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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

We consider the unsupervised learning problem of assigning labels to unlabeled data. A naive approach is to use clustering methods, but this works well only when data is properly clustered and each cluster corresponds to an underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Marthinus Christoffel du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

In this paper, we are concerned with image classification with deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We focus on the following question: given a set of candidate CNN models, how to select the right one with the best generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Bin Liu

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify instances from both known and novel categories within a large-scale unlabeled dataset, a critical yet challenging task for real-world, open-world applications. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wenwen Liao , Hang Ruan , Jianbo Yu , Yuansong Wang , Qingchao Jiang , Xiaofeng Yang

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims to infer novel categories in an unlabeled dataset leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising disjoint but related classes. Existing research focuses primarily on utilizing the labeled set at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ziyun Li , Jona Otholt , Ben Dai , Di hu , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Given unlabelled datasets containing both old and new categories, generalized category discovery (GCD) aims to accurately discover new classes while correctly classifying old classes. Current GCD methods only use a single visual modality of…

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

We present a discriminative clustering approach in which the feature representation can be learned from data and moreover leverage labeled data. Representation learning can give a similarity-based clustering method the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-21 Corinne Jones , Vincent Roulet , Zaid Harchaoui

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) challenges methods to identify known and novel classes using partially labeled data, mirroring human category learning. Unlike prior GCD methods, which operate within a single modality and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes

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

This paper investigates the problem of image classification with limited or no annotations, but abundant unlabeled data. The setting exists in many tasks such as semi-supervised image classification, image clustering, and image retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

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

While deep learning strategies achieve outstanding results in computer vision tasks, one issue remains: The current strategies rely heavily on a huge amount of labeled data. In many real-world problems, it is not feasible to create such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Lars Schmarje , Monty Santarossa , Simon-Martin Schröder , Reinhard Koch

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize both known and novel categories from a set of unlabeled data, based on another dataset labeled with only known categories. Without considering differences between known and novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Qinghua Zheng , Wei Ding , QianYing Wang , Ping Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning while preserving data privacy, making it ideal for sensitive applications where data cannot be shared. While FL has been widely studied in supervised contexts, its application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mirko Nardi , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella

This work addresses the task of generalized class discovery (GCD) in instance segmentation. The goal is to discover novel classes and obtain a model capable of segmenting instances of both known and novel categories, given labeled and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Cuong Manh Hoang , Yeejin Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an emerging and challenging open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Most existing GCD methods focus on discovering categories in static images. However, relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhang Jing , Pu Nan , Xie Yu Xiang , Guo Yanming , Lu Qianqi , Zou Shiwei , Yan Jie , Chen Yan

Given a large unlabeled set of images, how to efficiently and effectively group them into clusters based on extracted visual representations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Wen Lin

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

The recent advances in representation learning inspire us to take on the challenging problem of unsupervised image classification tasks in a principled way. We propose ContraCluster, an unsupervised image classification method that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Seongho Joe , Byoungjip Kim , Hoyoung Kang , Kyoungwon Park , Bogun Kim , Jaeseon Park , Joonseok Lee , Youngjune Gwon