Drawing Attention to Detail: Pose Alignment through Self-Attention for Fine-Grained Object Classification

9 Feb 2023  ·  Salwa Al Khatib, Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra, Jameel Hassan ·

Intra-class variations in the open world lead to various challenges in classification tasks. To overcome these challenges, fine-grained classification was introduced, and many approaches were proposed. Some rely on locating and using distinguishable local parts within images to achieve invariance to viewpoint changes, intra-class differences, and local part deformations. Our approach, which is inspired by P2P-Net, offers an end-to-end trainable attention-based parts alignment module, where we replace the graph-matching component used in it with a self-attention mechanism. The attention module is able to learn the optimal arrangement of parts while attending to each other, before contributing to the global loss.

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