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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

Visual Place recognition is commonly addressed as an image retrieval problem. However, retrieval methods are impractical to scale to large datasets, densely sampled from city-wide maps, since their dimension impact negatively on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gabriele Trivigno , Gabriele Berton , Juan Aragon , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

Fine-grained visual recognition is to classify objects with visually similar appearances into subcategories, which has made great progress with the development of deep CNNs. However, handling subtle differences between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Xiaowu Chen , Yonghong Tian

The aim of fine-grained recognition is to identify sub-ordinate categories in images like different species of birds. Existing works have confirmed that, in order to capture the subtle differences across the categories, automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhiqiang Shen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dequan Wang , Xiangyang Xue

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) requires distinguishing between visually similar categories through subtle, localized features - a task that remains challenging due to high intra-class variability and limited inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Johann Schmidt , Sebastian Stober , Joachim Denzler , Paul Bodesheim

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

Fine-grained categorisation has been a challenging problem due to small inter-class variation, large intra-class variation and low number of training images. We propose a learning system which first clusters visually similar classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Zongyuan Ge , Christopher Mccool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Fine-grained 3D shape classification is important for shape understanding and analysis, which poses a challenging research problem. However, the studies on the fine-grained 3D shape classification have rarely been explored, due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Amodal object segmentation is a challenging task that involves segmenting both visible and occluded parts of an object. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation (C2F-Seg), that addresses this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Jianxiong Gao , Xuelin Qian , Yikai Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Yanwei Fu

To parse images into fine-grained semantic parts, the complex fine-grained elements will put it in trouble when using off-the-shelf semantic segmentation networks. In this paper, for image parsing task, we propose to parse images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiagao Hu , Zhengxing Sun , Yunhan Sun , Jinlong Shi

Learning subtle yet discriminative features (e.g., beak and eyes for a bird) plays a significant role in fine-grained image recognition. Existing attention-based approaches localize and amplify significant parts to learn fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Heliang Zheng , Jianlong Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo

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

Weakly supervised learning with only coarse labels can obtain visual explanations of deep neural network such as attention maps by back-propagating gradients. These attention maps are then available as priors for tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kunpeng Li , Ziyan Wu , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Jan Ernst , Yun Fu

Fine-grained classification is a challenging problem, due to subtle differences among highly-confused categories. Most approaches address this difficulty by learning discriminative representation of individual input image. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Peiqin Zhuang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao

The Coarse-to-Fine Few-Shot (C2FS) task is designed to train models using only coarse labels, then leverages a limited number of subclass samples to achieve fine-grained recognition capabilities. This task presents two main challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xin-yang Zhao , Jian Jin , Yang-yang Li , Yazhou Yao

Human gaze is essential for various appealing applications. Aiming at more accurate gaze estimation, a series of recent works propose to utilize face and eye images simultaneously. Nevertheless, face and eye images only serve as independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yihua Cheng , Shiyao Huang , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Feng Lu

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou

The demand for accurate food quantification has increased in the recent years, driven by the needs of applications in dietary monitoring. At the same time, computer vision approaches have exhibited great potential in automating tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Valasia Vlachopoulou , Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

In this paper, we introduce Coarse-Fine Networks, a two-stream architecture which benefits from different abstractions of temporal resolution to learn better video representations for long-term motion. Traditional Video models process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo