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	Author	Yaxing Wang; Chenshen Wu; Luis Herranz; Joost Van de Weijer; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Transferring GANs: generating images from limited data			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	15th European Conference on Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	11210	Issue		Pages	220-236
	Keywords	Generative adversarial networks; Transfer learning; Domain adaptation; Image generation
	Abstract	ransferring knowledge of pre-trained networks to new domains by means of fine-tuning is a widely used practice for applications based on discriminative models. To the best of our knowledge this practice has not been studied within the context of generative deep networks. Therefore, we study domain adaptation applied to image generation with generative adversarial networks. We evaluate several aspects of domain adaptation, including the impact of target domain size, the relative distance between source and target domain, and the initialization of conditional GANs. Our results show that using knowledge from pre-trained networks can shorten the convergence time and can significantly improve the quality of the generated images, especially when target data is limited. We show that these conclusions can also be drawn for conditional GANs even when the pre-trained model was trained without conditioning. Our results also suggest that density is more important than diversity and a dataset with one or few densely sampled classes is a better source model than more diverse datasets such as ImageNet or Places.
	Address	Munich; September 2018
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECCV
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WWH2018a			Serial	3130
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	Author	Yaxing Wang; Joost Van de Weijer; Luis Herranz
	Title	Mix and match networks: encoder-decoder alignment for zero-pair image translation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	5467 - 5476
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	Abstract	We address the problem of image translation between domains or modalities for which no direct paired data is available (i.e. zero-pair translation). We propose mix and match networks, based on multiple encoders and decoders aligned in such a way that other encoder-decoder pairs can be composed at test time to perform unseen image translation tasks between domains or modalities for which explicit paired samples were not seen during training. We study the impact of autoencoders, side information and losses in improving the alignment and transferability of trained pairwise translation models to unseen translations. We show our approach is scalable and can perform colorization and style transfer between unseen combinations of domains. We evaluate our system in a challenging cross-modal setting where semantic segmentation is estimated from depth images, without explicit access to any depth-semantic segmentation training pairs. Our model outperforms baselines based on pix2pix and CycleGAN models.
	Address	Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WWH2018b			Serial	3131
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	Author	Muhammad Anwer Rao; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Matthieu Molinier; Jorma Laaksonen
	Title	Binary patterns encoded convolutional neural networks for texture recognition and remote sensing scene classification			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	Abbreviated Journal	ISPRS J
	Volume	138	Issue		Pages	74-85
	Keywords	Remote sensing; Deep learning; Scene classification; Local Binary Patterns; Texture analysis
	Abstract	Designing discriminative powerful texture features robust to realistic imaging conditions is a challenging computer vision problem with many applications, including material recognition and analysis of satellite or aerial imagery. In the past, most texture description approaches were based on dense orderless statistical distribution of local features. However, most recent approaches to texture recognition and remote sensing scene classification are based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The de facto practice when learning these CNN models is to use RGB patches as input with training performed on large amounts of labeled data (ImageNet). In this paper, we show that Local Binary Patterns (LBP) encoded CNN models, codenamed TEX-Nets, trained using mapped coded images with explicit LBP based texture information provide complementary information to the standard RGB deep models. Additionally, two deep architectures, namely early and late fusion, are investigated to combine the texture and color information. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate Binary Patterns encoded CNNs and different deep network fusion architectures for texture recognition and remote sensing scene classification. We perform comprehensive experiments on four texture recognition datasets and four remote sensing scene classification benchmarks: UC-Merced with 21 scene categories, WHU-RS19 with 19 scene classes, RSSCN7 with 7 categories and the recently introduced large scale aerial image dataset (AID) with 30 aerial scene types. We demonstrate that TEX-Nets provide complementary information to standard RGB deep model of the same network architecture. Our late fusion TEX-Net architecture always improves the overall performance compared to the standard RGB network on both recognition problems. Furthermore, our final combination leads to consistent improvement over the state-of-the-art for remote sensing scene
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RKW2018			Serial	3158
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	Author	Xialei Liu; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov
	Title	Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Crowd Counting by Learning to Rank			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	7661 - 7669
	Keywords	Task analysis; Training; Computer vision; Visualization; Estimation; Head; Context modeling
	Abstract	We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene image is guaranteed to contain the same number or fewer persons than the super-image. This allows us to address the problem of limited size of existing datasets for crowd counting. We collect two crowd scene datasets from Google using keyword searches and queryby-example image retrieval, respectively. We demonstrate how to efficiently learn from these unlabeled datasets by incorporating learning-to-rank in a multi-task network which simultaneously ranks images and estimates crowd density maps. Experiments on two of the most challenging crowd counting datasets show that our approach obtains state-ofthe-art results.
