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Fine-grained image classification, which aims to distinguish images with subtle distinctions, is a challenging task due to two main issues: lack of sufficient training data for every class and difficulty in learning discriminative features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Liwei Wang , Tao Xiang , Xinqi Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Existing text classification methods mainly focus on a fixed label set, whereas many real-world applications require extending to new fine-grained classes as the number of samples per label increases. To accommodate such requirements, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Dheeraj Mekala , Varun Gangal , Jingbo Shang

Few-shot fine-grained recognition (FS-FGR) aims to recognize novel fine-grained categories with the help of limited available samples. Undoubtedly, this task inherits the main challenges from both few-shot learning and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zican Zha , Hao Tang , Yunlian Sun , Jinhui Tang

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

Learning to recognize novel visual categories from a few examples is a challenging task for machines in real-world industrial applications. In contrast, humans have the ability to discriminate even similar objects with little supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Xin Sun , Hongwei Xv , Junyu Dong , Qiong Li , Changrui Chen

Text-to-image synthesis refers to generating visual-realistic and semantically consistent images from given textual descriptions. Previous approaches generate an initial low-resolution image and then refine it to be high-resolution. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Haoran Sun , Yang Wang , Haipeng Liu , Biao Qian

Intra-class variability is given according to the significance in the degree of dissimilarity between images within a class. In that sense, depending on its intensity, intra-class variability can hinder the learning process for DL models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Luciano Araujo Dourado Filho , Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby

Traditional fine-grained image classification typically relies on large-scale training samples with annotated ground-truth. However, some sub-categories have few available samples in real-world applications, and current few-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hegui Zhu , Zhan Gao , Jiayi Wang , Yange Zhou , Chengqing Li

The difficulty of the fine-grained image classification mainly comes from a shared overall appearance across classes. Thus, recognizing discriminative details, such as eyes and beaks for birds, is a key in the task. However, this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 SuBeen Lee , WonJun Moon , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

Deep networks can learn to accurately recognize objects of a category by training on a large number of annotated images. However, a meta-learning challenge known as a low-shot image recognition task comes when only a few images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengting Chen , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Wenyu Liu

Text-to-image generative models have made significant advancements in recent years; however, accurately capturing intricate details in textual prompts-such as entity missing, attribute binding errors, and incorrect relationships remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Amir Mohammad Izadi , Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Soroush Vafaie Tabar , Ali Abdollahi , Armin Saghafian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

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

This paper proposes to go beyond the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) by incorporating the information from object detection, focusing on dealing with fine-grained image classification. Unfortunately, CNN suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang , Guobin Chen , Yuanqing Lin

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Fine-grained category discovery using only coarse-grained supervision is a cost-effective yet challenging task. Previous training methods focus on aligning query samples with positive samples and distancing them from negatives. They often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chang Tian , Matthew B. Blaschko , Wenpeng Yin , Mingzhe Xing , Yinliang Yue , Marie-Francine Moens

The fine-grained classification of brain tumor subtypes from histopathological whole slide images is highly challenging due to subtle morphological variations and the scarcity of annotated data. Although vision-language models have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lubin Gan , Jing Zhang , Linhao Qu , Yijun Wang , Siying Wu , Xiaoyan Sun

Fine-grained few-shot recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for novel categories.The network tends to overfit and does not generalize well to unseen classes due to insufficient training data. Many methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Mingzhen Huang , ShahRukh Athar , Dimitris Samaras

Existing image-to-image transformation approaches primarily focus on synthesizing visually pleasing data. Generating images with correct identity labels is challenging yet much less explored. It is even more challenging to deal with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wei Xiong , Yutong He , Yixuan Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Lin Ma , Jiebo Luo

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

This paper tackles the problem of learning a finer representation than the one provided by training labels. This enables fine-grained category retrieval of images in a collection annotated with coarse labels only. Our network is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hugo Touvron , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Matthieu Cord , Hervé Jégou