Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 12, 121011(2020)

Bilinear Residual Attention Networks for Fine-Grained Image Classification

Yang Wang and Libo Liu*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Information Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, Ningxia 750021, China
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    Architecture of B-CNN model
    Schematic of bilinear feature combination
    Structure of residual unit
    Channel attention module
    Spatial attention module
    Residual attention structure of BRAN model
    Example of training data augmentation
    Visualization of different feature maps. (a) Original images; (b) B-CNN; (c) channel attention maps; (d) spatial attention maps
    • Table 1. Detailed statistics of three fine-grained image datasets

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      Table 1. Detailed statistics of three fine-grained image datasets

      DatasetClassTrainTestTotal
      CUB-200-20112005994579411788
      Stanford Dogs12012000858020580
      Stanford Cars1968144804116185
    • Table 2. Ablation experiment and analysis of proposed method on CUB-200-2011 dataset

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      Table 2. Ablation experiment and analysis of proposed method on CUB-200-2011 dataset

      ApproachBackboneAccuracy /%
      B-CNN(baseline)VGG-M+VGG-D84.1
      B-CNN(resnet×2)ResNet-34×285.0
      BRAN(cha. attention)ResNet-34×2 + channel attention86.2
      BRAN(spa. attention)ResNet-34×2 + spatial attention85.5
      BRAN(cha.& spa. attention)ResNet-34×2 + cha. & spa. attention87.2
    • Table 3. Comparison with weakly-supervised methods in terms of classification accuracy

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      Table 3. Comparison with weakly-supervised methods in terms of classification accuracy

      ApproachBackboneAccuracy /%
      Birds[9]Dogs[10]Cars[11]
      Two-level attention[22]VGG1977.9--
      NAC[23]VGG1981.0168.61-
      B-CNN[6]VGG-M+VGG-D84.1-91.3
      ST-CNN[24]Inception-v2×384.1--
      DVAN[25]VGG-16×379.081.587.1
      RA-CNN[26]VGG-19×385.387.392.5
      MA-CNN[19]VGG-19×386.5-92.8
      MAMC[27]ResNet-10186.585.293.0
      BRANResNet-34×287.289.292.5
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 19, 2019

    Accepted: Nov. 2, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 3, 2020

    The Author Email: Liu Libo (liulib@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.121011

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