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▶︎ CANCELED: EE Systems Seminar

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Moore B280
** CANCELED** From Feedforward-Designed Convolutional Neural Networks (FF-CNNs) to Successive Subspace Learning (SSL)
C.-C. Jay Kuo, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Media Communications Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California,

ABSTRACT Given a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, its network parameters are typically determined by backpropagation (BP). The underlying mechanism remains to be a black-box after a large amount of theoretical investigation. In this talk, I will first present a new interpretable feedforward (FF) design with the LeNet-5 as an example. The FF-designed CNN is a data-centric approach that derives network parameters based on training data statistics layer by layer in a one-pass feedforward manner. To determine parameters of the convolutional layers, we develop a new signal transform, called the Saab (Subspace approximation with adjusted bias) transform. The bias in filter weights is chosen to annihilate nonlinearity of the activation function. To determine parameters of the fully-connected (FC) layers, we adopt a label-guided linear least squared regression (LSR) method. To generalize the FF-CNN design idea furthermore, we present the notion of "successive subspace learning (SSL)" and present a couple of concrete methods for image and point cloud classification. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the competitive performance of the SSL-based systems. Similarities and differences between SSL and deep learning (DL) are compared.

BIO Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He is now with the University of Southern California (USC) as Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests are in the areas of visual computing and communication. He is a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE and SPIE. Dr. Kuo received the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society John Choma Education Award, the 2016 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman Award, the 2017 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award, and the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.

For more information, please contact Liliana Chavarria by phone at 626-395-4715 or by email at [email protected].