Pairwise Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Abhimanyu Dubey, Otkrist Gupta, Pei Guo, Ramesh Raskar, Ryan Farrell, Nikhil Naik; Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 70-86

Abstract


Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) datasets contain small sample sizes, along with significant intra-class variation and inter-class similarity. While prior work has addressed intra-class variation using localization and segmentation techniques, inter-class similarity may also affect feature learning and reduce classification performance. In this work, we address this problem using a novel optimization procedure for the end-to-end neural network training on FGVC tasks. Our procedure, called Pairwise Confusion (PC) reduces overfitting by intentionally introducing confusion in the activations. With PC regularization, we obtain state-of-the-art performance on six of the most widely-used FGVC datasets and demonstrate improved localization ability. PC is easy to implement, does not need excessive hyperparameter tuning during training, and does not add significant overhead during test time.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Dubey_2018_ECCV,
author = {Dubey, Abhimanyu and Gupta, Otkrist and Guo, Pei and Raskar, Ramesh and Farrell, Ryan and Naik, Nikhil},
title = {Pairwise Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}