Title
Birdsnap: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Visual Categorization of Birds
Abstract
We address the problem of large-scale fine-grained visual categorization, describing new methods we have used to produce an online field guide to 500 North American bird species. We focus on the challenges raised when such a system is asked to distinguish between highly similar species of birds. First, we introduce \"one-vs-most classifiers.\" By eliminating highly similar species during training, these classifiers achieve more accurate and intuitive results than common one-vs-all classifiers. Second, we show how to estimate spatio-temporal class priors from observations that are sampled at irregular and biased locations. We show how these priors can be used to significantly improve performance. We then show state-of-the-art recognition performance on a new, large dataset that we make publicly available. These recognition methods are integrated into the online field guide, which is also publicly available.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CVPR.2014.259
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
image classification,North American bird species,birdsnap,large-scale fine-grained visual categorization,one-vs-most classifiers,recognition performance,spatio-temporal class estimation,Fine-grained visual categorization,birds,large-scale classification,recognition,species identification
Computer vision,Categorization,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Species identification,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Prior probability,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
57
1.55
References 
Authors
20
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Berg1571.55
Jiongxin Liu21586.34
Seung Woo Lee3571.55
Michelle L. Alexander4571.55
David W. Jacobs54599348.03
Peter N. Belhumeur6122421001.27