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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

Face recognition has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the central task of which is how to improve the feature discrimination. To this end, several margin-based (\textit{e.g.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Shuo Wang , Tianyu Fu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained with the Softmax loss are widely used classification models for several vision tasks. Typically, a learnable transformation (i.e. the classifier) is placed at the end of such models returning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Claudio Baecchi , Alberto Del Bimbo

We present an approach to learn a dense pixel-wise labeling from image-level tags. Each image-level tag imposes constraints on the output labeling of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier. We propose Constrained CNN (CCNN), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krähenbühl , Trevor Darrell

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image and video super-resolution (SR) regularly achieve new state-of-the-art performance, they also suffer from significant drawbacks. One of their limitations is their lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Alice Lucas , Santiago Lopez-Tapia , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Classifying the sub-categories of an object from the same super-category (e.g. bird species, car and aircraft models) in fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) highly relies on discriminative feature representation and accurate region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifeng Ding , Shaoguo Wen , Jiyang Xie , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Zhongwei Si , Haibin Ling

For the convolutional neural network (CNN) used for pattern classification, the training loss function is usually applied to the final output of the network, except for some regularization constraints on the network parameters. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Qiuyu Zhu , Hao Wang , Xuewen Zu , Chengfei Liu

Any entity in the visual world can be hierarchically grouped based on shared characteristics and mapped to fine-grained sub-categories. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on coarse-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hulingxiao He , Zijun Geng , Yuxin Peng

Key for solving fine-grained image categorization is finding discriminate and local regions that correspond to subtle visual traits. Great strides have been made, with complex networks designed specifically to learn part-level discriminate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Dongliang Chang , Yifeng Ding , Jiyang Xie , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Xiaoxu Li , Zhanyu Ma , Ming Wu , Jun Guo , Yi-Zhe Song

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) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

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

The term fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) refers to classification tasks where the classes are very similar and the classification model needs to be able to find subtle differences to make the correct prediction. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) task refers to learn a mapping from low-resolution images to the corresponding high-resolution ones. This task is known to be extremely difficult since it is an ill-posed problem. Recently, Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Seyed Mehdi Ayyoubzadeh , Xiaolin Wu

Deep neural networks, albeit their great success on feature learning in various computer vision tasks, are usually considered as impractical for online visual tracking because they require very long training time and a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Fatih Porikli

Attention-based learning for fine-grained image recognition remains a challenging task, where most of the existing methods treat each object part in isolation, while neglecting the correlations among them. In addition, the multi-stage or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Ming Sun , Yuchen Yuan , Feng Zhou , Errui Ding

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for image classification. Despite its high accuracies, CNN has been shown to be easily fooled by some adversarial examples, indicating that CNN is not robust enough for pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hong-Ming Yang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

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

A reliable fault diagnosis system should not only accurately classify known health states but also effectively identify unknown faults. In multimode processes, samples belonging to the same health state often show multiple cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Guangqiang Li , M. Amine Atoui , Xiangshun Li

Discriminative features are critical for machine learning applications. Most existing deep learning approaches, however, rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for learning features, whose discriminant power is not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Fusheng Hao , Jun Cheng , Lei Wang , Xinchao Wang , Jianzhong Cao , Xiping Hu , Dapeng Tao