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Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) aims to categorize closely related subclasses, a task complicated by minimal inter-class differences and significant intra-class variance. Existing methods often rely on additional annotations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengxiang Gao , Yihao Liang , Yanzhi Song , Zhouwang Yang

Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task that recognizes the sub-classes belonging to the same meta-class. Large inter-class similarity and intra-class variance is the main challenge of this task. Most exiting methods try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Dongliang Chang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Ruoyi Du , Kongming Liang

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

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 aims to capture discriminative characteristics amongst visually similar categories. The state-of-the-art research work has significantly improved the fine-grained recognition performance by deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yan Bai , Feng Gao , Yihang Lou , Shiqi Wang , Tiejun Huang , Ling-Yu Duan

High-quality annotation of fine-grained visual categories demands great expert knowledge, which is taxing and time consuming. Alternatively, learning fine-grained visual representation from enormous unlabeled images (e.g., species, brands)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qi Bi , Wei Ji , Jingjun Yi , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

Fine-grained classification is a relatively new field that has concentrated on using information from a single image, while ignoring the enormous potential of using video data to improve classification. In this work we present the novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-17 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid , Peter Corke

Fine-grained image classification, which aims to distinguish images with subtle distinctions, is a challenging task due to two main issues: lack of sufficient training data for every class and difficulty in learning discriminative features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Liwei Wang , Tao Xiang , Xinqi Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Unsupervised fine-grained class clustering is a practical yet challenging task due to the difficulty of feature representations learning of subtle object details. We introduce C3-GAN, a method that leverages the categorical inference power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yunji Kim , Jung-Woo Ha

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) involves categorizing fine subdivisions within a broader category, which poses challenges due to subtle inter-class discrepancies and large intra-class variations. However, prevailing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xin Jiang , Hao Tang , Junyao Gao , Xiaoyu Du , Shengfeng He , Zechao Li

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

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, an off-the-shelf image generator can be applied to synthesize additional training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

Learning fine-grained image similarity is a challenging task. It needs to capture between-class and within-class image differences. This paper proposes a deep ranking model that employs deep learning techniques to learn similarity metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Jiang Wang , Yang song , Thomas Leung , Chuck Rosenberg , Jinbin Wang , James Philbin , Bo Chen , Ying Wu

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 visual categorization (FGVC) aims to discriminate similar subcategories, whose main challenge is the large intraclass diversities and subtle inter-class differences. Existing FGVC methods usually select discriminant regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yu Wang , Shuo Ye , Shujian Yu , Xinge You

We aim to provide a computationally cheap yet effective approach for fine-grained image classification (FGIC) in this letter. Unlike previous methods that rely on complex part localization modules, our approach learns fine-grained features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Luo , Hengmin Zhang , Jun Li , Xiu-Shen Wei

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in various visual understanding tasks. However, MLLMs still struggle with fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR), which aims to identify subordinate-level categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hulingxiao He , Geng Li , Zijun Geng , Jinglin Xu , Yuxin Peng

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

Recent advances in deep learning greatly boost the performance of object detection. State-of-the-art methods such as Faster-RCNN, FPN and R-FCN have achieved high accuracy in challenging benchmark datasets. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hao Yang , Hao Wu , Hao Chen

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