On Preserving Geometrical Invariance for Superpixel Image Classification using Graph Transformer

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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification exploit a dense grid of pixels containing redundant information. Consequently, for a larger image dataset, CNNs and ViTs face deployability challenges due to high computational complexity. Representing images as graphs of superpixels offers an efficient alternative that preserves key information while eliminating pixel-level redundancy. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been utilized on such graphs to perform image classification. However, GNNs are known to struggle with capturing long-range dependencies which is important in the domain of image classification. Furthermore, a majority of these superpixel-based image classification approaches do not explicitly preserve translation/rotation invariance. Nevertheless, preserving translation/rotation invariance is important for robust image classification. Thus, this paper proposes SuperGT, a Graph Transformer-based framework for image classification, which captures the long range dependencies, along with a pre-processing scheme that preserves translation/rotation invariance. We evaluate SuperGT on CIFAR-10 dataset and observe that it performs significantly better than many baselines. Furthermore, we note that the overall performance of SuperGT is comparable to the previous state-of-the-art model, namely, ShapeGNN, without relying on coordinates of the boundary points of each superpixel required by ShapeGNN.

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