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Attention Convolutional Binary Neural Tree for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

25 Sep 2019CVPR 2020 6arXiv:1909.11378archive 2025-07-28

Ruyi Ji, Longyin Wen, Libo Zhang, Dawei Du, Yanjun Wu, Chen Zhao, Xianglong Liu, Feiyue Huang

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is an important but challenging task due to high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances caused by deformation, occlusion, illumination, etc. An attention convolutional binary neural tree architecture is presented to address those problems for weakly supervised FGVC. Specifically, we incorporate convolutional operations along edges of the tree structure, and use the routing functions in each node to determine the root-to-leaf computational paths within the tree. The final decision is computed as the summation of the predictions from leaf nodes. The deep convolutional operations learn to capture the representations of objects, and the tree structure characterizes the coarse-to-fine hierarchical feature learning process. In addition, we use the attention transformer module to enforce the network to capture discriminative features. The negative log-likelihood loss is used to train the entire network in an end-to-end fashion by SGD with back-propagation. Several experiments on the CUB-200-2011, Stanford Cars and Aircraft datasets demonstrate that the proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-arts.

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Fine-Grained Image ClassificationFine-Grained Visual Categorization

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Fine-Grained Image Classification CUB-200-2011 ACNet Accuracy 88.1% #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Fine-Grained Image Classification FGVC Aircraft ACNet Accuracy 92.4% #42 of 57 Archive leaderboard report
Fine-Grained Image Classification Stanford Cars ACNet Accuracy 94.6% #39 of 83 Archive leaderboard report

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Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerReLUResidual ConnectionSGDSoftmaxTransformer

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