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Out-of-distribution detection seeks to identify novelties, samples that deviate from the norm. The task has been found to be quite challenging, particularly in the case where the normal data distribution consists of multiple semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Niv Cohen , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen

Novel Class Discovery aims to utilise prior knowledge of known classes to classify and discover unknown classes from unlabelled data. Existing NCD methods for images primarily rely on visual features, which suffer from limitations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuetong Su , Baoguo Wei , Xinyu Wang , Xu Li , Lixin Li

Category discovery (CD) is an emerging open-world learning task, which aims at automatically categorizing unlabelled data containing instances from unseen classes, given some labelled data from seen classes. This task has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

This paper tackles the problem of novel category discovery (NCD), which aims to discriminate unknown categories in large-scale image collections. The NCD task is challenging due to the closeness to the real-world scenarios, where we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lu Zhang , Lu Qi , Xu Yang , Hong Qiao , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Deep learning methods show promising results for overlapping cervical cell instance segmentation. However, in order to train a model with good generalization ability, voluminous pixel-level annotations are demanded which is quite expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yanning Zhou , Hao Chen , Huangjing Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Visual concept discovery has long been deemed important to improve interpretability of neural networks, because a bank of semantically meaningful concepts would provide us with a starting point for building machine learning models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Haiyang Huang , Zhi Chen , Cynthia Rudin

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from limited labeled examples. Numerous methods for this task focus on utilizing the predictions of unlabeled instances consistency alone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Feng Zheng , Zhenyu He , Liujun Cao , Ling Shao

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

In this paper, we address the problem of novel class discovery (NCD), which aims to cluster novel classes by leveraging knowledge from disjoint known classes. While recent advances have made significant progress in this area, existing NCD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinhang Wan , Jiyuan Liu , Qian Qu , Suyuan Liu , Chuyu Zhang , Fangdi Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Kunlun He

In this paper, we consider a real-world scenario where a model that is trained on pre-defined classes continually encounters unlabeled data that contains both known and novel classes. The goal is to continually discover novel classes while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yanan Wu , Zhixiang Chi , Yang Wang , Songhe Feng

High-quality annotation of fine-grained visual categories demands great expert knowledge, which is taxing and time consuming. Alternatively, learning fine-grained visual representation from enormous unlabeled images (e.g., species, brands)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qi Bi , Wei Ji , Jingjun Yi , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

This paper explores a novel setting called Generalized Category Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (GCDSS), aiming to segment unlabeled images given prior knowledge from a labeled set of base classes. The unlabeled images contain pixels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhengyuan Peng , Qijian Tian , Jianqing Xu , Yizhang Jin , Xuequan Lu , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

In this paper, we study the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), which aims to cluster unlabeled data from both known and unknown categories using the knowledge of labeled data from known categories. Current GCD methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Domain adaptive person re-identification (re-ID) is a challenging task due to the large discrepancy between the source domain and the target domain. To reduce the domain discrepancy, existing methods mainly attempt to generate pseudo labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Junhui Yin , Jiayan Qiu , Siqing Zhang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims to infer novel categories in an unlabeled dataset by leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising disjoint but related classes. Given that most existing literature focuses primarily on utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ziyun Li , Jona Otholt , Ben Dai , Di Hu , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation presents a unique challenge of efficiently using limited labeled data while leveraging abundant unlabeled data. Despite advancements, existing methods often do not fully exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bin Zhao , Chunshi Wang , Shuxue Ding

This paper presents the first attempt to learn semantic boundary detection using image-level class labels as supervision. Our method starts by estimating coarse areas of object classes through attentions drawn by an image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Namyup Kim , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) utilizes labeled samples of known classes to discover novel classes in unlabeled samples. Existing methods show effective performance on artificial datasets with balanced distributions. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Cuong Manh Hoang

Multi-label image recognition is a practical and challenging task compared to single-label image classification. However, previous works may be suboptimal because of a great number of object proposals or complex attentional region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Bin-Bin Gao , Hong-Yu Zhou