Image Classification

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Image classification studies how to assign one or more labels to an image, supporting applications from species identification and medical diagnosis to document processing and remote sensing. Common approaches include convolutional neural networks, vision transformers, and pretrained vision-language models, trained with supervised, self-supervised, transfer, or few-shot learning. Researchers also develop data augmentation, hierarchical prediction, uncertainty estimation, and efficient models for settings such as ImageNet, corruption benchmarks, and specialized domain datasets. A central challenge is that strong accuracy on standard test sets may not transfer under distribution shifts or reveal reliance on spurious cues, while improving robustness, calibration, and efficiency can involve trade-offs.

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  1. Discriminative Flow Matching Via Local Generative Predictors

    Mar 14, 2026Om Govind Jha, Manoj Bamniya, Ayon BorthakurFlow MatchingObject Detection

    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India · Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

  2. SortScrews: A Dataset and Baseline for Real-time Screw Classification

    Mar 13, 2026Tianhao Fu, Bingxuan Yang, Juncheng Guo +2Industrial AutomationClassification

    University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada · Vector Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada · Project Neura, Toronto, ON, Canada +2

  3. Wear Classification of Abrasive Flap Wheels using a Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach

    Mar 13, 2026Falko Kähler, Maxim Wille, Ole Schmedemann +1Hierarchical ClassificationClassification

    Hamburg University of Applied Technology, Institute of Aircraft Production Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany.

  4. Single Pixel Image Classification using an Ultrafast Digital Light Projector

    Mar 12, 2026Aisha Kanwal, Graeme E. Johnstone, Fahimeh Dehkhoda +5Image ClassificationComputational Imaging

    Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, 99 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RD, UK · School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB, UK

  5. Beyond Barren Plateaus: A Scalable Quantum Convolutional Architecture for High-Fidelity Image Classification

    Mar 11, 2026Radhakrishnan DelhibabuQuantum Convolutional Neural NetworksQuantum Circuit Trainability

    School of Computing Science and Engineering (SCOPE), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, India.

  6. A Saccade-inspired Approach to Image Classification using Vision Transformer Attention Maps

    Mar 10, 2026Matthis Dallain, Laurent Rodriguez, Laurent Udo Perrinet +1Active VisionFoveated Vision

    Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, 13005, France · Laboratoire d’Électronique, Antennes et Télécommunications, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, 06903, France

  7. Machine Learning Based Identification of Solvents from Post-Desiccation Patterns

    Mar 8, 2026Jesús Israel Morán-Cortés, Felipe Pacheco-VázquezImage Classification

    Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apartado Postal J-48, Puebla 72570, Mexico.

  8. A Systematic Comparison of Training Objectives for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Image Classification

    Mar 8, 2026Furkan Genç, Onat Özdemir, Emre AkbaşOOD DetectionImage Classification

    Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University · Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University

  9. Scaling Laws in the Tiny Regime: How Small Models Change Their Mistakes

    Mar 7, 2026Mohammed Alnemari, Rizwan Qureshi, Nader BegrazadahNeural Scaling LawsTiny ML

    Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia · AIST Research Center, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia · Department of Computer Science, Salim Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan +1

  10. Multimodal Large Language Models as Image Classifiers

    Mar 6, 2026Nikita Kisel, Illia Volkov, Klara Janouskova +1Multimodal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Classification

    Visual Recognition Group, Czech Technical University in Prague

  11. DiffInf: Influence-Guided Diffusion for Supervision Alignment in Facial Attribute Learning

    Mar 6, 2026Basudha Pal, Zhaoyang Wang, Rama ChellappaLearning with Noisy LabelsImage Classification

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  12. Margin and Consistency Supervision for Calibrated and Robust Vision Models

    Mar 6, 2026Salim KhazemDistribution Shift RobustnessModel Calibration

    Talan Research Center, Paris, France.

