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The way humans attend to, process and classify a given image has the potential to vastly benefit the performance of deep learning models. Exploiting where humans are focusing can rectify models when they are deviating from essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yao Rong , Wenjia Xu , Zeynep Akata , Enkelejda Kasneci

Recent object detection methods have made remarkable progress by leveraging attention mechanisms to improve feature discriminability. However, most existing approaches are confined to refining single-layer or fusing dual-layer features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dingzhou Xie , Rushi Lan , Cheng Pang , Enhao Ning , Jiahao Zeng , Wei Zheng

Fine-grained image recognition is central to many multimedia tasks such as search, retrieval and captioning. Unfortunately, these tasks are still challenging since the appearance of samples of the same class can be more different than those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Pau Rodríguez López , Diego Velazquez Dorta , Guillem Cucurull Preixens , Josep M. Gonfaus , F. Xavier Roca Marva , Jordi Gonzàlez Sabaté

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

As an important research topic in computer vision, fine-grained classification which aims to recognition subordinate-level categories has attracted significant attention. We propose a novel region based ensemble learning network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Weikuang Li , Tian Wang , Chuanyun Wang , Guangcun Shan , Mengyi Zhang , Hichem Snoussi

More and more evidence has shown that strengthening layer interactions can enhance the representation power of a deep neural network, while self-attention excels at learning interdependencies by retrieving query-activated information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yanwen Fang , Yuxi Cai , Jintai Chen , Jingyu Zhao , Guangjian Tian , Guodong Li

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

This paper presents experiments extending the work of Ba et al. (2014) on recurrent neural models for attention into less constrained visual environments, specifically fine-grained categorization on the Stanford Dogs data set. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Pierre Sermanet , Andrea Frome , Esteban Real

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

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

Whole-Slide Imaging allows for the capturing and digitization of high-resolution images of histological specimen. An automated analysis of such images using deep learning models is therefore of high demand. The transformer architecture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Firas Khader , Jakob Nikolas Kather , Tianyu Han , Sven Nebelung , Christiane Kuhl , Johannes Stegmaier , Daniel Truhn

Fine-grained classification models are designed to focus on the relevant details necessary to distinguish highly similar classes, particularly when intra-class variance is high and inter-class variance is low. Most existing models rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Nicola Landro

In the context of fine-grained visual categorization, the ability to interpret models as human-understandable visual manuals is sometimes as important as achieving high classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Part-Stacked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Shaoli Huang , Zhe Xu , Dacheng Tao , Ya Zhang

Graph convolutional networks have been widely used in skeleton-based action recognition. However, existing approaches are limited in fine-grained action recognition due to the similarity of inter-class data. Moreover, the noisy data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Sheng-Lan Liu , Yu-Ning Ding , Jin-Rong Zhang , Kai-Yuan Liu , Si-Fan Zhang , Fei-Long Wang , Gao Huang

The performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be improved by adjusting the interrelationship between channels with attention mechanism. However, attention mechanism in recent advance has not fully utilized spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 YuTao Shen , Ying Wen

Motivated by the desire to exploit patterns shared across classes, we present a simple yet effective class-specific memory module for fine-grained feature learning. The memory module stores the prototypical feature representation for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Weijian Deng , Joshua Marsh , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Affect is often expressed via non-verbal body language such as actions/gestures, which are vital indicators for human behaviors. Recent studies on recognition of fine-grained actions/gestures in monocular images have mainly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ardhendu Behera , Zachary Wharton , Morteza Ghahremani , Swagat Kumar , Nik Bessis

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is much more challenging than traditional classification tasks due to the inherently subtle intra-class object variations. Recent works mainly tackle this problem by focusing on how to locate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Jiyang Xie , Zhanyu Ma , Yi-Zhe Song , Jun Guo

Fine-grained image recognition is very challenging due to the difficulty of capturing both semantic global features and discriminative local features. Meanwhile, these two features are not easy to be integrated, which are even conflicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Shaokang Yang , Shuai Liu , Cheng Yang , Changhu Wang

Recent developments in gradient-based attention modeling have seen attention maps emerge as a powerful tool for interpreting convolutional neural networks. Despite good localization for an individual class of interest, these techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Lezi Wang , Ziyan Wu , Srikrishna Karanam , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Rajat Vikram Singh , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas