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This paper identifies the flaws in existing open-world learning approaches and attempts to provide a complete picture in the form of \textbf{True Open-World Learning}. We accomplish this by proposing a comprehensive generalize-able…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Akshay Raj Dhamija , Touqeer Ahmad , Jonathan Schwan , Mohsen Jafarzadeh , Chunchun Li , Terrance E. Boult

In many real-world applications, test data may commonly exhibit categorical shifts, characterized by the emergence of novel classes, as well as distribution shifts arising from feature distributions different from the ones the model was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shuo Wen , Maria Brbic

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) enriches traditional object detectors by enabling continual discovery and integration of unknown objects via human guidance. However, existing OWOD approaches frequently suffer from semantic confusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anay Majee , Amitesh Gangrade , Rishabh Iyer

The findings on open-set recognition (OSR) show that models trained on classification datasets are capable of detecting unknown classes not encountered during the training process. Specifically, after training, the learned representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jaewoo Park , Hojin Park , Eunju Jeong , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR) is a crucial technology in the domains of radar and communications. Traditional AMR approaches assume a closed-set scenario, where unknown samples are forcibly misclassified into known classes, leading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Ziwei Zhang , Mengtao Zhu , Jiabin Liu , Yunjie Li , Shafei Wang

Machine Learning classifiers used in Brain-Computer Interfaces make classifications based on the distribution of data they were trained on. When they need to make inferences on samples that fall outside of this distribution, they can only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Merlijn Quincent Mulder , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Andreea Ioana Sburlea , Ivo Pascal de Jong

Open set recognition (OSR) is a critical aspect of machine learning, addressing the challenge of detecting novel classes during inference. Within the realm of deep learning, neural classifiers trained on a closed set of data typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiawen Xu , Margret Keuper

Open-set recognition systems face a neglected failure mode: high-confidence near-known unknowns, which lie outside the known label set but are close enough to known classes that a closed-set classifier accepts them with high confidence. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xi Chen , Yingjun Xiao , Gang Fang

Open-set object detection (OSOD) aims to detect the known categories and reject unknown objects in a dynamic world, which has achieved significant attention. However, previous approaches only consider this problem in data-abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Binyi Su , Hua Zhang , Jingzhi Li , Zhong Zhou

In open-world learning, an agent starts with a set of known classes, detects, and manages things that it does not know, and learns them over time from a non-stationary stream of data. Open-world learning is related to but also distinct from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohsen Jafarzadeh , Akshay Raj Dhamija , Steve Cruz , Chunchun Li , Touqeer Ahmad , Terrance E. Boult

Most of the existing recognition algorithms are proposed for closed set scenarios, where all categories are known beforehand. However, in practice, recognition is essentially an open set problem. There are categories we know called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yu Shu , Yemin Shi , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Substantial progress has been made in various techniques for open-world recognition. Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods can effectively distinguish between known and unknown classes in the data, while incremental learning enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou , Zhuo Xu , Jing Ma , Jiaxin Dai , Yifan Liang , Hanlin Li

Machine learning methods must be trusted to make appropriate decisions in real-world environments, even when faced with out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Many current approaches simply aim to detect OOD examples and alert the user when an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Randolph Linderman , Jingyang Zhang , Nathan Inkawhich , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Land cover classification of satellite imagery is an important step toward analyzing the Earth's surface. Existing models assume a closed-set setting where both the training and testing classes belong to the same label set. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Razieh Kaviani Baghbaderani , Ying Qu , Hairong Qi , Craig Stutts

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong generalization capabilities, enabling them to recognize a wide range of objects across diverse domains without additional training. However, they often retain irrelevant information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Kodai Kawamura , Yuta Goto , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Go Irie

Current hyperspectral image classification assumes that a predefined classification system is closed and complete, and there are no unknown or novel classes in the unseen data. However, this assumption may be too strict for the real world.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shengjie Liu , Qian Shi , Liangpei Zhang

Machine learning models have been widely applied for material property prediction. However, practical application of these models can be hindered by a lack of information about how well they will perform on previously unseen types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Gihan Panapitiya , Emily Saldanha

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and uncertainty estimation (UE) are critical components for building safe machine learning systems, especially in real-world scenarios where unexpected inputs are inevitable. However the two problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Pirzada Suhail , Rehna Afroz , Gouranga Bala , Amit Sethi

State-of-the-art Object Detection (OD) methods predominantly operate under a closed-world assumption, where test-time categories match those encountered during training. However, detecting and localizing unknown objects is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Daniel Montoya , Aymen Bouguerra , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Fabio Arnez

If an unknown example that is not seen during training appears, most recognition systems usually produce overgeneralized results and determine that the example belongs to one of the known classes. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jaeyeon Jang , Chang Ouk Kim