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Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is challenging but more critical than traditional classification tasks. It requires distinguishing different subcategories with the inherently subtle intra-class object variations. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhenhuan Huang , Xiaoyue Duan , Bo Zhao , Jinhu Lü , Baochang Zhang

Deep neural networks are typically trained in a single shot for a specific task and data distribution, but in real world settings both the task and the domain of application can change. The problem becomes even more challenging in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Donald Shenaj , Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to distinguish the sub-classes of the same category and its essential solution is to mine the subtle and discriminative regions. Convolution neural networks (CNNs), which employ the cross…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Siqing Zhang , Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Visual attention is a mechanism closely intertwined with vision and memory. Top-down information influences visual processing through attention. We designed a neural network model inspired by aspects of human visual attention. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruoyang Hu , Robert A. Jacobs

Attention plays a critical role in human visual experience. Furthermore, it has recently been demonstrated that attention can also play an important role in the context of applying artificial neural networks to a variety of tasks from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

Convolutional neural networks require numerous data for training. Considering the difficulties in data collection and labeling in some specific tasks, existing approaches generally use models pre-trained on a large source domain (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Zhichen Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Yuning Jiang , Li Xu , Lei Li , Wei-Ying Ma

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

Fine-grained image recognition classifies subcategories such as bird species or car models. While state-of-the-art (SOTA) models are accurate, they are often too resource-intensive for deployment on constrained devices. Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Oswin Gosal , Edwin Arkel Rios , Augusto Christian Surya , Fernando Mikael , Bo-Cheng Lai , Min-Chun Hu

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Recent advances in deep learning greatly boost the performance of object detection. State-of-the-art methods such as Faster-RCNN, FPN and R-FCN have achieved high accuracy in challenging benchmark datasets. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hao Yang , Hao Wu , Hao Chen

This paper proposes to go beyond the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) by incorporating the information from object detection, focusing on dealing with fine-grained image classification. Unfortunately, CNN suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang , Guobin Chen , Yuanqing Lin

Recently, deep learning-based models have exhibited remarkable performance for image manipulation detection. However, most of them suffer from poor universality of handcrafted or predetermined features. Meanwhile, they only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Yang , Huizhou Li , Fangting Lin , Bin Jiang , Hao Zhao

Gradient-based attention modeling has been used widely as a way to visualize and understand convolutional neural networks. However, exploiting these visual explanations during the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Runze Li , Tomaso Fontanini , Luca Donati , Andrea Prati , Bir Bhanu

When faced with learning challenging new tasks, humans often follow sequences of steps that allow them to incrementally build up the necessary skills for performing these new tasks. However, in machine learning, models are most often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Otilia Stretcu , Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Tom M. Mitchell , Barnabás Póczos

Fine-grained entity type classification (FETC) is the task of classifying an entity mention to a broad set of types. Distant supervision paradigm is extensively used to generate training data for this task. However, generated training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Abhishek , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar

We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system for fine-grained image classification, called a mixture of DCNNs (MixDCNN). The fine-grained image classification problem is characterised by large intra-class variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 ZongYuan Ge , Alex Bewley , Christopher McCool , Ben Upcroft , Peter Corke , Conrad Sanderson

In classification problems, models must predict a class label based on the input data features. However, class labels are organized hierarchically in many datasets. While a classification task is often defined at a specific level of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Davide Pirovano , Federico Milanesio , Michele Caselle , Piero Fariselli , Matteo Osella

Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Scott Reed , Yutian Chen , Thomas Paine , Aäron van den Oord , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo Rezende , Oriol Vinyals , Nando de Freitas

While deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision and many other fields, currently it does not work very well on patient genomic data with the "big p, small N" problem (i.e., a relatively small number of samples with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Tianle Ma , Aidong Zhang