Title
Semantic feature augmentation for fine-grained visual categorization with few-sample training
Abstract
ABSTRACTSmall data challenges have emerged in many learning problems, since the success of deep neural networks often relies on the availability of a huge number of labeled data that is expensive to collect. We explore a highly challenging task, few-sample training, which uses a small number of labeled images of each category and corresponding textual descriptions to train a model for fine-grained visual categorization. In order to tackle overfitting caused by small data, in this paper, we propose two novel feature augmentation approaches, Semantic Gate Feature Augmentation (SGFA) and Semantic Boundary Feature Augmentation (SBFA). Instead of generating a new image instance, we propose to directly synthesize instance features by leveraging semantic information, and its main novelties are: (1) The SGFA method is proposed to reduce the overfitting of small data by adding random noise to different regions of the image's feature maps through a gating mechanism. (2) The SBFA approach is proposed to optimize the decision boundary of the classifier. Technically, the decision boundary of the image feature is estimated through the assistance of semantic information, and then feature augmentation is performed by sampling in this region. Experiments in fine-grained visual categorization benchmark demonstrate that our proposed approach can significantly improve the categorization performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3444685.3446264
MM
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Guan101.35
Yang Yang21960104.48
Zheng Wang352.24
Jingjing Li459744.26