Robust Saliency-Aware Distillation for Few-shot Fine-grained Visual Recognition

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Main Authors: Liu, Haiqi, Chen, C. L. Philip, Gong, Xinrong, Zhang, Tong
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author Liu, Haiqi
Chen, C. L. Philip
Gong, Xinrong
Zhang, Tong
author_facet Liu, Haiqi
Chen, C. L. Philip
Gong, Xinrong
Zhang, Tong
contents Recognizing novel sub-categories with scarce samples is an essential and challenging research topic in computer vision. Existing literature addresses this challenge by employing local-based representation approaches, which may not sufficiently facilitate meaningful object-specific semantic understanding, leading to a reliance on apparent background correlations. Moreover, they primarily rely on high-dimensional local descriptors to construct complex embedding space, potentially limiting the generalization. To address the above challenges, this article proposes a novel model, Robust Saliency-aware Distillation (RSaD), for few-shot fine-grained visual recognition. RSaD introduces additional saliency-aware supervision via saliency detection to guide the model toward focusing on the intrinsic discriminative regions. Specifically, RSaD utilizes the saliency detection model to emphasize the critical regions of each sub-category, providing additional object-specific information for fine-grained prediction. RSaD transfers such information with two symmetric branches in a mutual learning paradigm. Furthermore, RSaD exploits inter-regional relationships to enhance the informativeness of the representation and subsequently summarize the highlighted details into contextual embeddings to facilitate the effective transfer, enabling quick generalization to novel sub-categories. The proposed approach is empirically evaluated on three widely used benchmarks, demonstrating its superior performance.
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spellingShingle Robust Saliency-Aware Distillation for Few-shot Fine-grained Visual Recognition
Liu, Haiqi
Chen, C. L. Philip
Gong, Xinrong
Zhang, Tong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recognizing novel sub-categories with scarce samples is an essential and challenging research topic in computer vision. Existing literature addresses this challenge by employing local-based representation approaches, which may not sufficiently facilitate meaningful object-specific semantic understanding, leading to a reliance on apparent background correlations. Moreover, they primarily rely on high-dimensional local descriptors to construct complex embedding space, potentially limiting the generalization. To address the above challenges, this article proposes a novel model, Robust Saliency-aware Distillation (RSaD), for few-shot fine-grained visual recognition. RSaD introduces additional saliency-aware supervision via saliency detection to guide the model toward focusing on the intrinsic discriminative regions. Specifically, RSaD utilizes the saliency detection model to emphasize the critical regions of each sub-category, providing additional object-specific information for fine-grained prediction. RSaD transfers such information with two symmetric branches in a mutual learning paradigm. Furthermore, RSaD exploits inter-regional relationships to enhance the informativeness of the representation and subsequently summarize the highlighted details into contextual embeddings to facilitate the effective transfer, enabling quick generalization to novel sub-categories. The proposed approach is empirically evaluated on three widely used benchmarks, demonstrating its superior performance.
title Robust Saliency-Aware Distillation for Few-shot Fine-grained Visual Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07180