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Successful fine-grained image classification methods learn subtle details between visually similar (sub-)classes, but the problem becomes significantly more challenging if the details are missing due to low resolution. Encouraged by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Dingding Cai , Ke Chen , Yanlin Qian , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to automatically recognise objects from subordinate categories. One of its main difficulties is capturing the most discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Dmitry Demidov , Muhammad Hamza Sharif , Aliakbar Abdurahimov , Hisham Cholakkal , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

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

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 visual categorization (FGVC) is a challenging but significant task in computer vision, which aims to recognize different sub-categories of birds, cars, airplanes, etc. Among them, recognizing models of different cars has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yutao Hu , Sen Li , Jincheng Yan , Wenqi Shao , Xiaoyan Luo

Computer vision based fine-grained recognition has received great attention in recent years. Existing works focus on discriminative part localization and feature learning. In this paper, to improve the performance of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

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

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) aims at recognizing objects from similar subordinate categories, which is challenging and practical for human's accurate automatic recognition needs. Most FGVC approaches focus on the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Hongbo Sun , Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) is one of the most authoritative academic competitions in the field of Computer Vision (CV) in recent years. But applying ILSVRC's annual champion directly to fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Fan Zhang , Meng Li , Guisheng Zhai , Yizhao Liu

Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task that recognizes the sub-classes belonging to the same meta-class. Large inter-class similarity and intra-class variance is the main challenge of this task. Most exiting methods try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Dongliang Chang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Ruoyi Du , Kongming Liang

Fine-grained classification of microscopic image data with limited samples is an open problem in computer vision and biomedical imaging. Deep learning based vision systems mostly deal with high number of low-resolution images, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Mengran Fan , Tapabrata Chakrabort , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu , Jens Rittscher

Fine-grained categorization can benefit from part-based features which reveal subtle visual differences between object categories. Handcrafted features have been widely used for part detection and classification. Although a recent trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Ting Sun , Lin Sun , Dit-Yan Yeung

Text contained in an image carries high-level semantics that can be exploited to achieve richer image understanding. In particular, the mere presence of text provides strong guiding content that should be employed to tackle a diversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Andres Mafla , Sounak Dey , Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

A well-designed fine-grained categorization system usually has three contradictory requirements: accuracy (the ability to identify objects among subordinate categories); interpretability (the ability to provide human-understandable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Shaoli Huang , Dacheng Tao

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

Identifying subordinate-level categories from images is a longstanding task in computer vision and is referred to as fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR). It has tremendous significance in real-world applications since an average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Wenjing Li , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Novel category discovery aims at adapting models trained on known categories to novel categories. Previous works only focus on the scenario where known and novel categories are of the same granularity. In this paper, we investigate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Ping Chen , Siliang Tang , Qinghua Zheng , QianYing Wang

For the task of image classification, researchers work arduously to develop the next state-of-the-art (SOTA) model, each bench-marking their own performance against that of their predecessors and of their peers. Unfortunately, the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Matthew Gwilliam , Adam Teuscher , Connor Anderson , Ryan Farrell

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