Comparing performance of convolutional neural network models on a novel car classification task

Abstract: Recent neural network advances have lead to models that can be used for a variety of image classification tasks, useful for many of today’s media technology applications. In this paper, I train hallmark neural network architectures on a newly collected vehicle image dataset to do both coarse- and fine-grained classification of vehicle type. The results show that the neural networks can learn to distinguish both between many very different and between a few very similar classes, reaching accuracies of 50.8% accuracy on 28 classes and 61.5% in the most challenging 5, despite noisy images and labeling of the dataset.