	Address	Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LWB2018			Serial	3159
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	Author	Xialei Liu; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov
	Title	Exploiting Unlabeled Data in CNNs by Self-Supervised Learning to Rank			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	41	Issue	8	Pages	1862-1878
	Keywords	Task analysis;Training;Image quality;Visualization;Uncertainty;Labeling;Neural networks;Learning from rankings;image quality assessment;crowd counting;active learning
	Abstract	For many applications the collection of labeled data is expensive laborious. Exploitation of unlabeled data during training is thus a long pursued objective of machine learning. Self-supervised learning addresses this by positing an auxiliary task (different, but related to the supervised task) for which data is abundantly available. In this paper, we show how ranking can be used as a proxy task for some regression problems. As another contribution, we propose an efficient backpropagation technique for Siamese networks which prevents the redundant computation introduced by the multi-branch network architecture. We apply our framework to two regression problems: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Crowd Counting. For both we show how to automatically generate ranked image sets from unlabeled data. Our results show that networks trained to regress to the ground truth targets for labeled data and to simultaneously learn to rank unlabeled data obtain significantly better, state-of-the-art results for both IQA and crowd counting. In addition, we show that measuring network uncertainty on the self-supervised proxy task is a good measure of informativeness of unlabeled data. This can be used to drive an algorithm for active learning and we show that this reduces labeling effort by up to 50 percent.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	LWB2019			Serial	3267
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	Author	Yaxing Wang; Luis Herranz; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Mix and match networks: multi-domain alignment for unpaired image-to-image translation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	128	Issue		Pages	2849–2872
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	Abstract	This paper addresses the problem of inferring unseen cross-modal image-to-image translations between multiple modalities. We assume that only some of the pairwise translations have been seen (i.e. trained) and infer the remaining unseen translations (where training pairs are not available). We propose mix and match networks, an approach where multiple encoders and decoders are aligned in such a way that the desired translation can be obtained by simply cascading the source encoder and the target decoder, even when they have not interacted during the training stage (i.e. unseen). The main challenge lies in the alignment of the latent representations at the bottlenecks of encoder-decoder pairs. We propose an architecture with several tools to encourage alignment, including autoencoders and robust side information and latent consistency losses. We show the benefits of our approach in terms of effectiveness and scalability compared with other pairwise image-to-image translation approaches. We also propose zero-pair cross-modal image translation, a challenging setting where the objective is inferring semantic segmentation from depth (and vice-versa) without explicit segmentation-depth pairs, and only from two (disjoint) segmentation-RGB and depth-RGB training sets. We observe that a certain part of the shared information between unseen modalities might not be reachable, so we further propose a variant that leverages pseudo-pairs which allows us to exploit this shared information between the unseen modalities
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WHW2020			Serial	3424
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	Author	Aymen Azaza; Joost Van de Weijer; Ali Douik; Marc Masana
	Title	Context Proposals for Saliency Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Abbreviated Journal	CVIU
	Volume	174	Issue		Pages	1-11
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	Abstract	One of the fundamental properties of a salient object region is its contrast with the immediate context. The problem is that numerous object regions exist which potentially can all be salient. One way to prevent an exhaustive search over all object regions is by using object proposal algorithms. These return a limited set of regions which are most likely to contain an object. Several saliency estimation methods have used object proposals. However, they focus on the saliency of the proposal only, and the importance of its immediate context has not been evaluated. In this paper, we aim to improve salient object detection. Therefore, we extend object proposal methods with context proposals, which allow to incorporate the immediate context in the saliency computation. We propose several saliency features which are computed from the context proposals. In the experiments, we evaluate five object proposal methods for the task of saliency segmentation, and find that Multiscale Combinatorial Grouping outperforms the others. Furthermore, experiments show that the proposed context features improve performance, and that our method matches results on the FT datasets and obtains competitive results on three other datasets (PASCAL-S, MSRA-B and ECSSD).
