Multiproxies Adaptive Distribution Loss with Weakly Supervised Feature Aggregation for Fine-Grained Retrieval

Fine-grained retrieval is one of the complex problems in computer vision. Compared with general content-based image retrieval, fine-grained image retrieval faces more difficult challenges. In fine-grained image retrieval tasks, all classes belong to a subclass of a meta-class, so there will be small interclass variance and large intraclass variance. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a fine-grained retrieval method to improve loss and feature aggregation, which can achieve better retrieval results under a unified framework. Firstly, we propose a novel multiproxies adaptive distribution loss which can better characterize the intraclass variations and the degree of dispersion of each cluster center. Secondly, we propose a weakly supervised feature aggregation method based on channel weighting, which distinguishes the importance of different feature channels to obtain more representative image feature descriptors. We verify the performance of our proposed method on the universal benchmark datasets such as CUB200-2011 and Stanford Dog. Higher Recall@K demonstrates the advantage of our proposed method over the state of the art.