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Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

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Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and ALIGN, are generally trained on datasets consisting of image-caption pairs obtained from the web. However, real-world multimodal datasets, such as healthcare data, are significantly more…

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Computer vision based fine-grained recognition has received great attention in recent years. Existing works focus on discriminative part localization and feature learning. In this paper, to improve the performance of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

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Computer vision (CV) is the process of using machines to understand and analyze imagery, which is an integral branch of artificial intelligence. Among various research areas of CV, fine-grained image analysis (FGIA) is a longstanding and…

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High-quality annotation of fine-grained visual categories demands great expert knowledge, which is taxing and time consuming. Alternatively, learning fine-grained visual representation from enormous unlabeled images (e.g., species, brands)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qi Bi , Wei Ji , Jingjun Yi , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, a model is trained with a limited number of labeled images along with a large corpus of unlabeled images to reduce the high annotation effort. While previous methods are able to learn good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Lukas Hoyer , David Joseph Tan , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Fine-grained image classification, the task of distinguishing between visually similar subcategories within a broader category (e.g., bird species, car models, flower types), is a challenging computer vision problem. Traditional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dmitry Demidov , Zaigham Zaheer , Omkar Thawakar , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent advances in instruction-tuned Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have imbued the models with the ability to generate high-level, image-grounded explanations with ease. While such capability is largely attributed to the rich world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jeonghwan Kim , Heng Ji

To classify images based on their content is one of the most studied topics in the field of computer vision. Nowadays, this problem can be addressed using modern techniques such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), but over the years…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Òscar Lorente , Ian Riera , Aditya Rana

Fine-grained visual classification aims to recognize images belonging to multiple sub-categories within a same category. It is a challenging task due to the inherently subtle variations among highly-confused categories. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tian Zhang , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

We aim to provide a computationally cheap yet effective approach for fine-grained image classification (FGIC) in this letter. Unlike previous methods that rely on complex part localization modules, our approach learns fine-grained features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Luo , Hengmin Zhang , Jun Li , Xiu-Shen Wei

In the context of fine-grained visual categorization, the ability to interpret models as human-understandable visual manuals is sometimes as important as achieving high classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Part-Stacked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Shaoli Huang , Zhe Xu , Dacheng Tao , Ya Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Fine-grained visual classification aims to recognize objects belonging to many subordinate categories of a supercategory, where appearance alone often fails to distinguish highly similar classes. We propose a unified framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sumit Mamtani , Yash Thesia

Modern image classification is based upon directly predicting classes via large discriminative networks, which do not directly contain information about the intuitive visual features that may constitute a classification decision. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhili Feng , Anna Bair , J. Zico Kolter

Given a training dataset composed of images and corresponding category labels, deep convolutional neural networks show a strong ability in mining discriminative parts for image classification. However, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Weifeng Ge , Xiangru Lin , Yizhou Yu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

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