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Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have made remarkable progress, enabling sophisticated vision-language interaction and dialogue applications. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on reasoning tasks, often neglecting fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Cong Pang , Hongtao Yu , Zixuan Chen , Lewei Lu , Xin Lou

Fine-grained ship classification in remote sensing (RS-FGSC) poses a significant challenge due to the high similarity between classes and the limited availability of labeled data, limiting the effectiveness of traditional supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Long Lan , Fengxiang Wang , Xiangtao Zheng , Zengmao Wang , Xinwang Liu

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

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 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

State-of-the-art methods for zero-shot visual recognition formulate learning as a joint embedding problem of images and side information. In these formulations the current best complement to visual features are attributes: manually encoded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Scott Reed , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele , Honglak Lee

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

Computer vision (CV) is the process of using machines to understand and analyze imagery, which is an integral branch of artificial intelligence. Among various research areas of CV, fine-grained image analysis (FGIA) is a longstanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Xiu-Shen Wei , Jianxin Wu , Quan Cui

Fine-grained visual parsing, including fine-grained part segmentation and fine-grained object recognition, has attracted considerable critical attention due to its importance in many real-world applications, e.g., agriculture, remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

Over the past few years, a significant progress has been made in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based image recognition. This is mainly due to the strong ability of such networks in mining discriminative object pose and parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot transfer capabilities in image-level visual perception. However, these models have shown limited performance in instance-level tasks that demand precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Lingfeng Yang , Yueze Wang , Xiang Li , Xinlong Wang , Jian Yang

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

While pretraining on large-scale image-text data from the Web has facilitated rapid progress on many vision-and-language (V&L) tasks, recent work has demonstrated that pretrained models lack "fine-grained" understanding, such as the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Emanuele Bugliarello , Laurent Sartran , Aishwarya Agrawal , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Aida Nematzadeh

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

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate impressive abilities on numerous image understanding and reasoning tasks. The task of fine-grained object classification (e.g., distinction between \textit{animal species}), however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš

The challenges of high intra-class variance yet low inter-class fluctuations in fine-grained visual categorization are more severe with few labeled samples, \textit{i.e.,} Fine-Grained categorization problems under the Few-Shot setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Huaxi Huang , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Chang Xu

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

Explainability in artificial intelligence is crucial for restoring trust, particularly in areas like face forgery detection, where viewers often struggle to distinguish between real and fabricated content. Vision and Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Niki Maria Foteinopoulou , Enjie Ghorbel , Djamila Aouada

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