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We study the new task of class-incremental Novel Class Discovery (class-iNCD), which refers to the problem of discovering novel categories in an unlabelled data set by leveraging a pre-trained model that has been trained on a labelled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Subhankar Roy , Mingxuan Liu , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Accurate brain tumor classification is critical for intra-operative decision making in neuro-oncological surgery. However, existing approaches are restricted to a fixed set of predefined classes and are therefore unable to capture patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Matthias Perkonigg , Patrick Rockenschaub , Georg Göbel , Adelheid Wöhrer

We present a novel clustering objective that learns a neural network classifier from scratch, given only unlabelled data samples. The model discovers clusters that accurately match semantic classes, achieving state-of-the-art results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Xu Ji , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Graph clustering, a classical task in graph learning, involves partitioning the nodes of a graph into distinct clusters. This task has applications in various real-world scenarios, such as anomaly detection, social network analysis, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiaoyang Ji , Yuchen Zhou , Haofu Yang , Shiyue Xu , Jiahao Li

In this paper, we investigate the use of an unsupervised label clustering technique and demonstrate that it enables substantial improvements in visual relationship prediction accuracy on the Person in Context (PIC) dataset. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hsuan-Kung Yang , An-Chieh Cheng , Kuan-Wei Ho , Tsu-Jui Fu , Chun-Yi Lee

In unsupervised feature learning, sample specificity based methods ignore the inter-class information, which deteriorates the discriminative capability of representation models. Clustering based methods are error-prone to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Wei Wang , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabelled images from both `seen' and `unseen' classes by transferring knowledge from a set of labelled `seen' class images. A key theme in existing GCD approaches is adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hongjun Wang , Sagar Vaze , Kai Han

Data imbalance and open-ended distribution are two intrinsic characteristics of the real visual world. Though encouraging progress has been made in tackling each challenge separately, few works dedicated to combining them towards real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jianhong Bai , Zuozhu Liu , Hualiang Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Lianrui Mu , Xiaomeng Li , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yang Feng , Jian Wu , Haoji Hu

Person re-identification (re-ID), is a challenging task due to the high variance within identity samples and imaging conditions. Although recent advances in deep learning have achieved remarkable accuracy in settled scenes, i.e., source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Fengxiang Yang , Ke Li , Zhun Zhong , Zhiming Luo , Xing Sun , Hao Cheng , Xiaowei Guo , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji , Shaozi Li

In this paper, we tackle the problem of novel visual category discovery, i.e., grouping unlabelled images from new classes into different semantic partitions by leveraging a labelled dataset that contains images from other different but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Bingchen Zhao , Kai Han

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

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

Constrained clustering has gained significant attention in the field of machine learning as it can leverage prior information on a growing amount of only partially labeled data. Following recent advances in deep generative models, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Laura Manduchi , Kieran Chin-Cheong , Holger Michel , Sven Wellmann , Julia E. Vogt

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised clustering method, CEC-IB, that models data with a set of Gaussian distributions and that retrieves clusters based on a partial labeling provided by the user (partition-level side information). By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Marek Śmieja , Bernhard C. Geiger

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

We propose a hierarchical graph neural network (GNN) model that learns how to cluster a set of images into an unknown number of identities using a training set of images annotated with labels belonging to a disjoint set of identities. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yifan Xing , Tong He , Tianjun Xiao , Yongxin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , David Wipf , Zheng Zhang , Stefano Soatto

Incomplete multi-view clustering has become one of the important research problems due to the extensive missing multi-view data in the real world. Although the existing methods have made great progress, there are still some problems: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Guoqing Chao , Kaixin Xu , Xijiong Xie , Yongyong Chen

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is crucial for improving recommendation accuracy and generalization, yet traditional methods are often hindered by the reliance on shared user/item IDs, which are unavailable in most real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peiyu Hu , Wayne Lu , Jia Wang

Clustering has long been a popular unsupervised learning approach to identify groups of similar objects and discover patterns from unlabeled data in many applications. Yet, coming up with meaningful interpretations of the estimated clusters…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Minjie Wang , Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

Cross-modal data matching refers to retrieval of data from one modality, when given a query from another modality. In general, supervised algorithms achieve better retrieval performance compared to their unsupervised counterpart, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Devraj Mandal , Pramod Rao , Soma Biswas