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Different from the general visual classification, some classification tasks are more challenging as they need the professional categories of the images. In the paper, we call them expert-level classification. Previous fine-grained vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Junde Wu , Huihui Fang , Yehui Yang , Yu Zhang , Haoyi Xiong , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu

Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Deep neural networks have demonstrated advanced abilities on various visual classification tasks, which heavily rely on the large-scale training samples with annotated ground-truth. However, it is unrealistic always to require such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Huaxi Huang , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Jingsong Xu , Qiang Wu

The field of deep learning is evolving in different directions, with still the need for more efficient training strategies. In this work, we present a novel and robust training scheme that integrates visual explanation techniques in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 David Morales , Estefania Talavera , Beatriz Remeseiro

Locating discriminative parts plays a key role in fine-grained visual classification due to the high similarities between different objects. Recent works based on convolutional neural networks utilize the feature maps taken from the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jianwei Song , Ruoyu Yang

Robots operating in human-centered environments, such as retail stores, restaurants, and households, are often required to distinguish between similar objects in different contexts with a high degree of accuracy. However, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Songsong Xiong , Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Fine-grained image classification (FGIC) is a challenging task in computer vision for due to small visual differences among inter-subcategories, but, large intra-class variations. Deep learning methods have achieved remarkable success in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Asish Bera , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) aims to categorize closely related subclasses, a task complicated by minimal inter-class differences and significant intra-class variance. Existing methods often rely on additional annotations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengxiang Gao , Yihao Liang , Yanzhi Song , Zhouwang Yang

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is becoming an important research field, due to its wide applications and the rapid development of computer vision technologies. The current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in the FGVC usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuai Xu , Dongliang Chang , Jiyang Xie , Zhanyu Ma

A major challenge in Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) is distinguishing various categories with high inter-class similarity by learning the feature that differentiate the details. Conventional cross entropy trained Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Runkai Zheng , Zhijia Yu , Yinqi Zhang , Chris Ding , Hei Victor Cheng , Li Liu

Fine-grained classification is a relatively new field that has concentrated on using information from a single image, while ignoring the enormous potential of using video data to improve classification. In this work we present the novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-17 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid , Peter Corke

Compared to earlier multistage frameworks using CNN features, recent end-to-end deep approaches for fine-grained recognition essentially enhance the mid-level learning capability of CNNs. Previous approaches achieve this by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yaming Wang , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is a challenging task due to similar visual appearances between various species. Previous studies always implicitly assume that the training and test data have the same underlying distributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuo Ye , Shujian Yu , Wenjin Hou , Yu Wang , Xinge You

Fine-grained recognition is challenging due to its subtle local inter-class differences versus large intra-class variations such as poses. A key to address this problem is to localize discriminative parts to extract pose-invariant features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Xiao Liu , Tian Xia , Jiang Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zhou , Yuanqing Lin

We propose an architecture for fine-grained visual categorization that approaches expert human performance in the classification of bird species. Our architecture first computes an estimate of the object's pose; this is used to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Steve Branson , Grant Van Horn , Serge Belongie , Pietro Perona

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) tasks, such as insect and bird identification, demand sensitivity to subtle visual cues while remaining robust to spatial transformations. A key challenge is handling geometric biases and noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Johann Schmidt , Sebastian Stober

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) is known as a challenging task due to subtle differences among subordinate categories. Many current FGVC approaches focus on identifying and locating discriminative regions by using the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Hui Wang , Yueyang li , Haichi Luo

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC), which aims at classifying objects with small inter-class variances, has been significantly advanced in recent years. However, ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (ultra-FGVC), which targets at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yajie Sun , Miaohua Zhang , Xiaohan Yu , Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao

Fine-grained classification often requires recognizing specific object parts, such as beak shape and wing patterns for birds. Encouraging a fine-grained classification model to first detect such parts and then using them to infer the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Robert van der Klis , Stephan Alaniz , Massimiliano Mancini , Cassio F. Dantas , Dino Ienco , Zeynep Akata , Diego Marcos

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate impressive abilities on numerous image understanding and reasoning tasks. The task of fine-grained object classification (e.g., distinction between \textit{animal species}), however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš