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Given a large unlabeled set of images, how to efficiently and effectively group them into clusters based on extracted visual representations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Wen Lin

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires a model to both classify known categories and cluster unknown categories in unlabeled data. Prior methods leveraged self-supervised pre-training combined with supervised fine-tuning on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rabah Ouldnoughi , Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

When evaluated in dynamic, open-world situations, neural networks struggle to detect unseen classes. This issue complicates the deployment of continual learners in realistic environments where agents are not explicitly informed when novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Abe Ejilemele , Jorge Mendez-Mendez

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved significant success in image classification by utilizing large-scale datasets. However, it is still of great challenge to learn from scratch on small-scale datasets efficiently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yilu Guo , Shicai Yang , Weijie Chen , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Machine-vision-based defect classification techniques have been widely adopted for automatic quality inspection in manufacturing processes. This article describes a general framework for classifying defects from high volume data batches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenbo Sun , Raed Al Kontar , Judy Jin , Tzyy-Shuh Chang

Change point detection (CPD) methods aim to identify abrupt shifts in the distribution of input data streams. Accurate estimators for this task are crucial across various real-world scenarios. Yet, traditional unsupervised CPD techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Alexandra Bazarova , Evgenia Romanenkova , Alexey Zaytsev

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

Neural networks that are trained on limited category samples often mispredict out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. We observe that features of the same category are more tightly clustered in feature space, while those of different categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Junkun Chen , Jilin Mei , Liang Chen , Fangzhou Zhao , Yan Xing , Yu Hu

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

On-the-Fly Category Discovery (OCD) aims to recognize known classes while simultaneously discovering emerging novel categories during inference, using supervision only from known classes during offline training. Existing approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bohan Zhang , Weidong Tang , Zhixiang Chi , Yi Jin , Zhenbo Li , Yang Wang , Yanan Wu

Automatically discovering image categories in unlabeled natural images is one of the important goals of unsupervised learning. However, the task is challenging and even human beings define visual categories based on a large amount of prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Zsolt Kira

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has rapidly emerged as a transformative approach in computer vision, enabling the extraction of rich feature representations from vast amounts of unlabeled data and reducing reliance on costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki , Athanasios Gkelias

The increasing impact of black box models, and particularly of unsupervised ones, comes with an increasing interest in tools to understand and interpret them. In this paper, we consider in particular how to characterise visual groupings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Iro Laina , Ruth C. Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

Despite recent progress in enhancing the efficacy of Open-Domain Continual Learning (ODCL) in Vision-Language Models (VLM), failing to (1) correctly identify the Task-ID of a test image and (2) use only the category set corresponding to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yadong Lu , Shitian Zhao , Boxiang Yun , Dongsheng Jiang , Yin Li , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

This paper presents a new self-supervised system for learning to detect novel and previously unseen categories of objects in images. The proposed system receives as input several unlabeled videos of scenes containing various objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Juntao Tan , Changkyu Song , Abdeslam Boularias

Data stream processing has become a landmark in modern machine learning applications, with concept drifts and novel class appearances posing the primary challenges faced by sophisticated recognition methods. This work proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Joanna Komorniczak

Constantly discovering novel concepts is crucial in evolving environments. This paper explores the underexplored task of Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD), which aims to incrementally discover new classes from unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Zhun Zhong , Wenzhuo Liu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel training procedure for the continual representation learning problem in which a neural network model is sequentially learned to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in visual search tasks. Our method, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tommaso Barletti , Niccolo' Biondi , Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Alberto Del Bimbo

The objective of unsupervised domain adaptation is to leverage features from a labeled source domain and learn a classifier for an unlabeled target domain, with a similar but different data distribution. Most deep learning approaches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Pedro O. Pinheiro