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Fine-grained classification aims at distinguishing between items with similar global perception and patterns, but that differ by minute details. Our primary challenges come from both small inter-class variations and large intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Charles A. Kantor , Marta Skreta , Brice Rauby , Léonard Boussioux , Emmanuel Jehanno , Alexandra Luccioni , David Rolnick , Hugues Talbot

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery demands precise spatial boundaries and robust intra-class consistency, challenging conventional hierarchical models. To address limitations arising from spatial domain feature fusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhongtao Wang , Xizhe Cao , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

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

The recognition ability of human beings is developed in a progressive way. Usually, children learn to discriminate various objects from coarse to fine-grained with limited supervision. Inspired by this learning process, we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Huaxi Huang , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Jingsong Xu

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo in a given query sketch. However, its widespread applicability is limited by the fact that it is difficult to draw a complete sketch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Dawei Dai , Xiaoyu Tang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen

We propose a metadata-aware self-supervised learning~(SSL)~framework useful for fine-grained classification and ecological mapping of bird species around the world. Our framework unifies two SSL strategies: Contrastive Learning~(CL) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Aayush Dhakal , Di Huang , Nathan Jacobs

Automatic plant classification is a challenging problem due to the wide biodiversity of the existing plant species in a fine-grained scenario. Powerful deep learning architectures have been used to improve the classification performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Voncarlos M. Araujo , Alceu S. Britto , Luiz E. S. Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

The task of fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) deals with classification problems that display a small inter-class variance such as distinguishing between different bird species or car models. State-of-the-art approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

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

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 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

Hierarchical classification predicts labels across multiple levels of a taxonomy, e.g., from coarse-level 'Bird' to mid-level 'Hummingbird' to fine-level 'Green hermit', allowing flexible recognition under varying visual conditions. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Seulki Park , Youren Zhang , Stella X. Yu , Sara Beery , Jonathan Huang

The aim of fine-grained recognition is to identify sub-ordinate categories in images like different species of birds. Existing works have confirmed that, in order to capture the subtle differences across the categories, automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhiqiang Shen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dequan Wang , Xiangyang Xue

Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

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

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

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims at finding a specific image from a large gallery given a query sketch. Despite the widespread applicability of FG-SBIR in many critical domains (e.g., crime activity tracking),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dingrong Wang , Hitesh Sapkota , Xumin Liu , Qi Yu

In this paper, we address the extraction of the fine-grained attributes of an instance as a `multi-attribute classification' problem. To this end, we propose an end-to-end architecture by adopting the bi-linear Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Roshanak Zakizadeh , Michele Sasdelli , Yu Qian , Eduard Vazquez

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging technology is commonly used to provide 24-hour all-weather earth observation. However, it still has some drawbacks in SAR target classification, especially in fine-grained classification of aircraft:…

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