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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

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

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

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

Fine-grained visual recognition aims to capture discriminative characteristics amongst visually similar categories. The state-of-the-art research work has significantly improved the fine-grained recognition performance by deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yan Bai , Feng Gao , Yihang Lou , Shiqi Wang , Tiejun Huang , Ling-Yu Duan

Robots operating in human-centered environments, such as retail stores, restaurants, and households, are often required to distinguish between similar objects in different contexts with a high degree of accuracy. However, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Songsong Xiong , Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Fine Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) remains a challenging task in computer vision due to subtle inter class differences and fragile feature representations. Existing methods struggle in fine grained scenarios, especially when labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Mingquan Liu

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

The crux of resolving fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) lies in capturing discriminative and class-specific cues that correspond to subtle visual characteristics. Recently, frequency decomposition/transform based approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qin Xu , Lili Zhu , Xiaoxia Cheng , Bo Jiang

The Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) is challenging because the subtle inter-class variations are difficult to be captured. One notable research line uses the Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) layer to learn powerful representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Yue Song , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

Few-shot fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to leverage limited data to enable models to discriminate subtly distinct categories. Recent works mostly finetuned the pre-trained visual language models to achieve performance gain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hongyu Guo , Xiangzhao Hao , Jiarui Guo , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) is one of the most authoritative academic competitions in the field of Computer Vision (CV) in recent years. But applying ILSVRC's annual champion directly to fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Fan Zhang , Meng Li , Guisheng Zhai , Yizhao Liu

Visual classification can be divided into coarse-grained and fine-grained classification. Coarse-grained classification represents categories with a large degree of dissimilarity, such as the classification of cats and dogs, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Po-Yung Chou , Cheng-Hung Lin , Wen-Chung Kao

Fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) is to learn visual representations that distinguish visually similar objects while maintaining generalization. Existing methods propose to generate discriminative features, but rarely consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin Jiang , Hao Tang , Rui Yan , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

Fine-grained Visual Classification (FGVC) aims to identify objects from subcategories. It is a very challenging task because of the subtle inter-class differences. Existing research applies large-scale convolutional neural networks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Zhenxin Wu , Qingliang Chen , Yifeng Liu , Yinqi Zhang , Chengkai Zhu , Yang Yu

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

Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jason Kahei Tam , Murilo Gustineli , Anthony Miyaguchi

Extracting discriminative features plays a crucial role in the fine-grained visual classification task. Most of the existing methods focus on developing attention or augmentation mechanisms to achieve this goal. However, addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a promising approach for addressing issues related to model compression, security privacy, and transmission restrictions. Although the existing methods exploiting DFKD have achieved inspiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Jun Wang