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Image clustering is a classic problem in computer vision, which categorizes images into different groups. Recent studies utilize nouns as external semantic knowledge to improve clustering performance. However, these methods often overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Shuo Wang , Kesen Zhao , Hanwang Zhang

Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

Language-Assisted Image Clustering (LAIC) augments the input images with additional texts with the help of vision-language models (VLMs) to promote clustering performance. Despite recent progress, existing LAIC methods often overlook two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jun Ma , Xu Zhang , Zhengxing Jiao , Yaxin Hou , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Yuheng Jia

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

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

Traditional image clustering techniques only find a single grouping within visual data. In particular, they do not provide a possibility to explicitly define multiple types of clustering. This work explores the potential of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Andreas Stephan , Lukas Miklautz , Collin Leiber , Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo , Dominik Répás , Claudia Plant , Benjamin Roth

During the past decade breakthroughs in GPU hardware and deep neural networks technologies have revolutionized the field of computer vision, making image analytical potentials accessible to a range of real-world applications. Technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Haozhen Zhao , Fusheng Wei , Hilary Quatinetz , Han Qin , Adam Dabrowski

Image clustering aims to group images in an unsupervised fashion. Traditional methods focus on knowledge from visual space, making it difficult to distinguish between visually similar but semantically different classes. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yijie Zhong , Yunfan Gao , Weipeng Jiang , Haofen Wang

Image clustering divides a collection of images into meaningful groups, typically interpreted post-hoc via human-given annotations. Those are usually in the form of text, begging the question of using text as an abstraction for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Andreas Stephan , Lukas Miklautz , Kevin Sidak , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Claudia Plant , Benjamin Roth

Classical clustering methods do not provide users with direct control of the clustering results, and the clustering results may not be consistent with the relevant criterion that a user has in mind. In this work, we present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Sehyun Kwon , Jaeseung Park , Minkyu Kim , Jaewoong Cho , Ernest K. Ryu , Kangwook Lee

Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabeled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bingchen Zhao , Oisin Mac Aodha

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

We propose to bridge the gap between semi-supervised and unsupervised image recognition with a flexible method that performs well for both generalized category discovery (GCD) and image clustering. Despite the overlap in motivation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Gihan Jayatilaka , Abhinav Shrivastava , Matthew Gwilliam

Image clustering is a particularly challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate annotations without human supervision. Recent advances focus on the use of self-supervised learning strategies in image clustering, by first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Foivos Ntelemis , Yaochu Jin , Spencer A. Thomas

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

Image clustering is to group a set of images into disjoint clusters in a way that images in the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in other clusters, which is an unsupervised or semi-supervised learning process. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Bo Dong , Xinnian Wang

With the advancement in image capturing device, the image data been generated at high volume. If images are analyzed properly, they can reveal useful information to the human users. Content based image retrieval address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Sanjay Silakari , Mahesh Motwani , Manish Maheshwari

In the face of complex natural images, existing deep clustering algorithms fall significantly short in terms of clustering accuracy when compared to supervised classification methods, making them less practical. This paper introduces an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Liheng Hu , Sijin Wang

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze
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