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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

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

3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to group all points into different semantic categories, which benefits important applications such as point cloud scene reconstruction and understanding. Existing supervised point cloud semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Canyu Zhang , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Ziyu Zhao , Song Wang

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

In this paper, we address the problem of novel class discovery (NCD), which aims to cluster novel classes by leveraging knowledge from disjoint known classes. While recent advances have made significant progress in this area, existing NCD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinhang Wan , Jiyuan Liu , Qian Qu , Suyuan Liu , Chuyu Zhang , Fangdi Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Kunlun He

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is a challenging topic in the computer vision field. Most of the existing methods in literature require a large amount of fully labeled training data, but it is extremely time-consuming to obtain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuang Deng , Qiulei Dong , Bo Liu , Zhanyi Hu

In this paper, we study the problem of Novel Class Discovery (NCD). NCD aims at inferring novel object categories in an unlabeled set by leveraging from prior knowledge of a labeled set containing different, but related classes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Enrico Fini , Enver Sangineto , Stéphane Lathuilière , Zhun Zhong , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci

In Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the goal is to find new classes in an unlabeled set given a labeled set of known but different classes. While NCD has recently gained attention from the community, no framework has yet been proposed for…

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks for environmental understanding. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the performance of classes with few examples or few points is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Shoumeng Qiu , Feng Jiang , Haiqiang Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

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

Semantic segmentation of point clouds usually requires exhausting efforts of human annotations, hence it attracts wide attention to the challenging topic of learning from unlabeled or weaker forms of annotations. In this paper, we take the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zisheng Chen , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Zhipeng Zhou , Haihong Xiao , Baigui Sun , Xuansong Xie , Wenxiong Kang

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

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) aims to discover unknown and novel classes in an unlabeled set by leveraging knowledge already learned about known classes. Existing works focus on instance-level or class-level knowledge representation and build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yunquan Sun , Lizhe Qi

While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated outstanding results in numerous domains, some important functionalities are missing. Resolution scalability is one of them. In this work, we introduce a novel architecture, dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Remco Royen , Adrian Munteanu

Point-cloud semantic segmentation underpins a wide range of critical applications. Although recent deep architectures and large-scale datasets have driven impressive closed-set performance, these models struggle to recognize or properly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wang Fang , Shirin Rahimi , Olivia Bennett , Sophie Carter , Mitra Hassani , Xu Lan , Omid Javadi , Lucas Mitchell

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a crucial task in 3D scene understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on employing a large number of annotated labels for supervised semantic segmentation. Nonetheless, manually labeling such large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingmei Cheng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

In recent years there has been significant progress in the field of 3D learning on classification, detection and segmentation problems. The vast majority of the existing studies focus on canonical closed-set conditions, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Antonio Alliegro , Francesco Cappio Borlino , Tatiana Tommasi

Semantic segmentation is an important and well-known task in the field of computer vision, in which we attempt to assign a corresponding semantic class to each input element. When it comes to semantic segmentation of 2D images, the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ivan Martinović