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Generalized Category Discovery is a significant and complex task that aims to identify both known and undefined novel categories from a set of unlabeled data, leveraging another labeled dataset containing only known categories. The primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Wenbin An , Haonan Lin , Jiahao Nie , Feng Tian , Wenkai Shi , Yaqiang Wu , Qianying Wang , Ping Chen

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

In this paper, we consider a highly general image recognition setting wherein, given a labelled and unlabelled set of images, the task is to categorize all images in the unlabelled set. Here, the unlabelled images may come from labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sagar Vaze , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a pragmatic but underexplored problem, which requires models to automatically cluster and discover novel categories by leveraging the labeled samples from old classes. The challenge is that unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

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

While the novel class discovery has recently made great progress, existing methods typically focus on improving algorithms on class-balanced benchmarks. However, in real-world recognition tasks, the class distributions of their…

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) faces the challenge of categorizing unlabeled data containing both known and novel classes, given only labels for known classes. Previous studies often treat each class independently, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fang Zhou , Zhiqiang Chen , Martin Pavlovski , Yizhong Zhang

In recent years, automated, supervised classification techniques have been fruitfully applied to labeling and organizing large astronomical databases. These methods require off-line classifier training, based on labeled examples from each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Bazell , David J. Miller

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

Continual learning is a process that involves training learning agents to sequentially master a stream of tasks or classes without revisiting past data. The challenge lies in leveraging previously acquired knowledge to learn new tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Marcus de Carvalho , Mahardhika Pratama , Jie Zhang , Chua Haoyan , Edward Yapp

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

Novelty Detection methods identify samples that are not representative of a model's training set thereby flagging misleading predictions and bringing a greater flexibility and transparency at deployment time. However, research in this area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Rahaf Aljundi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Nikolay Chumerin , Richard E. Turner

Node classification on graphs is of great importance in many applications. Due to the limited labeling capability and evolution in real-world open scenarios, novel classes can emerge on unlabeled testing nodes. However, little attention has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yucheng Jin , Yun Xiong , Juncheng Fang , Xixi Wu , Dongxiao He , Xing Jia , Bingchen Zhao , Philip Yu

In open-world learning, an agent starts with a set of known classes, detects, and manages things that it does not know, and learns them over time from a non-stationary stream of data. Open-world learning is related to but also distinct from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohsen Jafarzadeh , Akshay Raj Dhamija , Steve Cruz , Chunchun Li , Touqeer Ahmad , Terrance E. Boult

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved the performance of various computer vision applications. However, discovering novel categories in an incremental learning scenario remains a challenging problem due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hyungmin Kim , Sungho Suh , Daehwan Kim , Daun Jeong , Hansang Cho , Junmo Kim

While many works on Continual Learning have shown promising results for mitigating catastrophic forgetting, they have relied on supervised training. To successfully learn in a label-agnostic incremental setting, a model must distinguish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Shivam Khare , Kun Cao , James Rehg

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

Continuous Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) aims to continually discover novel classes from unlabelled image sets while maintaining performance on old classes. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework, dubbed Neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

In this paper, a progressive learning technique for multi-class classification is proposed. This newly developed learning technique is independent of the number of class constraints and it can learn new classes while still retaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er

We tackle the problem of discovering novel classes in an image collection given labelled examples of other classes. We present a new approach called AutoNovel to address this problem by combining three ideas: (1) we suggest that the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Kai Han , Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sébastien Ehrhardt , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman