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Novel Categories Discovery (NCD) facilitates learning from a partially annotated label space and enables deep learning (DL) models to operate in an open-world setting by identifying and differentiating instances of novel classes based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zahid Hasan , Masud Ahmed , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , Nirmalya Roy

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

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

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

Novel Categories Discovery (NCD) aims to cluster novel data based on the class semantics of known classes using the open-world partial class space annotated dataset. As an alternative to the traditional pseudo-labeling-based approaches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zahid Hasan , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Masud Ahmed , Sanjay Purushotham , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , Nirmalya Roy

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

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

As a promising field in open-world learning, \textit{Novel Class Discovery} (NCD) is usually a task to cluster unseen novel classes in an unlabeled set based on the prior knowledge of labeled data within the same domain. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yicheng Wang , Feng Liu , Junmin Liu , Kai Sun

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

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

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

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

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

Humans possess an innate ability to identify and differentiate instances that they are not familiar with, by leveraging and adapting the knowledge that they have acquired so far. Importantly, they achieve this without deteriorating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 K J Joseph , Sujoy Paul , Gaurav Aggarwal , Soma Biswas , Piyush Rai , Kai Han , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

Although existing semi-supervised learning models achieve remarkable success in learning with unannotated in-distribution data, they mostly fail to learn on unlabeled data sampled from novel semantic classes due to their closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sheng Zhang , Salman Khan , Zhiqiang Shen , Muzammal Naseer , Guangyi Chen , Fahad Khan

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

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

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

We consider the problem of discovering novel object categories in an image collection. While these images are unlabelled, we also assume prior knowledge of related but different image classes. We use such prior knowledge to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman