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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

The Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) is challenging because the subtle inter-class variations are difficult to be captured. One notable research line uses the Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) layer to learn powerful representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Yue Song , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

Fine-grained image classification has emerged as a significant challenge because objects in such images have small inter-class visual differences but with large variations in pose, lighting, and viewpoints, etc. Most existing work focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

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

Unsupervised learning technology has caught up with or even surpassed supervised learning technology in general object classification (GOC) and person re-identification (re-ID). However, it is found that the unsupervised learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiabao Wang , Yang Li , Xiu-Shen Wei , Hang Li , Zhuang Miao , Rui Zhang

Despite great strides made on fine-grained visual classification (FGVC), current methods are still heavily reliant on fully-supervised paradigms where ample expert labels are called for. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) techniques, acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Yi-Zhe Song , Jun Guo

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

We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system for fine-grained image classification, called a mixture of DCNNs (MixDCNN). The fine-grained image classification problem is characterised by large intra-class variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 ZongYuan Ge , Alex Bewley , Christopher McCool , Ben Upcroft , Peter Corke , Conrad Sanderson

This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Subhransu Maji , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala , Matthew Blaschko , Andrea Vedaldi

Fine-grained few-shot recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for novel categories.The network tends to overfit and does not generalize well to unseen classes due to insufficient training data. Many methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Mingzhen Huang , ShahRukh Athar , Dimitris Samaras

In this paper we exploit Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) to increase the amount of training data to improve the performance of Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). This problem has not been investigated in the past in spite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Daniele Mugnai , Federico Pernici , Francesco Turchini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Fine-grained clustering is a practical yet challenging task, whose essence lies in capturing the subtle differences between instances of different classes. Such subtle differences can be easily disrupted by data augmentation or be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Xi Peng , Xiting Liu , Yunfan Li

The main requisite for fine-grained recognition task is to focus on subtle discriminative details that make the subordinate classes different from each other. We note that existing methods implicitly address this requirement and leave it to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Guolei Sun , Hisham Cholakkal , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Data is the foundation for the development of computer vision, and the establishment of datasets plays an important role in advancing the techniques of fine-grained visual categorization~(FGVC). In the existing FGVC datasets used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shuo Ye , Shiming Chen , Ruxin Wang , Tianxu Wu , Jiamiao Xu , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

While the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) problems have been greatly developed in the past years, the Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) problems have been understudied. FGVC aims at classifying objects from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zicheng Pan , Xiaohan Yu , Miaohua Zhang , Yongsheng Gao

Image classification has been one of the most popular tasks in Deep Learning, seeing an abundance of impressive implementations each year. However, there is a lot of criticism tied to promoting complex architectures that continuously push…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maria Lymperaiou , Konstantinos Thomas , Giorgos Stamou

In this paper, we address the problem of novel class discovery (NCD), which aims to cluster novel classes by leveraging knowledge from disjoint known classes. While recent advances have made significant progress in this area, existing NCD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinhang Wan , Jiyuan Liu , Qian Qu , Suyuan Liu , Chuyu Zhang , Fangdi Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Kunlun He

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an open-world problem that clusters unlabeled data by leveraging knowledge from partially labeled categories. A key challenge is that unlabeled data may contain both known and novel categories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

A major challenge in Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) is distinguishing various categories with high inter-class similarity by learning the feature that differentiate the details. Conventional cross entropy trained Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Runkai Zheng , Zhijia Yu , Yinqi Zhang , Chris Ding , Hei Victor Cheng , Li Liu

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