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CUB-200-2011

Fine-Grained Image Classification Benchmark

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Top Performing Models

Rank	Model	Paper	Accuracy	Date	Code
1	PIM 📚	A Novel Plug-in Module for Fine-Grained Visual Classification	92.80	2022-02-08	📦 chou141253/fgvc-pim
2	CAP	Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP) for Fine-grained Visual Classification	91.80	2021-01-17	📦 ArdhenduBehera/cap
3	IELT	0/1 Deep Neural Networks via Block Coordinate Descent	91.80	2022-06-19	-
4	TransFG	TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grained Recognition	91.70	2021-03-14	📦 TACJu/TransFG 📦 skchen1993/TrangFG
5	SWAG (ViT H/14) 📚	Revisiting Weakly Supervised Pre-Training of Visual Perception Models	91.70	2022-01-20	📦 facebookresearch/SWAG 📦 Expedit-LargeScale-Vision-Transformer/Expedit-SWAG
6	FFVT	Feature Fusion Vision Transformer for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization	91.60	2021-07-06	📦 Markin-Wang/FFVT
7	DATL 📚	Domain Adaptive Transfer Learning on Visual Attention Aware Data Augmentation for Fine-grained Visual Categorization	91.20	2020-10-06	-
8	CAL	Counterfactual Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization and Re-identification	90.60	2021-08-19	📦 raoyongming/CAL
9	TBMSL-Net	Multi-branch and Multi-scale Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization	89.60	2020-03-20	📦 ZF1044404254/TBMSL-Net 📦 ZF1044404254/MMAL-Net 📦 ZF4444/MMAL-Net
10	FBSD	Feature Boosting, Suppression, and Diversification for Fine-Grained Visual Classification	89.50	2021-03-04	📦 chaomaer/FBSD

All Papers (23)

A Novel Plug-in Module for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

2022

PIM

chou141253/fgvc-pim

Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP) for Fine-grained Visual Classification

2021

CAP

ArdhenduBehera/cap

0/1 Deep Neural Networks via Block Coordinate Descent

2022

IELT

TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grained Recognition

2021

TransFG

TACJu/TransFG skchen1993/TrangFG

Revisiting Weakly Supervised Pre-Training of Visual Perception Models

2022

SWAG (ViT H/14)

facebookresearch/SWAG Expedit-LargeScale-Vision-Transformer/Expedit-SWAG

Feature Fusion Vision Transformer for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

2021

FFVT

Markin-Wang/FFVT

Domain Adaptive Transfer Learning on Visual Attention Aware Data Augmentation for Fine-grained Visual Categorization

2020

DATL

Counterfactual Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization and Re-identification

2021

CAL

raoyongming/CAL

Multi-branch and Multi-scale Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

2020

TBMSL-Net

ZF1044404254/TBMSL-Net ZF1044404254/MMAL-Net

Feature Boosting, Suppression, and Diversification for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

2021

FBSD

chaomaer/FBSD

See Better Before Looking Closer: Weakly Supervised Data Augmentation Network for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

2019

WS-DAN

wvinzh/WS_DAN_PyTorch tau-yihouxiang/WS_DAN

Towards Faster Training of Global Covariance Pooling Networks by Iterative Matrix Square Root Normalization

2017

MPN-COV

osmr/imgclsmob jiangtaoxie/fast-MPN-COV

Fixing the train-test resolution discrepancy

2019

FixSENet-154

facebookresearch/FixRes libffcv/ffcv-imagenet kun-woo-park/Deeplearning_project_STL_10

PCNN: Probable-Class Nearest-Neighbor Explanations Improve Fine-Grained Image Classification Accuracy for AIs and Humans

2023

ResNet-50

giangnguyen2412/PCNN-src-code-TMRL2024 anguyen8/nearest-neighbor-XAI

Learning Class Unique Features in Fine-Grained Visual Classification

2020

DenseNet161+MM+FRL

Look-into-Object: Self-supervised Structure Modeling for Object Recognition

2020

LIO

JDAI-CV/DCL JDAI-CV/LIO

Looking for the Devil in the Details: Learning Trilinear Attention Sampling Network for Fine-grained Image Recognition

2019

TASN

researchmm/tasn

Learning a Discriminative Filter Bank within a CNN for Fine-grained Recognition

2016

DFL-CNN

jobinkv/Ongoing

Pairwise Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

2017

PC

abhimanyudubey/confusion

Unlabeled Samples Generated by GAN Improve the Person Re-identification Baseline in vitro

