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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

Labeling objects at a subordinate level typically requires expert knowledge, which is not always available when using random annotators. As such, learning directly from web images for fine-grained recognition has attracted broad attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Huafeng Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Yazhou Yao , Xiushen Wei , Fumin Shen , Jian Zhang , Zhenmin Tang

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

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

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

Fine-grained image classification, the task of distinguishing between visually similar subcategories within a broader category (e.g., bird species, car models, flower types), is a challenging computer vision problem. Traditional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dmitry Demidov , Zaigham Zaheer , Omkar Thawakar , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

State-of-the-art methods for zero-shot visual recognition formulate learning as a joint embedding problem of images and side information. In these formulations the current best complement to visual features are attributes: manually encoded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Scott Reed , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele , Honglak Lee

Current approaches for fine-grained recognition do the following: First, recruit experts to annotate a dataset of images, optionally also collecting more structured data in the form of part annotations and bounding boxes. Second, train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Jonathan Krause , Benjamin Sapp , Andrew Howard , Howard Zhou , Alexander Toshev , Tom Duerig , James Philbin , Li Fei-Fei

Fine-grained image classification involves identifying different subcategories of a class which possess very subtle discriminatory features. Fine-grained datasets usually provide bounding box annotations along with class labels to aid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Farha Al Breiki , Muhammad Ridzuan , Rushali Grandhe

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

Fine-grained image-text alignment is a pivotal challenge in multimodal learning, underpinning key applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and vision-language navigation. Unlike global alignment, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiale Liu , Haoming Zhou , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen , Yuncheng Jiang

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

Vocabulary-free fine-grained image recognition aims to distinguish visually similar categories within a meta-class without a fixed, human-defined label set. Existing solutions for this problem are limited by either the usage of a large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dmitry Demidov , Zaigham Zaheer , Zongyan Han , Omkar Thawakar , Rao Anwer

Learning fine-grained image similarity is a challenging task. It needs to capture between-class and within-class image differences. This paper proposes a deep ranking model that employs deep learning techniques to learn similarity metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Jiang Wang , Yang song , Thomas Leung , Chuck Rosenberg , Jinbin Wang , James Philbin , Bo Chen , Ying Wu

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

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

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 challenging computer vision problem, due to the small inter-class variations caused by highly similar subordinate categories, and the large intra-class variations in poses, scales and rotations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xiu-Shen Wei , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu

The aim of fine-grained recognition is to identify sub-ordinate categories in images like different species of birds. Existing works have confirmed that, in order to capture the subtle differences across the categories, automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhiqiang Shen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dequan Wang , Xiangyang Xue

We present an interpretable deep model for fine-grained visual recognition. At the core of our method lies the integration of region-based part discovery and attribution within a deep neural network. Our model is trained using image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixuan Huang , Yin Li
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