Leveraging Habitat Information for Fine-grained Bird Identification

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Tin, Chen, Peijie, Nguyen, Anh Totti
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author Nguyen, Tin
Chen, Peijie
Nguyen, Anh Totti
author_facet Nguyen, Tin
Chen, Peijie
Nguyen, Anh Totti
contents Traditional bird classifiers mostly rely on the visual characteristics of birds. Some prior works even train classifiers to be invariant to the background, completely discarding the living environment of birds. Instead, we are the first to explore integrating habitat information, one of the four major cues for identifying birds by ornithologists, into modern bird classifiers. We focus on two leading model types: (1) CNNs and ViTs trained on the downstream bird datasets; and (2) original, multi-modal CLIP. Training CNNs and ViTs with habitat-augmented data results in an improvement of up to +0.83 and +0.23 points on NABirds and CUB-200, respectively. Similarly, adding habitat descriptors to the prompts for CLIP yields a substantial accuracy boost of up to +0.99 and +1.1 points on NABirds and CUB-200, respectively. We find consistent accuracy improvement after integrating habitat features into the image augmentation process and into the textual descriptors of vision-language CLIP classifiers. Code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/reasoning-8B7E/.
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spellingShingle Leveraging Habitat Information for Fine-grained Bird Identification
Nguyen, Tin
Chen, Peijie
Nguyen, Anh Totti
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Traditional bird classifiers mostly rely on the visual characteristics of birds. Some prior works even train classifiers to be invariant to the background, completely discarding the living environment of birds. Instead, we are the first to explore integrating habitat information, one of the four major cues for identifying birds by ornithologists, into modern bird classifiers. We focus on two leading model types: (1) CNNs and ViTs trained on the downstream bird datasets; and (2) original, multi-modal CLIP. Training CNNs and ViTs with habitat-augmented data results in an improvement of up to +0.83 and +0.23 points on NABirds and CUB-200, respectively. Similarly, adding habitat descriptors to the prompts for CLIP yields a substantial accuracy boost of up to +0.99 and +1.1 points on NABirds and CUB-200, respectively. We find consistent accuracy improvement after integrating habitat features into the image augmentation process and into the textual descriptors of vision-language CLIP classifiers. Code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/reasoning-8B7E/.
title Leveraging Habitat Information for Fine-grained Bird Identification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14999