Multi-Scale Sparse Network with Cross-Attention Mechanism for Image-Based Butterflies Fine-Grained Classification
Abstract
Butterfly protection is critical for environmental protection, and butterfly classification study is an essential tool for doing so. We proposed a new fine-grained butterfly classification architecture to address the issues of duplicate information in some butterfly images and trouble identifying them due to their tiny inter-class variance. To begin, a Non-Local Mean Filtering and Multi-Scale Retinex-based method (NL-MSR) is employed to enhance the butterfly images in order to efficiently retain more detail information. Then, to accomplish fine-grained categorization of butterfly images, a Multi-scale Sparse Network with Cross-Attention Mechanism (CA-MSNet) is designed. In CA-MSNet, a Cross-Attention Mechanism module (CAM) that offers distinct weights in the horizontal and vertical directions based on two strategies is devised to successfully identify the spatial distribution of butterfly stripes and spots and suppress incorrect information. Then, to overcome the recognition problem of butterfly spots with small inter-class variance, a Multi-scale sparse module (MSS) with multi-scale receptive fields is constructed. Finally, a Depthwise Separable Convolution module is employed to mitigate the parameter rise induced by the MSS network. In order to validate the model's feasibility and effectiveness in a complex environment, we compared it to existing methods, and our proposed method achieved an average recognition accuracy of 91.88%, with an F1 value of 92.15%, indicating that it has a good effect on the fine-grained classification of butterflies and can be applied to their recognition to realize their protection.
Recommended Citation
M. Li et al., "Multi-Scale Sparse Network with Cross-Attention Mechanism for Image-Based Butterflies Fine-Grained Classification," Applied Soft Computing, vol. 117, article no. 108419, Elsevier, Mar 2022.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.108419
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Butterfly Fine-Grained Classification; Cross-Attention Mechanism; Depthwise Separable Convolution Module; Image-Based Butterflies; Multi-Scale Sparse Structure; NL-MSR Image Enhancement
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1568-4946
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2022 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Mar 2022
Comments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61703441); in part by Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. kq2014160); in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2021JJ41087); in part by Hunan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Logistics Technology (2019TP1015).