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Motivated by the desire to exploit patterns shared across classes, we present a simple yet effective class-specific memory module for fine-grained feature learning. The memory module stores the prototypical feature representation for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Weijian Deng , Joshua Marsh , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Clearly explaining a rationale for a classification decision to an end-user can be as important as the decision itself. Existing approaches for deep visual recognition are generally opaque and do not output any justification text;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Zeynep Akata , Marcus Rohrbach , Jeff Donahue , Bernt Schiele , Trevor Darrell

The term fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) refers to classification tasks where the classes are very similar and the classification model needs to be able to find subtle differences to make the correct prediction. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

In the transfer learning paradigm models learn useful representations (or features) during a data-rich pretraining stage, and then use the pretrained representation to improve model performance on data-scarce downstream tasks. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Yufan Li , Subhabrata Sen , Ben Adlam

Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jason Kahei Tam , Murilo Gustineli , Anthony Miyaguchi

Bird strikes pose a significant threat to aviation safety, often resulting in loss of life, severe aircraft damage, and substantial financial costs. Existing bird strike prevention strategies primarily rely on avian radar systems that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Elaheh Sabziyan Varnousfaderani , Syed A. M. Shihab , Jonathan King

Prototypical networks have been shown to perform well at few-shot learning tasks in computer vision. Yet these networks struggle when classes are very similar to each other (fine-grain classification) and currently have no way of taking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bijan Haney , Alexander Lavin

Fine-grained classification of microscopic image data with limited samples is an open problem in computer vision and biomedical imaging. Deep learning based vision systems mostly deal with high number of low-resolution images, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Mengran Fan , Tapabrata Chakrabort , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu , Jens Rittscher

Fine-grained classification involves distinguishing between similar sub-categories based on subtle differences in highly localized regions; therefore, accurate localization of discriminative regions remains a major challenge. We describe a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Yaming Wang , Jonghyun Choi , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

The field of image classification has shown an outstanding success thanks to the development of deep learning techniques. Despite the great performance obtained, most of the work has focused on natural images ignoring other domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Manuel Lagunas , Elena Garces

The emerging task of fine-grained image classification in low-data regimes assumes the presence of low inter-class variance and large intra-class variation along with a highly limited amount of training samples per class. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Dmitry Demidov , Abduragim Shtanchaev , Mihail Mihaylov , Mohammad Almansoori

This paper tackles the problem of learning a finer representation than the one provided by training labels. This enables fine-grained category retrieval of images in a collection annotated with coarse labels only. Our network is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hugo Touvron , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Matthieu Cord , Hervé Jégou

Key for solving fine-grained image categorization is finding discriminate and local regions that correspond to subtle visual traits. Great strides have been made, with complex networks designed specifically to learn part-level discriminate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Dongliang Chang , Yifeng Ding , Jiyang Xie , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Xiaoxu Li , Zhanyu Ma , Ming Wu , Jun Guo , Yi-Zhe Song

Although CNNs have gained the ability to transfer learned knowledge from source task to target task by virtue of large annotated datasets but consume huge processing time to fine-tune without GPU. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tasfia Shermin , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu , Shyh Wei Teng

This study proposes a method based on fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) to identify migratory birds from their songs, with the objective of recognizing which birds pass through certain areas and at what time. To determine the best…

Deep learning models have significantly advanced acoustic bird monitoring by being able to recognize numerous bird species based on their vocalizations. However, traditional deep learning models are black boxes that provide no insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 René Heinrich , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

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

Neural network-based clustering has recently gained popularity, and in particular a constrained clustering formulation has been proposed to perform transfer learning and image category discovery using deep learning. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

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