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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

Any entity in the visual world can be hierarchically grouped based on shared characteristics and mapped to fine-grained sub-categories. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on coarse-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hulingxiao He , Zijun Geng , Yuxin Peng

Fine-grained image classification involves identifying different subcategories of a class which possess very subtle discriminatory features. Fine-grained datasets usually provide bounding box annotations along with class labels to aid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Farha Al Breiki , Muhammad Ridzuan , Rushali Grandhe

While the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) problems have been greatly developed in the past years, the Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) problems have been understudied. FGVC aims at classifying objects from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zicheng Pan , Xiaohan Yu , Miaohua Zhang , Yongsheng Gao

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is a challenging task due to similar visual appearances between various species. Previous studies always implicitly assume that the training and test data have the same underlying distributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuo Ye , Shujian Yu , Wenjin Hou , Yu Wang , Xinge You

Fine-grained Visual Recognition (FGVR) involves distinguishing between visually similar categories, which is inherently challenging due to subtle inter-class differences and the need for large, expert-annotated datasets. In domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Fine-grained categorisation has been a challenging problem due to small inter-class variation, large intra-class variation and low number of training images. We propose a learning system which first clusters visually similar classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Zongyuan Ge , Christopher Mccool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Fine-grained categories are more difficulty distinguished than generic categories due to the similarity of inter-class and the diversity of intra-class. Therefore, the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is considered as one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Guo Lihua , Guo Chenggan

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

Intra-class variability is given according to the significance in the degree of dissimilarity between images within a class. In that sense, depending on its intensity, intra-class variability can hinder the learning process for DL models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Luciano Araujo Dourado Filho , Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) is known as a challenging task due to subtle differences among subordinate categories. Many current FGVC approaches focus on identifying and locating discriminative regions by using the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Hui Wang , Yueyang li , Haichi Luo

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 Classification (FGVC) is a longstanding and fundamental problem in computer vision and pattern recognition, and underpins a diverse set of real-world applications. This paper describes our contribution at SnakeCLEF2022…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yong Huang , Aderon Huang , Wei Zhu , Yanming Fang , Jinghua Feng

Fine-grained visual understanding is shifting from static classification to knowledge-augmented reasoning, where models must justify as well as recognise. Existing approaches remain limited by closed-set taxonomies and single-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Junhan Chen , Zilu Zhou , Yujun Tong , Dongliang Chang , Yitao Luo , Zhanyu Ma

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

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

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 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 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

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) aims to discriminate similar subcategories, whose main challenge is the large intraclass diversities and subtle inter-class differences. Existing FGVC methods usually select discriminant regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yu Wang , Shuo Ye , Shujian Yu , Xinge You