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Identifying subordinate-level categories from images is a longstanding task in computer vision and is referred to as fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR). It has tremendous significance in real-world applications since an average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Wenjing Li , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Fine-grained visual categorization is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, which is a highly challenging task due to the quite subtle and local visual distinctions among similar subcategories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

In fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC), there is a near-singular focus in pursuit of attaining state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy. This work carefully analyzes the performance of recent SOTA methods, quantitatively, but more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Connor Anderson , Matt Gwilliam , Adam Teuscher , Andrew Merrill , Ryan Farrell

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to categorize objects into subordinate classes instead of basic classes. One major challenge in FGVC is the co-occurrence of two issues: 1) many subordinate classes are highly correlated and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Qi Qian , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu , Yuanqing Lin

Text in natural images contains rich semantics that are often highly relevant to objects or scene. In this paper, we focus on the problem of fully exploiting scene text for visual understanding. The main idea is combining word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Xiang Bai , Mingkun Yang , Pengyuan Lyu , Yongchao Xu , Jiebo Luo

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

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

The challenge of fine-grained visual recognition often lies in discovering the key discriminative regions. While such regions can be automatically identified from a large-scale labeled dataset, a similar method might become less effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yangyang Shu , Baosheng Yu , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

Improving the performance on an imbalanced training set is one of the main challenges in nowadays Machine Learning. One way to augment and thus re-balance the image dataset is through existing deep generative models, like class-conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Chenqi Guo , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Qianli Feng , Aleix Martinez

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging computer vision task where various species share similar visual appearances, resulting in misclassification if merely based on visual clues. Therefore, it is helpful to leverage additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lingfeng Yang , Xiang Li , Renjie Song , Borui Zhao , Juntian Tao , Shihao Zhou , Jiajun Liang , Jian Yang

The acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data is a resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Compared to conventional Data Augmentation (DA) techniques (e.g. cropping and rotation), exploiting prevailing diffusion models for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunxiang Fu , Chaoqi Chen , Yu Qiao , Yizhou Yu

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jacob Schnell , Jieke Wang , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Meng Tang

Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation learning. The standard approach to data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Kyle Doherty , Max Gurinas , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

The performance of current Scene Graph Generation models is severely hampered by some hard-to-distinguish predicates, e.g., "woman-on/standing on/walking on-beach" or "woman-near/looking at/in front of-child". While general SGG models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Xinyu Lyu , Lianli Gao , Yuyu Guo , Zhou Zhao , Hao Huang , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Fine-grained visual classification can be addressed by deep representation learning under supervision of manually pre-defined targets (e.g., one-hot or the Hadamard codes). Such target coding schemes are less flexible to model inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Kui Jia

Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

Low resolution fine-grained classification has widespread applicability for applications where data is captured at a distance such as surveillance and mobile photography. While fine-grained classification with high resolution images has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Fine-grained image analysis (FGIA) is a longstanding and fundamental problem in computer vision and pattern recognition, and underpins a diverse set of real-world applications. The task of FGIA targets analyzing visual objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xiu-Shen Wei , Yi-Zhe Song , Oisin Mac Aodha , Jianxin Wu , Yuxin Peng , Jinhui Tang , Jian Yang , Serge Belongie