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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

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

High-quality annotation of fine-grained visual categories demands great expert knowledge, which is taxing and time consuming. Alternatively, learning fine-grained visual representation from enormous unlabeled images (e.g., species, brands)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qi Bi , Wei Ji , Jingjun Yi , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

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) involves categorizing fine subdivisions within a broader category, which poses challenges due to subtle inter-class discrepancies and large intra-class variations. However, prevailing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xin Jiang , Hao Tang , Junyao Gao , Xiaoyu Du , Shengfeng He , Zechao Li

Humans are capable of learning a new fine-grained concept with very little supervision, \emph{e.g.}, few exemplary images for a species of bird, yet our best deep learning systems need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Jianxin Wu

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

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is an important but challenging task due to high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances caused by deformation, occlusion, illumination, etc. An attention convolutional binary neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruyi Ji , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang , Dawei Du , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Feiyue Huang

Fine-grained visual categorization is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, which is a highly challenging task due to the quite subtle and local visual distinctions among similar subcategories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

Locating discriminative parts plays a key role in fine-grained visual classification due to the high similarities between different objects. Recent works based on convolutional neural networks utilize the feature maps taken from the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jianwei Song , Ruoyu Yang

Open-set image recognition is a challenging topic in computer vision. Most of the existing works in literature focus on learning more discriminative features from the input images, however, they are usually insensitive to the high- or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Qiulei Dong , Jiayin Sun , Mengyu Gao

Fine-Grained Visual Classification(FGVC) is the task that requires recognizing the objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories of a super-category. Recent state-of-the-art methods usually design sophisticated learning pipelines to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qishuai Diao , Yi Jiang , Bin Wen , Jia Sun , Zehuan Yuan

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

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

Classifying the sub-categories of an object from the same super-category (e.g., bird) in a fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) task highly relies on mining multiple discriminative features. Existing approaches mainly tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yifeng Ding , Shuwei Dong , Yujun Tong , Zhanyu Ma , Bo Xiao , Haibin Ling

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

Existing fine-grained visual categorization methods often suffer from three challenges: lack of training data, large number of fine-grained categories, and high intraclass vs. low inter-class variance. In this work we propose a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yin Cui , Feng Zhou , Yuanqing Lin , Serge Belongie

This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Subhransu Maji , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala , Matthew Blaschko , Andrea Vedaldi

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