FGDCC: Fine-Grained Deep Cluster Categorization -- A Framework for Intra-Class Variability Problems in Plant Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19960v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:14:06 GMT
• Title: FGDCC: Fine-Grained Deep Cluster Categorization -- A Framework for Intra-Class Variability Problems in Plant Classification
• Authors: Luciano Araujo Dourado Filho, Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel method that aims at leveraging classification performance in Fine-Grained Visual Categorization tasks.<n>Our goal is to apply clustering over each class individually, which can allow to discover pseudo-labels that encodes a latent degree of similarity between images.<n>Our method still achieves state-of-the-art performance on the PlantNet300k dataset even though some of its components haven't been shown to be fully optimized.
• Score: 0.6445605125467574
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Intra-class variability is given according to the significance in the degree of dissimilarity between images within a class. In that sense, depending on its intensity, intra-class variability can hinder the learning process for DL models, specially when such classes are also underrepresented, which is a very common scenario in Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) tasks. This paper proposes a novel method that aims at leveraging classification performance in FGVC tasks by learning fine-grained features via classification of class-wise cluster assignments. Our goal is to apply clustering over each class individually, which can allow to discover pseudo-labels that encodes a latent degree of similarity between images. In turn, those labels can be employed in a hierarchical classification process that allows to learn more fine-grained visual features and thereby mitigating intra-class variability issues. Initial experiments over the PlantNet300k enabled to shed light upon several key points in which future work will have to be developed in order to find more conclusive evidence regarding the effectiveness of our method. Our method still achieves state-of-the-art performance on the PlantNet300k dataset even though some of its components haven't been shown to be fully optimized. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/ADAM-UEFS/FGDCC}{https://github.com/ADAM-UEFS/FGDCC}.

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