# Part-Stacked CNN for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08086 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.08086/

## Key facts

- Cited by 62 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 26 Dec 2015.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In the context of fine-grained visual categorization, the ability to interpret models as human-understandable visual manuals is sometimes as important as achieving high classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Part-Stacked CNN architecture that explicitly explains the fine-grained recognition process by modeling subtle differences from object parts. Based on manually-labeled strong part annotations, the proposed architecture consists of a fully convolutional network to locate multiple object parts and a two-stream classification network that en- codes object-level and part-level cues simultaneously. By adopting a set of sharing strategies between the computation of multiple object parts, the proposed architecture is very efficient running at 20 frames/sec during inference. Experimental results on the CUB-200-2011 dataset reveal the effectiveness of the proposed architecture, from both the perspective of classification accuracy and model interpretability.