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We propose a novel fine-grained cross-view localization method that estimates the 3 Degrees of Freedom pose of a ground-level image in an aerial image of the surroundings by matching fine-grained features between the two images. The pose is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zimin Xia , Alexandre Alahi

Successful fine-grained image classification methods learn subtle details between visually similar (sub-)classes, but the problem becomes significantly more challenging if the details are missing due to low resolution. Encouraged by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Dingding Cai , Ke Chen , Yanlin Qian , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

In this paper, we tackle the problem of visual categorization of dog breeds, which is a surprisingly challenging task due to simultaneously present low interclass distances and high intra-class variances. Our approach combines several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Christoph Göring , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Joachim Denzler

The crux of resolving fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) lies in capturing discriminative and class-specific cues that correspond to subtle visual characteristics. Recently, frequency decomposition/transform based approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qin Xu , Lili Zhu , Xiaoxia Cheng , Bo Jiang

Small inter-class and large intra-class variations are the main challenges in fine-grained visual classification. Objects from different classes share visually similar structures and objects in the same class can have different poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Michael Gormish , Massoud Pedram

Deriving from the gradient vector of a generative model of local features, Fisher vector coding (FVC) has been identified as an effective coding method for image classification. Most, if not all, % FVC implementations employ the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Lei Wang , Anton van den Hengel , Chao Wang

Long-term visual localization is the problem of estimating the camera pose of a given query image in a scene whose appearance changes over time. It is an important problem in practice, for example, encountered in autonomous driving. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Måns Larsson , Erik Stenborg , Carl Toft , Lars Hammarstrand , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl

Part-based approaches for fine-grained recognition do not show the expected performance gain over global methods, although explicitly focusing on small details that are relevant for distinguishing highly similar classes. We assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a promising approach for addressing issues related to model compression, security privacy, and transmission restrictions. Although the existing methods exploiting DFKD have achieved inspiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Jun Wang

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 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

Fine-grained image classification remains challenging due to the large intra-class variance and small inter-class variance. Since the subtle visual differences are only in local regions of discriminative parts among subcategories, part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Runsheng Zhang , jian zhang , Yaping Huang , Qi Zou

Simi-Supervised Recognition Challenge-FGVC7 is a challenging fine-grained recognition competition. One of the difficulties of this competition is how to use unlabeled data. We adopted pseudo-tag data mining to increase the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Cheng Cui , Zhi Ye , Yangxi Li , Xinjian Li , Min Yang , Kai Wei , Bing Dai , Yanmei Zhao , Zhongji Liu , Rong Pang

Learning feature representation from discriminative local regions plays a key role in fine-grained visual classification. Employing attention mechanisms to extract part features has become a trend. However, there are two major limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jianwei Song , Ruoyu Yang

Fine-grained image recognition is a challenging computer vision problem, due to the small inter-class variations caused by highly similar subordinate categories, and the large intra-class variations in poses, scales and rotations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xiu-Shen Wei , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu

Learning discriminative representations for subtle localized details plays a significant role in Fine-grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Compared to previous attention-based works, our work does not explicitly define or localize the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ranran Huang , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Fine-grained classification often requires recognizing specific object parts, such as beak shape and wing patterns for birds. Encouraging a fine-grained classification model to first detect such parts and then using them to infer the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Robert van der Klis , Stephan Alaniz , Massimiliano Mancini , Cassio F. Dantas , Dino Ienco , Zeynep Akata , Diego Marcos

Fine-grained category discovery using only coarse-grained supervision is a cost-effective yet challenging task. Previous training methods focus on aligning query samples with positive samples and distancing them from negatives. They often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chang Tian , Matthew B. Blaschko , Wenpeng Yin , Mingzhe Xing , Yinliang Yue , Marie-Francine Moens

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) datasets contain small sample sizes, along with significant intra-class variation and inter-class similarity. While prior work has addressed intra-class variation using localization and segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Abhimanyu Dubey , Otkrist Gupta , Pei Guo , Ramesh Raskar , Ryan Farrell , Nikhil Naik

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) remains highly sensitive to geometric variability, where objects appear under arbitrary orientations, scales, and perspective distortions. While equivariant architectures address this issue, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Johann Schmidt , Sebastian Stober