Title
Refining deep convolutional features for improving fine-grained image recognition.
Abstract
Fine-grained image recognition, a computer vision task filled with challenges due to its imperceptible inter-class variance and large intra-class variance, has been drawing increasing attention. While manual annotation can be utilized to effectively enhance performance in this task, it is extremely time-consuming and expensive. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification. We propose a fine-grained image recognition framework by exploiting CNN as the raw feature extractor along with several effective methods including a feature encoding method, a feature weighting method, and a strategy to better incorporate information from multi-scale images to further improve recognition ability. Besides, we investigate two dimension reduction methods and successfully merge them to our framework to compact the final image representation. Based on the discriminative and compact framework, we achieved the state-of-the-art performance in terms of classification accuracy on several fine-grained image recognition benchmarks based on weekly supervision.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1186/s13640-017-0176-3
EURASIP J. Image and Video Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fine-grained image recognition,Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),Bag-of-visual-words,Feature weighting,Dimension reduction
Computer vision,Automatic image annotation,Pattern recognition,Feature detection (computer vision),Feature (computer vision),Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Image processing,Feature extraction,Feature (machine learning),Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2017
1
1687-5176
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
23
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weixia Zhang1372.79
Jia Yan2938.85
Wenxuan Shi373.67
Tianpeng Feng411.30
Dexiang Deng5335.66