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AWD2018			Serial	3241
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	Author	Rada Deeb; Damien Muselet; Mathieu Hebert; Alain Tremeau; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	3D color charts for camera spectral sensitivity estimation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	28th British Machine Vision Conference	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Estimating spectral data such as camera sensor responses or illuminant spectral power distribution from raw RGB camera outputs is crucial in many computer vision applications. Usually, 2D color charts with various patches of known spectral reflectance are used as reference for such purpose. Deducing n-D spectral data (n»3) from 3D RGB inputs is an ill-posed problem that requires a high number of inputs. Unfortunately, most of the natural color surfaces have spectral reflectances that are well described by low-dimensional linear models, i.e. each spectral reflectance can be approximated by a weighted sum of the others. It has been shown that adding patches to color charts does not help in practice, because the information they add is redundant with the information provided by the first set of patches. In this paper, we propose to use spectral data of higher dimensionality by using 3D color charts that create inter-reflections between the surfaces. These inter-reflections produce multiplications between natural spectral curves and so provide non-linear spectral curves. We show that such data provide enough information for accurate spectral data estimation.
	Address	London; September 2017
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	BMVC
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DMH2017b			Serial	3037
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	Author	Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Joaquin Salas
	Title	A Social-Aware Assistant to support individuals with visual impairments during social interaction: A systematic requirements analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	International Journal of Human-Computer Studies	Abbreviated Journal	IJHC
	Volume	122	Issue		Pages	50-60
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	Abstract	Visual impairment affects the normal course of activities in everyday life including mobility, education, employment, and social interaction. Most of the existing technical solutions devoted to empowering the visually impaired people are in the areas of navigation (obstacle avoidance), access to printed information and object recognition. Less effort has been dedicated so far in developing solutions to support social interactions. In this paper, we introduce a Social-Aware Assistant (SAA) that provides visually impaired people with cues to enhance their face-to-face conversations. The system consists of a perceptive component (represented by smartglasses with an embedded video camera) and a feedback component (represented by a haptic belt). When the vision system detects a head nodding, the belt vibrates, thus suggesting the user to replicate (mirror) the gesture. In our experiments, sighted persons interacted with blind people wearing the SAA. We instructed the former to mirror the noddings according to the vibratory signal, while the latter interacted naturally. After the face-to-face conversation, the participants had an interview to express their experience regarding the use of this new technological assistant. With the data collected during the experiment, we have assessed quantitatively and qualitatively the device usefulness and user satisfaction.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MTR2019			Serial	3142
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	Author	Marco Buzzelli; Joost Van de Weijer; Raimondo Schettini
	Title	Learning Illuminant Estimation from Object Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	25th International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	3234 - 3238
	Keywords	Illuminant estimation; computational color constancy; semi-supervised learning; deep learning; convolutional neural networks
	Abstract	In this paper we present a deep learning method to estimate the illuminant of an image. Our model is not trained with illuminant annotations, but with the objective of improving performance on an auxiliary task such as object recognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of a deep learning architecture for illuminant estimation that is trained without ground truth illuminants. We evaluate our solution on standard datasets for color constancy, and compare it with state of the art methods. Our proposal is shown to outperform most deep learning methods in a cross-dataset evaluation setup, and to present competitive results in a comparison with parametric solutions.
	Address	Athens; Greece; October 2018
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BWS2018			Serial	3157
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	Author	Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Davide Modolo; Vittorio Ferrari
	Title	Objects as context for detecting their semantic parts			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	6907 - 6916
	Keywords	Proposals; Semantics; Wheels; Automobiles; Context modeling; Task analysis; Object detection
	Abstract	We present a semantic part detection approach that effectively leverages object information. We use the object appearance and its class as indicators of what parts to expect. We also model the expected relative location of parts inside the objects based on their appearance. We achieve this with a new network module, called OffsetNet, that efficiently predicts a variable number of part locations within a given object. Our model incorporates all these cues to detect parts in the context of their objects. This leads to considerably higher performance for the challenging task of part detection compared to using part appearance alone (+5 mAP on the PASCAL-Part dataset). We also compare to other part detection methods on both PASCAL-Part and CUB200-2011 datasets.
