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We address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD) in this paper, i.e. clustering the unlabeled images leveraging the information from a set of seen classes, where the unlabeled images could contain both seen classes and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixin Fei , Zhongkai Zhao , Siwei Yang , Bingchen Zhao

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a challenging task in which, given a partially labelled dataset, models must categorize all unlabelled instances, regardless of whether they come from labelled categories or from new ones. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hongjun Wang , Sagar Vaze , Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a pragmatic and challenging open-world task, which endeavors to cluster unlabeled samples from both novel and old classes, leveraging some labeled data of old classes. Given that knowledge learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Zhun Zhong , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) focuses on classifying known categories while simultaneously discovering novel categories from unlabeled data. However, previous GCD methods face challenges due to inconsistent optimization objectives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jizhou Han , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify unlabeled samples by leveraging the base knowledge from labeled ones, where the unlabeled set consists of both base and novel classes. Since clustering methods are time-consuming at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Duo Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Linglan Zhao , Zhongqiang Zhang , Xiangzhong Fang , Weiran Huang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data containing both seen and novel categories. Although existing methods perform well on generic datasets, they struggle in fine-grained scenarios. We attribute this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Enguang Wang , Zhimao Peng , Zhengyuan Xie , Haori Lu , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu

We tackle the problem of discovering novel classes in an image collection given labelled examples of other classes. This setting is similar to semi-supervised learning, but significantly harder because there are no labelled examples for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Kai Han , Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify both known and unknown categories, with only partial labels given for the known categories, posing a challenging open-set recognition problem. State-of-the-art approaches for GCD task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wei He , Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Xianbiao Qi , Rong Xiao , Chun-Guang Li

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to discover novel categories in unlabelled datasets using knowledge learned from labelled samples. Previous studies argued that parametric classifiers are prone to overfitting to seen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi

The premise of semi-supervised learning (SSL) is that combining labeled and unlabeled data yields significantly more accurate models. Despite empirical successes, the theoretical understanding of SSL is still far from complete. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-06 Eyar Azar , Boaz Nadler

The recent emergence of deep learning has led to a great deal of work on designing supervised deep semantic segmentation algorithms. As in many tasks sufficient pixel-level labels are very difficult to obtain, we propose a method which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Matthias Schwab , Agnes Mayr , Markus Haltmeier

In Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), we cluster unlabeled samples of known and novel classes, leveraging a training dataset of known classes. A salient challenge arises due to domain shifts between these datasets. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sai Bhargav Rongali , Sarthak Mehrotra , Ankit Jha , Mohamad Hassan N C , Shirsha Bose , Tanisha Gupta , Mainak Singha , Biplab Banerjee

We develop here a semiparametric Gaussian mixture model (SGMM) for unsupervised learning with valuable spatial information taken into consideration. Specifically, we assume for each instance a random location. Then, conditional on this…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Baichen Yu , Jin Liu , Hansheng Wang

The advancement of deep learning has greatly improved supervised image classification. However, labeling data is costly, prompting research into unsupervised learning methods such as contrastive learning. In real-world scenarios, fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shogo Nakayama , Masahiro Okuda

Medical image segmentation is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis, and convolutional neural networks are popular segmentation networks nowadays. However, the inherent local operation characteristics make it difficult to focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Min Xian , Chunping Ning

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes. Training a parametric classifier solely on image features often leads to overfitting to old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lorenzo Caselli , Marco Mistretta , Simone Magistri , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) seeks to uncover novel categories in unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known categories, yet prevailing visual-only pipelines and the loose coupling between supervised learning and discovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Qiang Wang , Shaokun Wang , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify inputs into both known and novel categories, a task crucial for open-world scientific discoveries. However, current GCD methods are limited to unimodal data, overlooking the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yuchang Su , Renping Zhou , Siyu Huang , Xingjian Li , Tianyang Wang , Ziyue Wang , Min Xu