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Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is a challenging task due to similar visual appearances between various species. Previous studies always implicitly assume that the training and test data have the same underlying distributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuo Ye , Shujian Yu , Wenjin Hou , Yu Wang , Xinge You

Fine-Grained Visual Classification(FGVC) is the task that requires recognizing the objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories of a super-category. Recent state-of-the-art methods usually design sophisticated learning pipelines to…

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Few-shot fine-grained visual categorization (FS-FGVC) focuses on identifying various subcategories within a common superclass given just one or few support examples. Most existing methods aim to boost classification accuracy by enriching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhiwen Yang , Jinglin Xu , Yuxin Pen

A well-designed fine-grained categorization system usually has three contradictory requirements: accuracy (the ability to identify objects among subordinate categories); interpretability (the ability to provide human-understandable…

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Computer vision based fine-grained recognition has received great attention in recent years. Existing works focus on discriminative part localization and feature learning. In this paper, to improve the performance of fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

Fine-Grained Image Classification (FGIC) remains a complex task in computer vision, as it requires models to distinguish between categories with subtle localized visual differences. Well-studied CNN-based models, while strong in local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Boris Kriuk , Simranjit Kaur Gill , Shoaib Aslam , Amir Fakhrutdinov

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

Pose variation and subtle differences in appearance are key challenges to fine-grained classification. While deep networks have markedly improved general recognition, many approaches to fine-grained recognition rely on anchoring networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Ning Zhang , Evan Shelhamer , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

Fine-grained categorization can benefit from part-based features which reveal subtle visual differences between object categories. Handcrafted features have been widely used for part detection and classification. Although a recent trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Ting Sun , Lin Sun , Dit-Yan Yeung

For the task of image classification, researchers work arduously to develop the next state-of-the-art (SOTA) model, each bench-marking their own performance against that of their predecessors and of their peers. Unfortunately, the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Matthew Gwilliam , Adam Teuscher , Connor Anderson , Ryan Farrell

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is challenging due in part to the fact that it is often difficult to acquire an enough number of training samples. To employ large models for FGVC without suffering from overfitting, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yabin Zhang , Hui Tang , Kui Jia

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

Extracting discriminative features plays a crucial role in the fine-grained visual classification task. Most of the existing methods focus on developing attention or augmentation mechanisms to achieve this goal. However, addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Few-shot fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to leverage limited data to enable models to discriminate subtly distinct categories. Recent works mostly finetuned the pre-trained visual language models to achieve performance gain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hongyu Guo , Xiangzhao Hao , Jiarui Guo , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Fine-grained recognition is challenging due to its subtle local inter-class differences versus large intra-class variations such as poses. A key to address this problem is to localize discriminative parts to extract pose-invariant features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Xiao Liu , Tian Xia , Jiang Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zhou , Yuanqing Lin

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

Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Semantic patterns of fine-grained objects are determined by subtle appearance difference of local parts, which thus inspires a number of part-based methods. However, due to uncontrollable object poses in images, distinctive details carried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xuhui Yang , Yaowei Wang , Ke Chen , Yong Xu , Yonghong Tian

Given a training dataset composed of images and corresponding category labels, deep convolutional neural networks show a strong ability in mining discriminative parts for image classification. However, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Weifeng Ge , Xiangru Lin , Yizhou Yu