2017

Basel.+LSRO

layumi/Person-reID_GAN whj363636/Adversarial-attack-on-Person-ReID-With-Deep-Mis-Ranking

Exploring Localization for Self-supervised Fine-grained Contrastive Learning

2021

BYOL+CVSA (ResNet-50)

Westlake-AI/openmixup

Fine-grained Visual Classification with High-temperature Refinement and Background Suppression

2023

HERBS

chou141253/FGVC-HERBS

Multi-scale Activation, Refinement, and Aggregation: Exploring Diverse Cues for Fine-Grained Bird Recognition

2025

MDCM

CUB-200-2011

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All Papers (23)

A Novel Plug-in Module for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP) for Fine-grained Visual Classification

0/1 Deep Neural Networks via Block Coordinate Descent

TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grained Recognition

Revisiting Weakly Supervised Pre-Training of Visual Perception Models

Feature Fusion Vision Transformer for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

Domain Adaptive Transfer Learning on Visual Attention Aware Data Augmentation for Fine-grained Visual Categorization

Counterfactual Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization and Re-identification

Multi-branch and Multi-scale Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

Feature Boosting, Suppression, and Diversification for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

See Better Before Looking Closer: Weakly Supervised Data Augmentation Network for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Towards Faster Training of Global Covariance Pooling Networks by Iterative Matrix Square Root Normalization

Fixing the train-test resolution discrepancy

PCNN: Probable-Class Nearest-Neighbor Explanations Improve Fine-Grained Image Classification Accuracy for AIs and Humans

Learning Class Unique Features in Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Look-into-Object: Self-supervised Structure Modeling for Object Recognition

Looking for the Devil in the Details: Learning Trilinear Attention Sampling Network for Fine-grained Image Recognition

Learning a Discriminative Filter Bank within a CNN for Fine-grained Recognition

Pairwise Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Unlabeled Samples Generated by GAN Improve the Person Re-identification Baseline in vitro

Exploring Localization for Self-supervised Fine-grained Contrastive Learning

Fine-grained Visual Classification with High-temperature Refinement and Background Suppression

Multi-scale Activation, Refinement, and Aggregation: Exploring Diverse Cues for Fine-Grained Bird Recognition

Model	Paper	Accuracy	Date
PIM	A Novel Plug-in Module for Fine-Grained Visual Cl…	92.80	2022-02-08
CAP	Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP) for Fine-…	91.80	2021-01-17
IELT	0/1 Deep Neural Networks via Block Coordinate Des…	91.80	2022-06-19
TransFG	TransFG: A Transformer Architecture for Fine-grai…	91.70	2021-03-14
SWAG (ViT H/14)	Revisiting Weakly Supervised Pre-Training of Visu…	91.70	2022-01-20
FFVT	Feature Fusion Vision Transformer for Fine-Graine…	91.60	2021-07-06
DATL	Domain Adaptive Transfer Learning on Visual Atten…	91.20	2020-10-06
CAL	Counterfactual Attention Learning for Fine-Graine…	90.60	2021-08-19
TBMSL-Net	Multi-branch and Multi-scale Attention Learning f…	89.60	2020-03-20
FBSD	Feature Boosting, Suppression, and Diversificatio…	89.50	2021-03-04
WS-DAN	See Better Before Looking Closer: Weakly Supervis…	89.40	2019-01-26
MPN-COV	Towards Faster Training of Global Covariance Pool…	88.70	2017-12-04
FixSENet-154	Fixing the train-test resolution discrepancy	88.70	2019-06-14
ResNet-50	PCNN: Probable-Class Nearest-Neighbor Explanation…	88.59	2023-08-25
DenseNet161+MM+FRL	Learning Class Unique Features in Fine-Grained Vi…	88.50	2020-11-22
LIO	Look-into-Object: Self-supervised Structure Model…	88.00	2020-03-31
TASN	Looking for the Devil in the Details: Learning Tr…	87.90	2019-03-14
DFL-CNN	Learning a Discriminative Filter Bank within a CN…	87.40	2016-11-29
PC	Pairwise Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classi…	86.90	2017-05-22
Basel.+LSRO	Unlabeled Samples Generated by GAN Improve the Pe…	84.40	2017-01-26
BYOL+CVSA (ResNet-50)	Exploring Localization for Self-supervised Fine-g…	77.10	2021-06-30
HERBS	Fine-grained Visual Classification with High-temp…		2023-03-11
MDCM	Multi-scale Activation, Refinement, and Aggregati…		2025-04-12