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Weakly Supervised Fine-Grained Image Classification via Guassian Mixture Model Oriented Discriminative Learning

1 Jun 2020CVPR 2020 6archive 2025-07-28

Zhihui Wang, Shijie Wang, Shuhui Yang, Haojie Li, Jianjun Li, Zezhou Li

Existing weakly supervised fine-grained image recognition (WFGIR) methods usually pick out the discriminative regions from the high-level feature maps directly. We discover that due to the operation of stacking local receptive filed, Convolutional Neural Network causes the discriminative region diffusion in high-level feature maps, which leads to inaccurate discriminative region localization. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Discriminative Feature-oriented Gaussian Mixture Model (DF-GMM), to address the problem of discriminative region diffusion and find better fine-grained details. Specifically, DF-GMM consists of 1) a low-rank representation mechanism (LRM), which learns a set of low-rank discriminative bases by Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in high-level semantic feature maps to improve discriminative ability of feature representation, 2) a low-rank representation reorganization mechanism (LR ^2 M) which resumes the space information corresponding to low-rank discriminative bases to reconstruct the low-rank feature maps. It alleviates the discriminative region diffusion problem and locate discriminative regions more precisely. Extensive experiments verify that DF-GMM yields the best performance under the same settings with the most competitive approaches, in CUB-Bird, Stanford-Cars datasets, and FGVC Aircraft.

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Fine-Grained Image ClassificationFine-Grained Image RecognitionGeneral ClassificationImage Classificationimage-classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Fine-Grained Image Classification FGVC Aircraft DF-GMM Accuracy 93.8% #17 of 57 Archive leaderboard report
Fine-Grained Image Classification Stanford Cars DF-GMM Accuracy 94.8% #31 of 83 Archive leaderboard report

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