarithmic distances. The local receptive field grows exponentially with the number of distance levels. Therefore, the proposed LPSC not only naturally encodes local spatial structures, but also greatly increases the single-layer receptive field while maintaining the number of parameters. We show that LPSC can be implemented with conventional convolution via log-polar space pooling and can be applied in any network architecture to replace conventional convolutions. Experiments on different tasks and datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed LPSC.

Keywords: Spatial Context · Log-Polar Space · Convolution Kernel · Local Receptive Field

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Bing Su (Renmin University of China)
Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China)

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