We propose an end-to-end deep convolutional network to simultaneously
localize and rank relative visual attributes, given only weakly-supervised
pairwise image comparisons. Unlike previous methods, our network jointly learns
the attribute's features, localization, and ranker. The localization module of
our network discovers the most informative image region for the attribute,
which is then used by the ranking module to learn a ranking model of the
attribute. Our end-to-end framework also significantly speeds up processing and
is much faster than previous methods. We show state-of-the-art ranking results
on various relative attribute datasets, and our qualitative localization
results clearly demonstrate our network's ability to learn meaningful image
patches.

提出了一个端到端的深度卷积神经网络，可以同时定位和排序相对视觉属性，在仅使用弱监督成对图像比较的情况下进行学习。不同于之前的方法，我们的网络联合学习了特征、定位和排序。我们的定位模块发现属性最有信息量的图像区域，这个区域被排序模块用来学习属性的排序模型。我们的端到端框架也显著加速了处理速度，比之前的方法快得多。我们在各种相对属性数据集上展示了最先进的排序结果，我们的定位结果清楚地表明了我们的网络学习了有意义的图像块。