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Grafit: Learning Fine-grained Image Representations With Coarse Labels

Hugo Touvron, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Matthijs Douze, Matthieu Cord, Hervรฉ Jรฉgou ยท 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ยท 2020

This paper tackles the problem of learning a finer representation than the one provided by training labels. This enables fine-grained category retrieval of images in a collection annotated with coarse labels only. Our network is learned with a nearest-neighbor classifier objective, and an instance loss inspired by self-supervised learning. By jointly leveraging the coarse labels and the underlying fine-grained latent space, it significantly improves the accuracy of category-level retrieval methods. Our strategy outperforms all competing methods for retrieving or classifying images at a finer granularity than that available at train time. It also improves the accuracy for transfer learning tasks to fine-grained datasets, thereby establishing the new state of the art on five public benchmarks, like iNaturalist-2018.

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