Variational Capsules for Image Analysis and Synthesis

Understand

A capsule is a group of neurons whose activity vector models different properties of the same entity.

• This paper extends the capsule to a generative version, named variational capsules (VCs).
• Each VC produces a latent variable for a specific entity, making it possible to integrate image analysis and image synthesis into a unified framework.
• Variational capsules model an image as a composition of entities in a probabilistic model.