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Discovering novel concepts in unlabelled datasets and in a continuous manner is an important desideratum of lifelong learners. In the literature such problems have been partially addressed under very restricted settings, where novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

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

In a real-world setting, object instances from new classes can be continuously encountered by object detectors. When existing object detectors are applied to such scenarios, their performance on old classes deteriorates significantly. A few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 K J Joseph , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) is a learning paradigm, where a machine learning model is tasked to semantically group instances from unlabeled data, by utilizing labeled instances from a disjoint set of classes. In this work, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 K J Joseph , Sujoy Paul , Gaurav Aggarwal , Soma Biswas , Piyush Rai , Kai Han , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

Generalized class discovery (GCD) aims to infer known and unknown categories in an unlabeled dataset leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising known classes. Existing research implicitly/explicitly assumes that the frequency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ziyun Li , Ben Dai , Furkan Simsek , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

The problem of Novel Class Discovery (NCD) consists in extracting knowledge from a labeled set of known classes to accurately partition an unlabeled set of novel classes. While NCD has recently received a lot of attention from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Colin Troisemaine , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson , Stéphane Gosselin , Vincent Lemaire , Sandrine Vaton

In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes. We exploit the peculiarities of NCD to build a new framework, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhun Zhong , Enrico Fini , Subhankar Roy , Zhiming Luo , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

This paper studies the problem of novel category discovery on single- and multi-modal data with labels from different but relevant categories. We present a generic, end-to-end framework to jointly learn a reliable representation and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xuhui Jia , Kai Han , Yukun Zhu , Bradley Green

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

Continual learning strives to ensure stability in solving previously seen tasks while demonstrating plasticity in a novel domain. Recent advances in continual learning are mostly confined to a supervised learning setting, especially in NLP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Stella Ho , Ming Liu , Shang Gao , Longxiang Gao

This paper addresses generalized category discovery (GCD), the task of clustering unlabeled data from potentially known or unknown categories with the help of labeled instances from each known category. Compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Menglin Wang , Zhun Zhong , Xiaojin Gong

A key challenge for machine intelligence is to learn new visual concepts without forgetting the previously acquired knowledge. Continual learning is aimed towards addressing this challenge. However, there is a gap between existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yan Luo , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli , Qi Zhao

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

In open-world scenarios, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires identifying both known and novel categories within unlabeled data. However, existing methods often suffer from prototype confusion caused by shortcut learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kailin Lyu , Jianwei He , Long Xiao , Jianing Zeng , Liang Fan , Lin Shu , Jie Hao

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims at learning a model that transfers the common knowledge from a class-disjoint labelled dataset to another unlabelled dataset and discovers new classes (clusters) within it. Many methods, as well as elaborate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wenbin Li , Zhichen Fan , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

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 at grouping unlabeled samples from known and unknown classes, given labeled data of known classes. To meet the recent decentralization trend in the community, we introduce a practical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Xinyuan Ji , Nicu Sebe

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) aims at inferring novel classes in an unlabeled set by leveraging prior knowledge from a labeled set with known classes. Despite its importance, there is a lack of theoretical foundations for NCD. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yiyou Sun , Zhenmei Shi , Yingyu Liang , Yixuan Li

While deep learning has achieved remarkable results on various applications, it is usually data hungry and struggles to learn over non-stationary data stream. To solve these two limits, the deep learning model should not only be able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Canyu Le , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang , Zhonggui Chen