Enhancing CNNs robustness to occlusions with bioinspired filters for border completion

Journal: arXiv
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Abstract

We exploit the mathematical modeling of the visual cortex mechanism for border completion to define custom filters for CNNs. We see a consistent improvement in performance, particularly in accuracy, when our modified LeNet 5 is tested with occluded MNIST images.

Authors

  • Catarina P. Coutinho
  • Aneeqa Merhab
  • Janko Petkovic
  • Ferdinando Zanchetta
  • Rita Fioresi