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Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is challenging due in part to the fact that it is often difficult to acquire an enough number of training samples. To employ large models for FGVC without suffering from overfitting, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yabin Zhang , Hui Tang , Kui Jia

Learning models that are robust to distribution shifts is a key concern in the context of their real-life applicability. Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) is a popular framework that aims to learn robust models from multiple environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Moulik Choraria , Ibtihal Ferwana , Ankur Mani , Lav R. Varshney

As fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) being developed for decades, great works related have exposed a key direction -- finding discriminative local regions and revealing subtle differences. However, unlike identifying visual contents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ruoyi Du , Wenqing Yu , Heqing Wang , Dongliang Chang , Ting-En Lin , Yongbin Li , Zhanyu Ma

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

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 Visual Recognition (FGVR) tackles the problem of distinguishing highly similar categories. One of the main approaches to FGVR, namely subset learning, tries to leverage information from existing class taxonomies to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Pablo Villacorta , Jesús M. Rodríguez-de-Vera , Marc Bolaños , Ignacio Sarasúa , Bhalaji Nagarajan , Petia Radeva

Existing image-to-image transformation approaches primarily focus on synthesizing visually pleasing data. Generating images with correct identity labels is challenging yet much less explored. It is even more challenging to deal with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wei Xiong , Yutong He , Yixuan Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Lin Ma , Jiebo Luo

Fine-grained recognition involves the classification of images from subordinate macro-categories, and it is challenging due to small inter-class differences. To overcome this, most methods perform discriminative feature selection enabled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Edwin Arkel Rios , Min-Chun Hu , Bo-Cheng Lai

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

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

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

We propose a novel unsupervised framework for \emph{Invariant Risk Minimization} (IRM), extending the concept of invariance to settings where labels are unavailable. Traditional IRM methods rely on labeled data to learn representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yotam Norman , Ron Meir

Invariant Causal Prediction (Peters et al., 2016) is a technique for out-of-distribution generalization which assumes that some aspects of the data distribution vary across the training set but that the underlying causal mechanisms remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Elan Rosenfeld , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

For the task of image classification, researchers work arduously to develop the next state-of-the-art (SOTA) model, each bench-marking their own performance against that of their predecessors and of their peers. Unfortunately, the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Matthew Gwilliam , Adam Teuscher , Connor Anderson , Ryan Farrell

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

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

This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Subhransu Maji , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala , Matthew Blaschko , Andrea Vedaldi

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

We introduce Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM), a learning paradigm to estimate invariant correlations across multiple training distributions. To achieve this goal, IRM learns a data representation such that the optimal classifier, on top…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Martin Arjovsky , Léon Bottou , Ishaan Gulrajani , David Lopez-Paz

The performance of machine learning models can be impacted by changes in data over time. A promising approach to address this challenge is invariant learning, with a particular focus on a method known as invariant risk minimization (IRM).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Wenlu Tang , Zicheng Liu