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Place recognition is a challenging but crucial task in robotics. Current description-based methods may be limited by representation capabilities, while pairwise similarity-based methods require exhaustive searches, which is time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Chencan Fu , Lin Li , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Linpeng Peng , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Fine-grained image recognition (FGIR) aims to distinguish visually similar sub-categories within a broader class, such as identifying bird species. While most existing FGIR methods rely on backbones pretrained on large-scale datasets like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Edwin Arkel Rios , Fernando Mikael , Oswin Gosal , Femiloye Oyerinde , Hao-Chun Liang , Bo-Cheng Lai , Min-Chun Hu

Current approaches for fine-grained recognition do the following: First, recruit experts to annotate a dataset of images, optionally also collecting more structured data in the form of part annotations and bounding boxes. Second, train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Jonathan Krause , Benjamin Sapp , Andrew Howard , Howard Zhou , Alexander Toshev , Tom Duerig , James Philbin , Li Fei-Fei

In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised representation learning by taking advantage of a neighborhood-relational encoding (NRE) among the training data. Conventional unsupervised learning methods only focused on training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mohammad Sabokrou , Mohammad Khalooei , Ehsan Adeli

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is achieved via aligning the semantic relationships between the global image feature vector and the corresponding class semantic descriptions. However, using the global features to represent fine-grained images may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Fu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Fine-grained video classification requires understanding complex spatio-temporal and semantic cues that often exceed the capacity of a single modality. In this paper, we propose a multimodal framework that fuses video, image, and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Namho Kim , Junhwa Kim

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

Fine-grained classification tasks such as identifying different breeds of dog are quite challenging as visual differences between categories is quite small and can be easily overwhelmed by external factors such as object pose, lighting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 M. J. A. van Wezel , L. J. Hamburger , Y. Napolean

Fine-grained classification is challenging because categories can only be discriminated by subtle and local differences. Variances in the pose, scale or rotation usually make the problem more difficult. Most fine-grained classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tianjun Xiao , Yichong Xu , Kuiyuan Yang , Jiaxing Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Zheng Zhang

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

Text contained in an image carries high-level semantics that can be exploited to achieve richer image understanding. In particular, the mere presence of text provides strong guiding content that should be employed to tackle a diversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Andres Mafla , Sounak Dey , Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, such as 200 subcategories belonging to the bird, which is highly challenging due to large variance in the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Yuxin Peng , Xiangteng He , Junjie Zhao

Object categories inherently form a hierarchy with different levels of concept abstraction, especially for fine-grained categories. For example, birds (Aves) can be categorized according to a four-level hierarchy of order, family, genus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Tianshui Chen , Wenxi Wu , Yuefang Gao , Le Dong , Xiaonan Luo , Liang Lin

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

Transformers rely on explicit positional encoding to model structure in data. While Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) excels in 1D domains, its application to image generation reveals significant limitations such as fine-grained spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jiaye Li , Baoyou Chen , Hui Li , Zilong Dong , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

We consider the problem of fine-grained classification on an edge camera device that has limited power. The edge device must sparingly interact with the cloud to minimize communication bits to conserve power, and the cloud upon receiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama , Stan Sclaroff , Vitaly Ablavsky

Triggered by the success of transformers in various visual tasks, the spatial self-attention mechanism has recently attracted more and more attention in the computer vision community. However, we empirically found that a typical vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jiayin Sun , Hong Wang , Qiulei Dong

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

Intra-class variations in the open world lead to various challenges in classification tasks. To overcome these challenges, fine-grained classification was introduced, and many approaches were proposed. Some rely on locating and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Salwa Al Khatib , Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Jameel Hassan

The term fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) refers to classification tasks where the classes are very similar and the classification model needs to be able to find subtle differences to make the correct prediction. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney