arXiv Computer Vision

Layerwise Tunable Lifting Scheme for the Convolutional Neural Network

The paper presents a family of tunable lifting schemes for biorthogonal wavelet filter banks, introducing three strategies: low‑pass tuning, high‑pass tuning, and a sequential scheme that jointly adapts both branches. These designs use a lattice‑based lifting structure to ensure invertibility and stability for any parameter values. The authors integrated the schemes into a ResNet‑18 backbone and evaluated them on image classification (DTD) and anomaly detection (MVTec‑AD and KRC102S), reporting consistent performance improvements across all tasks.

arXiv Computation and Language
5d ago

WaveScat: Wavelet Scattering Front-Ends with Self-Supervised Features for Speech Deepfake Detection

WaveScat introduces a new family of feature extractors for speech deepfake detection that merges wavelet scattering transform (WST) with self‑supervised learning. By cascading wavelet convolutions with modulus nonlinearities, WaveScat produces deformation‑stable, multi‑scale features that capture both low‑level spectral details and higher‑level information. Experiments on Deepfake‑Eval‑2024 and cross‑dataset tests (SpoofCeleb, In‑the‑Wild, ASVspoof 5) demonstrate that WaveScat significantly outperforms existing front‑ends, with a small averaging scale and high‑frequency directional resolution proving crucial for detecting subtle artifacts.

By Xi Xuan, Davide Carbone, Wenxin Zhang, Tomi H. Kinnunen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

GradAttn: Replacing Fixed Residual Connections with Task-Modulated Attention Pathways

GradAttn replaces fixed residual connections in deep ConvNets with attention‑controlled gradient pathways, allowing the network to dynamically weight shallow texture features and deep semantic representations. The method extracts multi‑scale CNN features at different depths and regulates them through self‑attention, leading to improved performance over ResNet‑18 on five of eight evaluated datasets, including a +11.07% accuracy gain on FashionMNIST. Analysis of gradient flow shows that controlled instabilities introduced by attention can coincide with better generalization, while positional encoding proves to be dataset‑dependent.

By Soudeep Ghoshal, Himanshu Buckchash
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12

Domain-Aware Lightweight Spectral-Grouped Convolutions for Hyperspectral Fish Freshness Classification

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) offers nondestructive assessment of fish freshness by detecting biochemical alterations across spectral bands. However, conventional deep learning approaches do not fully address the particular characteristics of HSI data, such as spectral dominance over spatial textures, ordinal label structure, and a small number of training samples.