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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

Visual classification can be divided into coarse-grained and fine-grained classification. Coarse-grained classification represents categories with a large degree of dissimilarity, such as the classification of cats and dogs, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Po-Yung Chou , Cheng-Hung Lin , Wen-Chung Kao

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

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

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 categories are more difficulty distinguished than generic categories due to the similarity of inter-class and the diversity of intra-class. Therefore, the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is considered as one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Guo Lihua , Guo Chenggan

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

Multi-view subspace clustering (MSC) is a popular unsupervised method by integrating heterogeneous information to reveal the intrinsic clustering structure hidden across views. Usually, MSC methods use graphs (or affinity matrices) fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yidi Wang , Xiaobing Pei , Haoxi Zhan

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to distinguish the sub-classes of the same category and its essential solution is to mine the subtle and discriminative regions. Convolution neural networks (CNNs), which employ the cross…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Siqing Zhang , Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Few-shot fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to leverage limited data to enable models to discriminate subtly distinct categories. Recent works mostly finetuned the pre-trained visual language models to achieve performance gain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hongyu Guo , Xiangzhao Hao , Jiarui Guo , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

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 image search is still a challenging problem due to the difficulty in capturing subtle differences regardless of pose variations of objects from fine-grained categories. In practice, a dynamic inventory with new fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Kevin Lin , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

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

This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Subhransu Maji , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala , Matthew Blaschko , Andrea Vedaldi

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

The task of fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) deals with classification problems that display a small inter-class variance such as distinguishing between different bird species or car models. State-of-the-art approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

Fine-grained visual categorization is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, which is a highly challenging task due to the quite subtle and local visual distinctions among similar subcategories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

Fine-grained classification models are designed to focus on the relevant details necessary to distinguish highly similar classes, particularly when intra-class variance is high and inter-class variance is low. Most existing models rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Nicola Landro