	Address	Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
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	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GMF2018			Serial	3229
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	Author	Lu Yu; Vacit Oguz Yazici; Xialei Liu; Joost Van de Weijer; Yongmei Cheng; Arnau Ramisa
	Title	Learning Metrics from Teachers: Compact Networks for Image Embedding			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2907-2916
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	Abstract	Metric learning networks are used to compute image embeddings, which are widely used in many applications such as image retrieval and face recognition. In this paper, we propose to use network distillation to efficiently compute image embeddings with small networks. Network distillation has been successfully applied to improve image classification, but has hardly been explored for metric learning. To do so, we propose two new loss functions that model the communication of a deep teacher network to a small student network. We evaluate our system in several datasets, including CUB-200-2011, Cars-196, Stanford Online Products and show that embeddings computed using small student networks perform significantly better than those computed using standard networks of similar size. Results on a very compact network (MobileNet-0.25), which can be used on mobile devices, show that the proposed method can greatly improve Recall@1 results from 27.5% to 44.6%. Furthermore, we investigate various aspects of distillation for embeddings, including hint and attention layers, semisupervised learning and cross quality distillation.
	Address	Long beach; California; june 2019
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ YYL2019			Serial	3281
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	Author	Aitor Alvarez-Gila; Adrian Galdran; Estibaliz Garrote; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Self-supervised blur detection from synthetically blurred scenes			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Image and Vision Computing	Abbreviated Journal	IMAVIS
	Volume	92	Issue		Pages	103804
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	Abstract	Blur detection aims at segmenting the blurred areas of a given image. Recent deep learning-based methods approach this problem by learning an end-to-end mapping between the blurred input and a binary mask representing the localization of its blurred areas. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of such deep models is limited due to the scarcity of datasets annotated in terms of blur segmentation, as blur annotation is labor intensive. In this work, we bypass the need for such annotated datasets for end-to-end learning, and instead rely on object proposals and a model for blur generation in order to produce a dataset of synthetically blurred images. This allows us to perform self-supervised learning over the generated image and ground truth blur mask pairs using CNNs, defining a framework that can be employed in purely self-supervised, weakly supervised or semi-supervised configurations. Interestingly, experimental results of such setups over the largest blur segmentation datasets available show that this approach achieves state of the art results in blur segmentation, even without ever observing any real blurred image.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AGG2019			Serial	3301
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	Author	Idoia Ruiz; Bogdan Raducanu; Rakesh Mehta; Jaume Amores
	Title	Optimizing speed/accuracy trade-off for person re-identification via knowledge distillation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	EAAI
	Volume	87	Issue		Pages	103309
	Keywords	Person re-identification; Network distillation; Image retrieval; Model compression; Surveillance
	Abstract	Finding a person across a camera network plays an important role in video surveillance. For a real-world person re-identification application, in order to guarantee an optimal time response, it is crucial to find the balance between accuracy and speed. We analyse this trade-off, comparing a classical method, that comprises hand-crafted feature description and metric learning, in particular, LOMO and XQDA, to deep learning based techniques, using image classification networks, ResNet and MobileNets. Additionally, we propose and analyse network distillation as a learning strategy to reduce the computational cost of the deep learning approach at test time. We evaluate both methods on the Market-1501 and DukeMTMC-reID large-scale datasets, showing that distillation helps reducing the computational cost at inference time while even increasing the accuracy performance.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RRM2020			Serial	3401
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	Author	Carola Figueroa Flores; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Joost Van de Weijer; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Saliency for fine-grained object recognition in domains with scarce training data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	94	Issue		Pages	62-73
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	Abstract	This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an existing CNN architecture which is used to modulate the standard bottom-up visual features from the original image input, acting as an attentional mechanism that guides the feature extraction process. The main aim of the proposed approach is to enable the effective training of a fine-grained recognition model with limited training samples and to improve the performance on the task, thereby alleviating the need to annotate a large dataset. The vast majority of saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline. Our proposed pipeline allows to evaluate saliency methods for the high-level task of object recognition. We perform extensive experiments on various fine-grained datasets (Flowers, Birds, Cars, and Dogs) under different conditions and show that saliency can considerably improve the network’s performance, especially for the case of scarce training data. Furthermore, our experiments show that saliency methods that obtain improved saliency maps (as measured by traditional saliency benchmarks) also translate to saliency methods that yield improved performance gains when applied in an object recognition pipeline.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FGW2019			Serial	3264
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