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With the human pursuit of knowledge, open-set object detection (OSOD) has been designed to identify unknown objects in a dynamic world. However, an issue with the current setting is that all the predicted unknown objects share the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiyang Zheng , Weihao Li , Jie Hong , Lars Petersson , Nick Barnes

Open set recognition (OSR) and continual learning are two critical challenges in machine learning, focusing respectively on detecting novel classes at inference time and updating models to incorporate the new classes. While many recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jiawen Xu , Odej Kao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are commonly designed for closed set arrangements, where test instances only belong to some "Known Known" (KK) classes used in training. As such, they predict a class label for a test sample based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Md Tahmid Hossain , Shyh Wei Teng , Guojun Lu , Ferdous Sohel

In this paper, we attack a few-shot open-set recognition (FSOSR) problem, which is a combination of few-shot learning (FSL) and open-set recognition (OSR). It aims to quickly adapt a model to a given small set of labeled samples while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Minki Jeong , Seokeon Choi , Changick Kim

Handling entirely unknown data is a challenge for any deployed classifier. Classification models are typically trained on a static pre-defined dataset and are kept in the dark for the open unassigned feature space. As a result, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Tobias Koch , Christian Riess , Thomas Köhler

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of recognition/classification tasks. However, when applying deep learning to real-world applications, there are still multiple challenges. A typical challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xin Sun , Zhenning Yang , Chi Zhang , Guohao Peng , Keck-Voon Ling

Open set recognition requires a classifier to detect samples not belonging to any of the classes in its training set. Existing methods fit a probability distribution to the training samples on their embedding space and detect outliers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hongjie Zhang , Ang Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Driven by advancements in deep learning, computer-aided diagnoses have made remarkable progress. However, outside controlled laboratory settings, algorithms may encounter several challenges. In the medical domain, these difficulties often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Arnav Aditya , Nitin Kumar , Saurabh Shigwan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can learn directly from raw data, resulting in exceptional performance across various research areas. However, factors present in non-controllable environments such as unlabeled datasets with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Lucas Fernando Alvarenga e Silva , Samuel Felipe dos Santos , Nicu Sebe , Jurandy Almeida

Open-world machine learning is an emerging technique in artificial intelligence, where conventional machine learning models often follow closed-world assumptions, which can hinder their ability to retain previously learned knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jitendra Parmar , Praveen Singh Thakur

Often, when dealing with real-world recognition problems, we do not need, and often cannot have, knowledge of the entire set of possible classes that might appear during operational testing. In such cases, we need to think of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Pedro Ribeiro Mendes Júnior , Terrance E. Boult , Jacques Wainer , Anderson Rocha

Open set recognition is an emerging research area that aims to simultaneously classify samples from predefined classes and identify the rest as 'unknown'. In this process, one of the key challenges is to reduce the risk of generalizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Guangyao Chen , Limeng Qiao , Yemin Shi , Peixi Peng , Jia Li , Tiejun Huang , Shiliang Pu , Yonghong Tian

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is one of the dominant approaches to address the annotation bottleneck of supervised learning. Recent SSL methods can effectively leverage a large repository of unlabeled data to improve performance while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Navid Kardan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

We present a novel counterfactual framework for both Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) and Open-Set Recognition (OSR), whose common challenge is generalizing to the unseen-classes by only training on the seen-classes. Our idea stems from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhongqi Yue , Tan Wang , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

3D recognition is the foundation of 3D deep learning in many emerging fields, such as autonomous driving and robotics.Existing 3D methods mainly focus on the recognition of a fixed set of known classes and neglect possible unknown classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Weng Tingyu , Xiao Jun , Jiang Haiyong

This paper concerns open-world classification, where the classifier not only needs to classify test examples into seen classes that have appeared in training but also reject examples from unseen or novel classes that have not appeared in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Lei Shu , Hu Xu , Bing Liu

Open set recognition (OSR) is devised to address the problem of detecting novel classes during model inference. Even in recent vision models, this remains an open issue which is receiving increasing attention. Thereby, a crucial challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiawen Xu , Odej Kao , Margret Keuper

A desirable open world recognition (OWR) system requires performing three tasks: (1) Open set recognition (OSR), i.e., classifying the known (classes seen during training) and rejecting the unknown (unseen$/$novel classes) online; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fulin Gao , Weimin Zhong , Zhixing Cao , Xin Peng , Zhi Li

The ability to identify whether or not a test sample belongs to one of the semantic classes in a classifier's training set is critical to practical deployment of the model. This task is termed open-set recognition (OSR) and has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sagar Vaze , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Open-set semi-supervised learning (OSSL) embodies a practical scenario within semi-supervised learning, wherein the unlabeled training set encompasses classes absent from the labeled set. Many existing OSSL methods assume that these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Erik Wallin , Lennart Svensson , Fredrik Kahl , Lars Hammarstrand