Brain-inspired dual-pathway neural network architecture and its generalization analysis

In this study, we explored the neural mechanism of global topological perception in the human visual system. We showed strong evidence that the retinotectal pathway in the archicortex of the human brain is responsible for global topological perception, and for modulating the local feature processing in the classical ventral visual pathway. Inspired by this recent cognitive discovery,we developed a novel CogNet architecture to emulate the global-local dichotomy of human visual cognitive mechanisms. The thorough experimental results indicate that the proposed CogNet not only significantly improves image classification accuracies but also effectively addresses the texture bias problem observed in baseline CNN models. We have also conducted mathematical analysis for the generalization gap for general neural networks. Our theoretical derivations suggest that the Hurst parameter, a measure of the curvature of the loss landscape, can closely bind the generalization gap. A larger Hurst parameter corresponds to a better generalization ability. We found that our proposed CogNet achieves a lower test error and attains a larger Hurst parameter,strengthening its superiority over the baseline CNN models further.

Research on clothing patterns generation based on multi-scales self-attention improved generative adversarial network

Purpose-Clothing patterns play a dominant role in costume design and have become an important link in the perception of costume art.Conventional clothing patterns design relies on experienced designers.Although the quality of clothing patterns is very high on conventional design,the input time and output amount ratio is relative low for conventional design.In order to break through the bottleneck of conventional clothing patterns design,this paper proposes a novel way based on generative adversarial network(GAN)model for automatic clothing patterns generation,which not only reduces the dependence of experienced designer,but also improve the input-output ratio.Design/methodology/approach-In view of the fact that clothing patterns have high requirements for global artistic perception and local texture details,this paper improves the conventional GAN model from two aspects:a multi-scales discriminators strategy is introduced to deal with the local texture details;and the selfattention mechanism is introduced to improve the global artistic perception.Therefore,the improved GAN called multi-scales self-attention improved generative adversarial network(MS-SA-GAN)model,which is used for high resolution clothing patterns generation.Findings-To verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed MS-SA-GAN model,a crawler is designed to acquire standard clothing patterns dataset from Baidu pictures,and a comparative experiment is conducted on our designed clothing patterns dataset.In experiments,we have adjusted different parameters of the proposed MS-SA-GAN model,and compared the global artistic perception and local texture details of the generated clothing patterns.Originality/value-Experimental results have shown that the clothing patterns generated by the proposed MS-SA-GANmodel are superior to the conventional algorithms in some local texture detail indexes.In addition,a group of clothing design professionals is invited to evaluate the global artistic perception through a valencearousal scale.The scale results have shown that the proposed MS-SA-GAN model achieves a better global art perception.