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Pre-training a deep neural network on the ImageNet dataset is a common practice for training deep learning models, and generally yields improved performance and faster training times. The technique of pre-training on one task and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Nishai Kooverjee , Steven James , Terence van Zyl

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…

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Animal sounds can be recognised automatically by machine learning, and this has an important role to play in biodiversity monitoring. Yet despite increasingly impressive capabilities, bioacoustic species classifiers still exhibit imbalanced…

We develop techniques for refining representations for fine-grained classification and segmentation tasks in a self-supervised manner. We find that fine-tuning methods based on instance-discriminative contrastive learning are not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Oindrila Saha , Subhransu Maji

Deep learning has shown substantial progress in image analysis. However, the computational demands of large, fully trained models remain a consideration. Transfer learning offers a strategy for adapting pre-trained models to new tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jacinto Colan , Ana Davila , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a standard approach for visual recognition due to their capacity to learn hierarchical representations from raw pixels. In practice, practitioners often choose among (i) training a compact custom CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Annoor Sharara Akhand

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Recognizing fine-grained categories remains a challenging task, due to the subtle distinctions among different subordinate categories, which results in the need of abundant annotated samples. To alleviate the data-hungry problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Junjie Chen , Li Niu , Liu Liu , Liqing Zhang

Deep transfer learning recently has acquired significant research interest. It makes use of pre-trained models that are learned from a source domain, and utilizes these models for the tasks in a target domain. Model-based deep transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianyang Wang , Jun Huan , Michelle Zhu

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

Transfer learning, which allows a source task to affect the inductive bias of the target task, is widely used in computer vision. The typical way of conducting transfer learning with deep neural networks is to fine-tune a model pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yunhui Guo , Honghui Shi , Abhishek Kumar , Kristen Grauman , Tajana Rosing , Rogerio Feris

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

Learning to recognize novel visual categories from a few examples is a challenging task for machines in real-world industrial applications. In contrast, humans have the ability to discriminate even similar objects with little supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Xin Sun , Hongwei Xv , Junyu Dong , Qiong Li , Changrui Chen

Traditional fine-grained image classification typically relies on large-scale training samples with annotated ground-truth. However, some sub-categories have few available samples in real-world applications, and current few-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hegui Zhu , Zhan Gao , Jiayi Wang , Yange Zhou , Chengqing Li

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Transfer learning enables solving a specific task having limited data by using the pre-trained deep networks trained on large-scale datasets. Typically, while transferring the learned knowledge from source task to the target task, the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Sravan Kumar Vinakota , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

FungiCLEF 2024 addresses the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) of fungi species, with a focus on identifying poisonous species. This task is challenging due to the size and class imbalance of the dataset, subtle inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Christopher Chiu , Maximilian Heil , Teresa Kim , Anthony Miyaguchi

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…

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