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Whether what you see in Figure 1 is a "flamingo" or a "bird", is the question we ask in this paper. While fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) strives to arrive at the former, for the majority of us non-experts just "bird" would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dongliang Chang , Kaiyue Pang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Yi-Zhe Song , Jun Guo

In recent years, Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) has achieved impressive recognition accuracy, despite minimal inter-class variations. However, existing methods heavily rely on instance-level labels, making them impractical in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jinyi Chang , Dongliang Chang , Lei Chen , Bingyao Yu , Zhanyu Ma

Fine-grained image classification has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning and computer vision technologies. However, the scarcity of detailed annotations remains a major challenge, especially in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Bowen Tian , Songning Lai , Lujundong Li , Zhihao Shuai , Runwei Guan , Tian Wu , Yutao Yue

Biased data can lead to unfair machine learning models, highlighting the importance of embedding fairness at the beginning of data analysis, particularly during dataset curation and labeling. In response, we propose Falcon, a scalable fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ki Hyun Tae , Hantian Zhang , Jaeyoung Park , Kexin Rong , Steven Euijong Whang

Existing text classification methods mainly focus on a fixed label set, whereas many real-world applications require extending to new fine-grained classes as the number of samples per label increases. To accommodate such requirements, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Dheeraj Mekala , Varun Gangal , Jingbo Shang

We propose Automatic Feature Explanation using Contrasting Concepts (FALCON), an interpretability framework to explain features of image representations. For a target feature, FALCON captions its highly activating cropped images using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Neha Kalibhat , Shweta Bhardwaj , Bayan Bruss , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

Instance-level image classification tasks have traditionally relied on single-instance labels to train models, e.g., few-shot learning and transfer learning. However, set-level coarse-grained labels that capture relationships among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Renyu Zhang , Aly A. Khan , Yuxin Chen , Robert L. Grossman

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 classification involves dealing with datasets with larger number of classes with subtle differences between them. Guiding the model to focus on differentiating dimensions between these commonly confusable classes is key to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Varsha Suresh , Desmond C. Ong

One important characteristic of modern fault classification systems is the ability to flag the system when faced with previously unseen fault types. This work considers the unknown fault detection capabilities of deep neural network-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Nurettin Sergin , Jiayu Huang , Tzyy-Shuh Chang , Hao Yan

We evaluate the effectiveness of semi-supervised learning (SSL) on a realistic benchmark where data exhibits considerable class imbalance and contains images from novel classes. Our benchmark consists of two fine-grained classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jong-Chyi Su , Zezhou Cheng , Subhransu Maji

Learning discriminative representations for subtle localized details plays a significant role in Fine-grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Compared to previous attention-based works, our work does not explicitly define or localize the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ranran Huang , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

We present an end-to-end deep network for fine-grained visual categorization called Collaborative Convolutional Network (CoCoNet). The network uses a collaborative layer after the convolutional layers to represent an image as an optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Tapabrata Chakraborti , Brendan McCane , Steven Mills , Umapada Pal

Fine-grained classification remains a very challenging problem, because of the absence of well-labeled training data caused by the high cost of annotating a large number of fine-grained categories. In the extreme case, given a set of test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Li Niu , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ashu Sabharwal

The Coarse-to-Fine Few-Shot (C2FS) task is designed to train models using only coarse labels, then leverages a limited number of subclass samples to achieve fine-grained recognition capabilities. This task presents two main challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xin-yang Zhao , Jian Jin , Yang-yang Li , Yazhou Yao

Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) aims at distinguishing highly similar sub-categories within fine-grained objects, such as different soybean cultivars. Compared to traditional fine-grained visual categorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yu Liu , Yaqi Cai , Qi Jia , Binglin Qiu , Weimin Wang , Nan Pu

Fine-grained entity type classification (FETC) is the task of classifying an entity mention to a broad set of types. Distant supervision paradigm is extensively used to generate training data for this task. However, generated training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Abhishek , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar

Designing analog circuits from performance specifications is a complex, multi-stage process encompassing topology selection, parameter inference, and layout feasibility. We introduce FALCON, a unified machine learning framework that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Asal Mehradfar , Xuzhe Zhao , Yilun Huang , Emir Ceyani , Yankai Yang , Shihao Han , Hamidreza Aghasi , Salman Avestimehr

We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system for fine-grained image classification, called a mixture of DCNNs (MixDCNN). The fine-grained image classification problem is characterised by large intra-class variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 ZongYuan Ge , Alex Bewley , Christopher McCool , Ben Upcroft , Peter Corke , Conrad Sanderson

Machine learning as a service has been widely deployed to utilize deep neural network models to provide prediction services. However, this raises privacy concerns since clients need to send sensitive information to servers. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Shaohua Li , Kaiping Xue , Chenkai Ding , Xindi Gao , David S L Wei , Tao Wan , Feng Wu