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MetaIRNet

This is the official implementation of our papers.

  • Satoshi Tsutsui, Yanwei Fu, and David Crandall. (2022). Reinforcing Generated Images via Meta-learning for One-Shot Fine-Grained Visual Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 46(3), 1455-1463.
  • Satoshi Tsutsui, Yanwei Fu, and David Crandall. (2019). Meta-Reinforced Synthetic Data for One-Shot Fine-Grained Visual Recognition. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Project Page: http://vision.soic.indiana.edu/metairnet/

We introduce an effective way to employ an ImageNet-pre-trained image generator for the purpose of improving fine-grained one-shot classification when data is scarce. As a way to fine-tune the pre-trained generator, our pilot study finds that adjusting only scale and shift parameters in batch normalization can produce a visually realistic images. This way works with a single image making the method less dependent on the number of available images. Furthermore, although naively adding the generated images into the training set does not improve the performance, we show that it can improve the performance if we properly mix the generated images with the original image. In order to learn the parameters of this mixing, we adapt a meta-learning framework. We implement this idea and demonstrate a consistent and significant improvement over several classifiers on two fine-grained benchmark datasets.

Framework
Our Meta Image Reinforcing Network (MetaIRNet) has two modules: an image fusion network, and a one-shot classification network. The image fusion network reinforces generated images to try to make them beneficial for the one-shot classifier, while the one-shot classifier learns representations that are suitable to classify unseen examples with few examples. Both networks are trained by end-to-end, so the loss back-propagates from classifier to the fusion network.

Samples
We show samples of original image, generated image, fused image, and mixing weight. Higher weight (red) means more original image used, and lower weight (blue) means more generated image used.

If you find this code useful, please consider to cite the following papers.

@article{tsutsui2022bird,
	author = {Tsutsui, Satoshi and Fu, Yanwei and Crandall, David},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)},
	number = {3},
	pages = {1455-1463},
	title = {Reinforcing Generated Images via Meta-learning for One-Shot Fine-Grained Visual Recognition},
	volume = {46},
	year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{metasatoshi19,
    author={Satoshi Tsutsui, Yanwei Fu, David Crandall},
    booktitle	= {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
    title = {{Meta-Reinforced Synthetic Data for One-Shot Fine-Grained Visual Recognition}},
    year = {2019}
}

Environment

  • python 3.6
  • pytorch 1.0.1
    • Please stick to this particular version! There's some compatibility issues with another version.
  • numpy, scipy, pandas, tqdm, scikit-learn, requests, and accimage.

option 1: install on your own enviroment

You can install Anaconda (or Miniconda) and then install the following packages.

conda install -y ipykernel numpy scipy matplotlib pandas tqdm opencv pillow scikit-learn requests
conda install -y pytorch==1.0.1 torchvision cudatoolkit=9.0 -c pytorch
conda install -y -c conda-forge accimage

option 2: replicate my environment

env.yml is basically the exact environment of mine. Let's create a conda environment and replicate the envorinment as follows.

conda deactivate
conda create  -y  --name=satoshi python=3.6.5
conda activate satoshi
conda env update -f env.yml

Dataset

CUB dataset

wget http://www.vision.caltech.edu/visipedia-data/CUB-200-2011/CUB_200_2011.tgz 
tar -xvzf CUB_200_2011.tgz 
mkdir ./data
mv CUB_200_2011 ./data/cub
rm -rf CUB_200_2011.tgz 

NAB dataset

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/nf78cbxq6bxpcfc/nabirds.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nabirds.tar.gz
mkdir ./data
mv nabirds. ./data/nab
rm -rf nabirds.tar.gz 

Generate the images with pretrained GANs

python download_gdrive.py 1nAle7FCVFZdix2--ks0r5JBkFnKw8ctW BigGAN_ch96_bs256x8_138k.zip
mkdir ./data
unzip BigGAN_ch96_bs256x8_138k.zip
mv ./138k/G_ema.pth ./data/G_ema.pth
rm -rf BigGAN_ch96_bs256x8_138k.zip 138k
  • Commands to generate images for each dataset
python generate_images.py --gpu 0 --dataset cub
python generate_images.py --gpu 0 --dataset nab
python download_gdrive.py 1HHmQ7VKx6jPlemhWIH9XCag3rWOy9zGm cub-generated.tar
tar -xvf cub-generated.tar
mv cub-generated ./data/cub-generated
rm cub-generated.tar

Pretrained models

Google Drive links for pretrained models:

python download_gdrive.py 1HSQK6gG4WMLtDfljikQRffHqim0zTpUa cub_nway-5_nshot-1_classifier-protonet_backbone-resnet18_mixer-fusion.model.pth

Run the code

  • Training on CUB on your own
python main.py --classifier protonet --mixer fusion --gpu 0
  • Testing with the pretrained model on CUB
python main.py --classifier protonet --mixer fusion --epochs 0 --resume ./cub_nway-5_nshot-1_classifier-protonet_backbone-resnet18_mixer-fusion.model.pth --gpu 0

This should give you the accuracy of 0.84129.

Acknowledgement

In addition to the acknowgement in the paper, I would like to thank these repositories where I borrowed some code. The borrowed part is mentioned in the comments.

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