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Whether what you see in Figure 1 is a "flamingo" or a "bird", is the question we ask in this paper. While fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) strives to arrive at the former, for the majority of us non-experts just "bird" would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dongliang Chang , Kaiyue Pang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Yi-Zhe Song , Jun Guo

Fine-grained classification involves distinguishing between similar sub-categories based on subtle differences in highly localized regions; therefore, accurate localization of discriminative regions remains a major challenge. We describe a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Yaming Wang , Jonghyun Choi , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Transferring the knowledge learned from large scale datasets (e.g., ImageNet) via fine-tuning offers an effective solution for domain-specific fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) tasks (e.g., recognizing bird species or car make and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Cui , Yang Song , Chen Sun , Andrew Howard , Serge Belongie

Recognizing objects from subcategories with very subtle differences remains a challenging task due to the large intra-class and small inter-class variation. Recent work tackles this problem in a weakly-supervised manner: object parts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Wei Luo , Xitong Yang , Xianjie Mo , Yuheng Lu , Larry S. Davis , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) involves classifying closely related sub-classes. This task is difficult due to the subtle differences between classes and the high intra-class variance. Moreover, FGVC datasets are typically small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Eyal Michaeli , Ohad Fried

Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) aims at distinguishing highly similar sub-categories within fine-grained objects, such as different soybean cultivars. Compared to traditional fine-grained visual categorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yu Liu , Yaqi Cai , Qi Jia , Binglin Qiu , Weimin Wang , Nan Pu

Deep Neural Network has shown great strides in the coarse-grained image classification task. It was in part due to its strong ability to extract discriminative feature representations from the images. However, the marginal visual difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Prateek Shroff , Tianlong Chen , Yunchao Wei , Zhangyang Wang

Training a fine-grained image recognition model with limited data presents a significant challenge, as the subtle differences between categories may not be easily discernible amidst distracting noise patterns. One commonly employed strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Avraham Chapman , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) is a challenging topic in computer vision. It is a problem characterized by large intra-class differences and subtle inter-class differences. In this paper, we tackle this problem in a weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ashiq Imran , Vassilis Athitsos

Extracting discriminative features plays a crucial role in the fine-grained visual classification task. Most of the existing methods focus on developing attention or augmentation mechanisms to achieve this goal. However, addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Fine-grained visual recognition aims to capture discriminative characteristics amongst visually similar categories. The state-of-the-art research work has significantly improved the fine-grained recognition performance by deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yan Bai , Feng Gao , Yihang Lou , Shiqi Wang , Tiejun Huang , Ling-Yu Duan

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

Fine-Grained Domain Generalization (FGDG) presents greater challenges than conventional domain generalization due to the subtle inter-class differences and relatively pronounced intra-class variations inherent in fine-grained recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zhen Wang , Jiaojiao Zhao , Qilong Wang , Yongfeng Dong , Wenlong Yu

Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) has achieved significant progress recently. However, the number of fine-grained species could be huge and dynamically increasing in real scenarios, making it difficult to recognize unseen objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Hantao Yao , Shiliang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Jintao Li , Qi Tian

We propose a novel approach to enhance the discriminability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The key idea is to build a tree structure that could progressively learn fine-grained features to distinguish a subset of classes, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Zhenhua Wang , Xingxing Wang , Gang Wang

Pose variation and subtle differences in appearance are key challenges to fine-grained classification. While deep networks have markedly improved general recognition, many approaches to fine-grained recognition rely on anchoring networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Ning Zhang , Evan Shelhamer , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

Over the past few years, a significant progress has been made in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based image recognition. This is mainly due to the strong ability of such networks in mining discriminative object pose and parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

Small inter-class and large intra-class variations are the main challenges in fine-grained visual classification. Objects from different classes share visually similar structures and objects in the same class can have different poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Michael Gormish , Massoud Pedram

Humans are capable of learning a new fine-grained concept with very little supervision, \emph{e.g.}, few exemplary images for a species of bird, yet our best deep learning systems need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Jianxin Wu

Most of the existing semantic segmentation approaches with image-level class labels as supervision, highly rely on the initial class activation map (CAM) generated from the standard classification network. In this paper, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jinlong Li , Zequn Jie , Xu Wang , Yu Zhou , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma