Frequency Disentangled Residual Network

TL;DR

The paper introduces FDResNet, a novel residual network that separately processes high and low frequency information to improve generalization and reduce overfitting in image classification tasks.

Contribution

FDResNet uniquely disentangles frequency components within residual blocks, enhancing generalization and computational efficiency over traditional ResNets.

Findings

Outperforms standard ResNets on CIFAR10/100, Caltech, TinyImageNet

Improves image retrieval performance

Frequency disentangling enhances model interpretability

Abstract

Residual networks (ResNets) have been utilized for various computer vision and image processing applications. The residual connection improves the training of the network with better gradient flow. A residual block consists of few convolutional layers having trainable parameters, which leads to overfitting. Moreover, the present residual networks are not able to utilize the high and low frequency information suitably, which also challenges the generalization capability of the network. In this paper, a frequency disentangled residual network (FDResNet) is proposed to tackle these issues. Specifically, FDResNet includes separate connections in the residual block for low and high frequency components, respectively. Basically, the proposed model disentangles the low and high frequency components to increase the generalization ability. Moreover, the computation of low and high frequency components using fixed filters further avoids the overfitting. The proposed model is tested on benchmark CIFAR10/100, Caltech and TinyImageNet datasets for image classification. The performance of the proposed model is also tested in image retrieval framework. It is noticed that the proposed model outperforms its counterpart residual model. The effect of kernel size and standard deviation is also evaluated. The impact of the frequency disentangling is also analyzed using saliency map.