Title
Attribute-Aware Attention Model for Fine-grained Representation Learning.
Abstract
How to learn a discriminative fine-grained representation is a key point in many computer vision applications, such as person re-identification, fine-grained classification, fine-grained image retrieval, etc. Most of the previous methods focus on learning metrics or ensemble to derive better global representation, which are usually lack of local information. Based on the considerations above, we propose a novel Attribute-Aware Attention Model ($A^3M$), which can learn local attribute representation and global category representation simultaneously in an end-to-end manner. The proposed model contains two attention models: attribute-guided attention module uses attribute information to help select category features in different regions, at the same time, category-guided attention module selects local features of different attributes with the help of category cues. Through this attribute-category reciprocal process, local and global features benefit from each other. Finally, the resulting feature contains more intrinsic information for image recognition instead of the noisy and irrelevant features. Extensive experiments conducted on Market-1501, CompCars, CUB-200-2011 and CARS196 demonstrate the effectiveness of our $A^3M$.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3240508.3240550
MM '18: ACM Multimedia Conference Seoul Republic of Korea October, 2018
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Attribute-Aware Attention, Fine-grained recognition, Deep learning
Journal
978-1-4503-5665-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.54
33
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Han15511.16
Jianyuan Guo2212.10
Zhang, C.31105.55
Mingjian Zhu4150.89