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SplineCNN: Fast Geometric Deep Learning with Continuous B-Spline Kernels

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Fey, Matthias, Lenssen, Jan Eric, Weichert, Frank, Muller, Heinrich·2018·2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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We present Spline-based Convolutional Neural Networks (SplineCNNs), a variant of deep neural networks for irregular structured and geometric input, e.g., graphs or meshes. Our main contribution is a novel convolution operator based on B-splines, that makes the computation time independent from the kernel size due to the local support property of the B-spline basis functions. As a result, we obtain a generalization of the traditional CNN convolution operator by using continuous kernel functions parametrized by a fixed number of trainable weights. In contrast to related approaches that filter in the spectral domain, the proposed method aggregates features purely in the spatial domain. In addition, SplineCNN allows entire end-to-end training of deep architectures, using only the geometric structure as input, instead of handcrafted feature descriptors. For validation, we apply our method on tasks from the fields of image graph classification, shape correspondence and graph node classification, and show that it outperforms or pars state-of-the-art approaches while being significantly faster and having favorable properties like domain-independence. Our source code is available on GitHub1.

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Authors
Fey, M., Lenssen, J. E., Weichert, F., & Muller, H.
Affiliations
TU Dortmund University (DE)
Venue
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-06
Pages
869-877
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2768308213
Cited by
459
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 76 · 2020: 68 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 6
FWCI
20.82
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (projects B2, SFB876)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
Keywords
geometric deep learning, B-splines, continuous kernels, convolutional neural networks, graph classification, mesh processing, shape correspondence, node classification, end-to-end learning

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