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Visual Recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in AI, where the goal is to understand the semantics of visual data. Employing mid-level representation, in particular, shifted the paradigm in visual recognition. The mid-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Moin Nabi

Vehicle instance retrieval often requires one to recognize the fine-grained visual differences between vehicles. Besides the holistic appearance of vehicles which is easily affected by the viewpoint variation and distortion, vehicle parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xinyu Zhang , Rufeng Zhang , Jiewei Cao , Dong Gong , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

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

Part-based approaches for fine-grained recognition do not show the expected performance gain over global methods, although explicitly focusing on small details that are relevant for distinguishing highly similar classes. We assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

Intra-class variations in the open world lead to various challenges in classification tasks. To overcome these challenges, fine-grained classification was introduced, and many approaches were proposed. Some rely on locating and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Salwa Al Khatib , Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Jameel Hassan

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

In this paper, we present PARTICUL, a novel algorithm for unsupervised learning of part detectors from datasets used in fine-grained recognition. It exploits the macro-similarities of all images in the training set in order to mine for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Romain Xu-Darme , Georges Quénot , Zakaria Chihani , Marie-Christine Rousset

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

Given a training dataset composed of images and corresponding category labels, deep convolutional neural networks show a strong ability in mining discriminative parts for image classification. However, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Weifeng Ge , Xiangru Lin , Yizhou Yu

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging task due to the large intra-class variance and small inter-class variance, aiming at recognizing hundreds of sub-categories belonging to the same basic-level category. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

Computer vision based fine-grained recognition has received great attention in recent years. Existing works focus on discriminative part localization and feature learning. In this paper, to improve the performance of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

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 object retrieval aims to learn discriminative representation to retrieve visually similar objects. However, existing top-performing works usually impose pairwise similarities on the semantic embedding spaces or design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Wang , Jianlong Chang , Zhihui Wang , Haojie Li , Wanli Ouyang , Qi Tian

Recognizing objects from subcategories with very subtle differences remains a challenging task due to the large intra-class and small inter-class variation. Recent work tackles this problem in a weakly-supervised manner: object parts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Wei Luo , Xitong Yang , Xianjie Mo , Yuheng Lu , Larry S. Davis , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Deep Neural Network has shown great strides in the coarse-grained image classification task. It was in part due to its strong ability to extract discriminative feature representations from the images. However, the marginal visual difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Prateek Shroff , Tianlong Chen , Yunchao Wei , Zhangyang Wang

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Quanshi Zhang , Xin Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Huilin Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu

Fine-grained open-vocabulary object detection (FG-OVD) aims to detect novel object categories described by attribute-rich texts. While existing open-vocabulary detectors show promise at the base-category level, they underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiaming Li , Zhijia Liang , Weikai Chen , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

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