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Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to distinguish the sub-classes of the same category and its essential solution is to mine the subtle and discriminative regions. Convolution neural networks (CNNs), which employ the cross…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Siqing Zhang , Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

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

In this paper, we address the extraction of the fine-grained attributes of an instance as a `multi-attribute classification' problem. To this end, we propose an end-to-end architecture by adopting the bi-linear Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Roshanak Zakizadeh , Michele Sasdelli , Yu Qian , Eduard Vazquez

Few-shot fine-grained visual categorization (FS-FGVC) focuses on identifying various subcategories within a common superclass given just one or few support examples. Most existing methods aim to boost classification accuracy by enriching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhiwen Yang , Jinglin Xu , Yuxin Pen

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims at extending a generic detector for novel object detection with only a few training examples. It attracts great concerns recently due to the practical meanings. Meta-learning has been demonstrated to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zichen Wang , Bo Yang , Haonan Yue , Zhenghao Ma

To make the best use of the underlying minute and subtle differences, fine-grained classifiers collect information about inter-class variations. The task is very challenging due to the small differences between the colors, viewpoint, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes , Lars Petersson

Fine-grained image classification has emerged as a significant challenge because objects in such images have small inter-class visual differences but with large variations in pose, lighting, and viewpoints, etc. Most existing work focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

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

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) requires models to focus on subtle, task-relevant regions rather than broad object context. We present The Loupe, a lightweight plug-and-play spatial gating module for hierarchical Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Naren Sengodan

Transferring the knowledge learned from large scale datasets (e.g., ImageNet) via fine-tuning offers an effective solution for domain-specific fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) tasks (e.g., recognizing bird species or car make and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Cui , Yang Song , Chen Sun , Andrew Howard , Serge Belongie

We present a simple approach to make pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs) interpretable for fine-grained analysis, aiming to identify and localize the traits that distinguish visually similar categories, such as bird species. Pre-trained…

Real-world vision based applications require fine-grained classification for various area of interest like e-commerce, mobile applications, warehouse management, etc. where reducing the severity of mistakes and improving the classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Sudeep Kumar Sahoo , Sathish Chalasani , Abhishek Joshi , Kiran Nanjunda Iyer

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot transfer capabilities in image-level visual perception. However, these models have shown limited performance in instance-level tasks that demand precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Lingfeng Yang , Yueze Wang , Xiang Li , Xinlong Wang , Jian Yang

Accurate identification of cat breeds from images is a challenging task due to subtle differences in fur patterns, facial structure, and color. In this paper, we present a deep learning-based approach for classifying cat breeds using a…

Deploying deep learning models for Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) on resource-constrained edge devices remains a significant challenge. While deep architectures achieve high accuracy on benchmarks like CUB-200-2011, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Cheng Ying Wu , Yen Jui Chang

The increasingly dense traffic is becoming a challenge in our local settings, urging the need for a better traffic monitoring and management system. Fine-grained vehicle classification appears to be a challenging task as compared to vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Syeda Aneeba Najeeb , Rana Hammad Raza , Adeel Yusuf , Zamra Sultan

In recent years, supervised learning using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has achieved great success in image classification tasks, and large scale labeled datasets have contributed significantly to this achievement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Zhuo Chen , Ruizhou Ding , Ting-Wu Chin , Diana Marculescu

Fine-Grained Image Classification (FGIC) remains a complex task in computer vision, as it requires models to distinguish between categories with subtle localized visual differences. Well-studied CNN-based models, while strong in local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Boris Kriuk , Simranjit Kaur Gill , Shoaib Aslam , Amir Fakhrutdinov

We study the problem of object detection over scanned images of scientific documents. We consider images that contain objects of varying aspect ratios and sizes and range from coarse elements such as tables and figures to fine elements such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Ankur Goswami , Joshua McGrath , Shanan Peters , Theodoros Rekatsinas

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data containing both seen and novel categories. Although existing methods perform well on generic datasets, they struggle in fine-grained scenarios. We attribute this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Enguang Wang , Zhimao Peng , Zhengyuan Xie , Haori Lu , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu