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Image classification has advanced significantly in recent years with the availability of large-scale image sets. However, fine-grained classification remains a major challenge due to the annotation cost of large numbers of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Zeynep Akata , Scott Reed , Daniel Walter , Honglak Lee , Bernt Schiele

Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD) aims to leverage semantic descriptions to localize and recognize objects of both seen and unseen classes. Existing ZSD works are mainly coarse-grained object detection, where the classes are visually quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hongxu Ma , Chenbo Zhang , Lu Zhang , Jiaogen Zhou , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Most of us are not experts in specific fields, such as ornithology. Nonetheless, we do have general image and language understanding capabilities that we use to match what we see to expert resources. This allows us to expand our knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

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

Few-shot, fine-grained classification requires a model to learn subtle, fine-grained distinctions between different classes (e.g., birds) based on a few images alone. This requires a remarkable degree of invariance to pose, articulation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Luming Tang , Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan

We present a deep generative model for learning to predict classes not seen at training time. Unlike most existing methods for this problem, that represent each class as a point (via a semantic embedding), we represent each seen/unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Vinay Kumar Verma , Kai Fan , Yizhe Zhang , Changyou Chen , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Fine-grained categorisation has been a challenging problem due to small inter-class variation, large intra-class variation and low number of training images. We propose a learning system which first clusters visually similar classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Zongyuan Ge , Christopher Mccool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Pretrained language models have improved zero-shot text classification by allowing the transfer of semantic knowledge from the training data in order to classify among specific label sets in downstream tasks. We propose a simple way to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lingyu Gao , Debanjan Ghosh , Kevin Gimpel

In this paper, we categorize fine-grained images without using any object / part annotation neither in the training nor in the testing stage, a step towards making it suitable for deployments. Fine-grained image categorization aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yu Zhang , Xiu-shen Wei , Jianxin Wu , Jianfei Cai , Jiangbo Lu , Viet-Anh Nguyen , Minh N. Do

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

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

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is achieved via aligning the semantic relationships between the global image feature vector and the corresponding class semantic descriptions. However, using the global features to represent fine-grained images may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Fu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Fine-grained recognition, a pivotal task in visual signal processing, aims to distinguish between similar subclasses based on discriminative information present in samples. However, prevailing methods often erroneously focus on background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yuetian Wang , Wenjin Hou , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Discovering fine-grained categories from coarsely labeled data is a practical and challenging task, which can bridge the gap between the demand for fine-grained analysis and the high annotation cost. Previous works mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Wenkai Shi , Yan Chen , Qinghua Zheng , QianYing Wang , Ping Chen

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen image categories by learning an embedding space between image and semantic representations. For years, among existing works, it has been the center task to learn the proper mapping matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yan Li , Junge Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Kaiqi Huang