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most citedThe Devil is in the Channels: Mutual-Channel Loss for Fine-Grained Image Classification

415 citations · 795 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cs.CV2026

FlexiGrad: Adaptive Gradient Modulation for Hierarchical Fine-Grained Classification

Zilu Zhou, Dongliang Chang, Junhan Chen +1

Many fine-grained recognition tasks contain hierarchical labels such as order, family and species. Although this supervision should be beneficial, jointly optimising all levels oft…

cs.CV2026

ConFusion: Continuous Fusion Space Learning for Fine-Grained Controllable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

Guo Yurong, He Yufei, Li Yonghao +3

Controllable infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary thermal and structural information with flexible region-aware modulation, producing fused images that ada…

cs.CV2026

Reversing the Flow: Generation-to-Understanding Synergy in Large Multimodal Models

Yujun Tong, Dongliang Chang, Zijin Yin +3

The long-standing goal of multimodal AI is to build unified models in which visual understanding and visual generation mutually enhance one another. Despite recent works such as BA…

cs.CV2026

IncreFA: Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model Attribution

Haotian Qin, Dongliang Chang, Yueying Gao +3

As AI generative models evolve at unprecedented speed, image attribution has become a moving target. New diffusion, adversarial and autoregressive generators appear almost monthly,…

cs.CV2026

Recolour What Matters: Region-Aware Colour Editing via Token-Level Diffusion

Yuqi Yang, Dongliang Chang, Yijia Ling +2

Colour is one of the most perceptually salient yet least controllable attributes in image generation. Although recent diffusion models can modify object colours from user instructi…

cs.CV2026

Seeing as Experts Do: A Knowledge-Augmented Agent for Open-Set Fine-Grained Visual Understanding

Junhan Chen, Zilu Zhou, Yujun Tong +3

Fine-grained visual understanding is shifting from static classification to knowledge-augmented reasoning, where models must justify as well as recognise. Existing approaches remai…

cs.CV2025

Controllable-Continuous Color Editing in Diffusion Model via Color Mapping

Yuqi Yang, Dongliang Chang, Yuanchen Fang +3

In recent years, text-driven image editing has made significant progress. However, due to the inherent ambiguity and discreteness of natural language, color editing still faces cha…

cs.CV2025

Towards Privacy-Preserving Fine-Grained Visual Classification via Hierarchical Learning from Label Proportions

Jinyi Chang, Dongliang Chang, Lei Chen +2

In recent years, Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) has achieved impressive recognition accuracy, despite minimal inter-class variations. However, existing methods heavily r…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Multimodal Conditional Information Bottleneck for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

Haotian Qin, Dongliang Chang, Yueying Gao +3

Although existing CLIP-based methods for detecting AI-generated images have achieved promising results, they are still limited by severe feature redundancy, which hinders their gen…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Toward Generalizable Forgery Detection and Reasoning

Yueying Gao, Dongliang Chang, Bingyao Yu +5

Accurate and interpretable detection of AI-generated images is essential for mitigating risks associated with AI misuse. However, the substantial domain gap among generative models…

cs.CV2024

M4Fog: A Global Multi-Regional, Multi-Modal, and Multi-Stage Dataset for Marine Fog Detection and Forecasting to Bridge Ocean and Atmosphere

Mengqiu Xu, Ming Wu, Kaixin Chen +11

Marine fog poses a significant hazard to global shipping, necessitating effective detection and forecasting to reduce economic losses. In recent years, several machine learning (ML…

cs.CV2023

DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$

Ruoyi Du, Dongliang Chang, Timothy Hospedales +2

High-resolution image generation with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has immense potential but, due to the enormous capital investment required for training, it is incr…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Bi-directional Feature Reconstruction Network for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Image Classification

Jijie Wu, Dongliang Chang, Aneeshan Sain +5

The main challenge for fine-grained few-shot image classification is to learn feature representations with higher inter-class and lower intra-class variations, with a mere few labe…

cs.CV2022

Multi-View Active Fine-Grained Recognition

Ruoyi Du, Wenqing Yu, Heqing Wang +4

As fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) being developed for decades, great works related have exposed a key direction -- finding discriminative local regions and revealing sub…

cs.CV2022★ 65 cited

Domain Generalization via Frequency-domain-based Feature Disentanglement and Interaction

Jingye Wang, Ruoyi Du, Dongliang Chang +2

Adaptation to out-of-distribution data is a meta-challenge for all statistical learning algorithms that strongly rely on the i.i.d. assumption. It leads to unavoidable labor costs…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Clue Me In: Semi-Supervised FGVC with Out-of-Distribution Data

Ruoyi Du, Dongliang Chang, Zhanyu Ma +2

Despite great strides made on fine-grained visual classification (FGVC), current methods are still heavily reliant on fully-supervised paradigms where ample expert labels are calle…

cs.CV2021

Making a Bird AI Expert Work for You and Me

Dongliang Chang, Kaiyue Pang, Ruoyi Du +3

As powerful as fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is, responding your query with a bird name of "Whip-poor-will" or "Mallard" probably does not make much sense. This however…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Fine-Grained Visual Classification via Simultaneously Learning of Multi-regional Multi-grained Features

Dongliang Chang, Yixiao Zheng, Zhanyu Ma +2

Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task that recognizes the sub-classes belonging to the same meta-class. Large inter-class similarity and intra-class variance is…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Grad-CAM guided channel-spatial attention module for fine-grained visual classification

Shuai Xu, Dongliang Chang, Jiyang Xie +1

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is becoming an important research field, due to its wide applications and the rapid development of computer vision technologies. The curre…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Progressive Co-Attention Network for Fine-grained Visual Classification

Tian Zhang, Dongliang Chang, Zhanyu Ma +1

Fine-grained visual classification aims to recognize images belonging to multiple sub-categories within a same category. It is a challenging task due to the inherently subtle varia…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Knowledge Transfer Based Fine-grained Visual Classification

Siqing Zhang, Ruoyi Du, Dongliang Chang +2

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to distinguish the sub-classes of the same category and its essential solution is to mine the subtle and discriminative regions. Conv…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

Your "Flamingo" is My "Bird": Fine-Grained, or Not

Dongliang Chang, Kaiyue Pang, Yixiao Zheng +3

Whether what you see in Figure 1 is a "flamingo" or a "bird", is the question we ask in this paper. While fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) strives to arrive at the former,…

cs.CV2020

CC-Loss: Channel Correlation Loss For Image Classification

Zeyu Song, Dongliang Chang, Zhanyu Ma +2

The loss function is a key component in deep learning models. A commonly used loss function for classification is the cross entropy loss, which is a simple yet effective applicatio…

cs.CV2020★ 54 cited

OSLNet: Deep Small-Sample Classification with an Orthogonal Softmax Layer

Xiaoxu Li, Dongliang Chang, Zhanyu Ma +5

A deep neural network of multiple nonlinear layers forms a large function space, which can easily lead to overfitting when it encounters small-sample data. To mitigate overfitting…