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Traditional semi-supervised learning tasks assume that both labeled and unlabeled data follow the same class distribution, but the realistic open-world scenarios are of more complexity with unknown novel classes mixed in the unlabeled set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiaming Liu , Yangqiming Wang , Tongze Zhang , Yulu Fan , Qinli Yang , Junming Shao

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

Discovering novel classes in open-world settings is crucial for real-world applications. Traditional explicit representations, such as object descriptors or 3D segmentation maps, are constrained by their discrete, hole-prone, and noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junming Wang , Yi Shi

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

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

We introduce a new setting of Novel Class Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (NCDSS), which aims at segmenting unlabeled images containing new classes given prior knowledge from a labeled set of disjoint classes. In contrast to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuyang Zhao , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Gim Hee Lee

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

The recently proposed Novel Category Discovery (NCD) adapt paradigm of transductive learning hinders its application in more real-world scenarios. In fact, few labeled data in part of new categories can well alleviate this burden, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Chunming Li , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

We tackle the generalized category discovery (GCD) problem, which aims to discover novel classes in unlabeled datasets by leveraging the knowledge of known classes. Previous works utilize the known class knowledge through shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chuyu Zhang , Peiyan Gu , Xueyang Yu , Xuming He

In this paper, we focus on Novel Class Discovery for Point Cloud Segmentation (3D-NCD), aiming to learn a model that can segment unlabeled (novel) 3D classes using only the supervision from labeled (base) 3D classes. The key to this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Continual Novel Class Discovery (CNCD) aims to continually discover novel classes without labels while maintaining the recognition capability for previously learned classes. The main challenges faced by CNCD include the feature-discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yifan Yu , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Junzhe Chen , Yihong Gong

Existing deep learning models have achieved promising performance in recognizing skin diseases from dermoscopic images. However, these models can only recognize samples from predefined categories, when they are deployed in the clinic, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Wei Feng , Lie Ju , Lin Wang , Kaimin Song , Zongyuan Ge

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

We tackle the problem of novel class discovery, which aims to learn novel classes without supervision based on labeled data from known classes. A key challenge lies in transferring the knowledge in the known-class data to the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Peiyan Gu , Chuyu Zhang , Ruijie Xu , Xuming He

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify a mix of known and novel categories within unlabeled data sets, providing a more realistic setting for image recognition. Essentially, GCD needs to remember existing patterns thoroughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xinzi Cao , Xiawu Zheng , Guanhong Wang , Weijiang Yu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutong Lu , Yonghong Tian

For open world applications, deep neural networks (DNNs) need to be aware of previously unseen data and adaptable to evolving environments. Furthermore, it is desirable to detect and learn novel classes which are not included in the DNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Svenja Uhlemeyer , Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier , Hanno Gottschalk

Discovering novel concepts in unlabelled datasets and in a continuous manner is an important desideratum of lifelong learners. In the literature such problems have been partially addressed under very restricted settings, where novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Object detectors are typically trained once and for all on a fixed set of classes. However, this closed-world assumption is unrealistic in practice, as new classes will inevitably emerge after the detector is deployed in the wild. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Tyler L. Hayes , César R. de Souza , Namil Kim , Jiwon Kim , Riccardo Volpi , Diane Larlus

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a recently proposed open-world problem, which aims to automatically cluster partially labeled data. The main challenge is that the unlabeled data contain instances that are not only from known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe

In the field of continual learning, relying on so-called oracles for novelty detection is commonplace albeit unrealistic. This paper introduces CONCLAD ("COntinuous Novel CLAss Detector"), a comprehensive solution to the under-explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Amanda Rios , Ibrahima Ndiour , Parual Datta , Omesh Tickoo , Nilesh Ahuja