  13. Unlocking ImageNet's Multi-Object Nature: Automated Large-Scale Multilabel Annotation

    Mar 5, 2026Junyu Chen, Md Yousuf Harun, Christopher KananUnsupervised Visual Concept DiscoveryMulti-Label Classification

    University of Rochester · Rochester Institute of Technology

  14. Enhancing Authorship Attribution with Synthetic Paintings

    Mar 4, 2026Clarissa Loures, Caio Hosken, Luan Oliveira +2Authorship AttributionImage Classification

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil · Instituto Kunumi, Brazil

  15. Semantic Bridging Domains: Pseudo-Source as Test-Time Connector

    Mar 4, 2026Xizhong Yang, Huiming Wang, Ning Xu +1Domain AdaptationSource-Free Domain Adaptation

    Southeast University · Kuaishou Technology

  16. Separators in Enhancing Autoregressive Pretraining for Vision Mamba

    Mar 4, 2026Hanpeng Liu, Zidan Wang, Shuoxi Zhang +2Visual Autoregressive ModelsVisual SSMs

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  17. Specificity-aware reinforcement learning for fine-grained open-world classification

    Mar 3, 2026Samuele Angheben, Davide Berasi, Alessandro Conti +2Image ClassificationFine-Grained Image Classification

    University of Trento · Fondazione Bruno Kessler

  18. Layer-wise QUBO-Based Training of CNN Classifiers for Quantum Annealing

    Mar 3, 2026Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah HerrmanImage ClassificationHybrid Quantum-Classical ML

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Knoxville, 37996, TN, USA. · Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt.

  19. WTHaar-Net: a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach

    Mar 3, 2026Vittorio Palladino, Tsai Idden, Ahmet Enis CetinHybrid Quantum-Classical MLConvolutional Neural Networks

    University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA · Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy

  20. Skin Tone in the Wild: A Dataset and Benchmark for 10-tone MST Classification

    Mar 2, 2026Vitor Matias, Márcus Vinícius Lobo Costa, Tiago Novello +1ClassificationAlgorithmic Fairness

    Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil · Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  21. Leveraging Model Soups to Classify Intangible Cultural Heritage Images from the Mekong Delta

    Mar 2, 2026Quoc-Khang Tran, Minh-Thien Nguyen, Nguyen-Khang PhamImage ClassificationFine-Grained Image Classification

    College of Information and Communication Technology, Can Tho University · School of Graduate, Can Tho University

  22. MobileMold: A Smartphone-Based Microscopy Dataset for Food Mold Detection

    Mar 2, 2026Dinh Nam Pham, Leonard Prokisch, Bennet Meyer +1Microscopy Image AnalysisImage Classification

    University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  23. An Analysis of Multi-Task Architectures for the Hierarchic Multi-Label Problem of Vehicle Model and Make Classification

    Mar 2, 2026Alexandru Manole, Laura DiosanMulti-Task LearningMulti-Label Classification

    Department of Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  24. IU: Imperceptible Universal Backdoor Attack

    Feb 28, 2026Hsin Lin, Yan-Lun Chen, Ren-Hung Hwang +1Backdoor AttacksImage Classification

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  25. Energy-Efficient Information Representation in MNIST Classification Using Biologically Inspired Learning

    Feb 28, 2026Patrick Stricker, Florian Röhrbein, Andreas KnoblauchEnergy-Efficient MLBiologically Plausible Learning

    KEIM Institute, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany · Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

  26. Deep Learning-Based Meat Freshness Detection with Segmentation and OOD-Aware Classification

    Feb 27, 2026Hutama Arif Bramantyo, Mukarram Ali Faridi, Rui Chen +2ClassificationImage Classification

    Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 USA · Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Environment & Nutrition Sciences, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088 USA

  27. RAViT: Resolution-Adaptive Vision Transformer

    Feb 27, 2026Martial Guidez, Stefan Duffner, Christophe GarciaEfficient ViTsVision Transformer

    INSA Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS, UMR5205, 69621 Villeurbanne, France

  28. Intrinsic Lorentz Neural Network

    Feb 27, 2026Xianglong Shi, Ziheng Chen, Yunhan Jiang +1Hyperbolic Representation LearningImage Classification

    University of Science and Technology of China · University of Trento · Peking University

  29. Devling into Adversarial Transferability on Image Classification: Review, Benchmark, and Evaluation

    Feb 26, 2026Xiaosen Wang, Zhijin Ge, Bohan Liu +5Transfer-Based Adversarial AttacksAdversarial Transferability

    HUST · Xidian University · Wuhan University +2

  30. Cross-Task Benchmarking of CNN Architectures

    Feb 25, 2026Kamal Sherawat, Vikrant BhatiConvolutional Neural NetworksDynamic Convolution

    Virginia Tech, ECE 6524 - Deep Learning