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Traditional semi-supervised learning tasks assume that both labeled and unlabeled data follow the same class distribution, but the realistic open-world scenarios are of more complexity with unknown novel classes mixed in the unlabeled set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiaming Liu , Yangqiming Wang , Tongze Zhang , Yulu Fan , Qinli Yang , Junming Shao

Fine-grained recognition is challenging due to its subtle local inter-class differences versus large intra-class variations such as poses. A key to address this problem is to localize discriminative parts to extract pose-invariant features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Xiao Liu , Tian Xia , Jiang Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zhou , Yuanqing Lin

Fine-Grained Visual Classification(FGVC) is the task that requires recognizing the objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories of a super-category. Recent state-of-the-art methods usually design sophisticated learning pipelines to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qishuai Diao , Yi Jiang , Bin Wen , Jia Sun , Zehuan Yuan

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize unlabeled images from known and novel classes by distinguishing novel classes from known ones, while also transferring knowledge from another set of labeled images with known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qiyuan Dai , Hanzhuo Huang , Yu Wu , Sibei Yang

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is an important but challenging task due to high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances caused by deformation, occlusion, illumination, etc. An attention convolutional binary neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruyi Ji , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang , Dawei Du , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Feiyue Huang

Different from large-scale classification tasks, fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task due to two critical problems: 1) evident intra-class variances and subtle inter-class differences, and 2) overfitting owing to fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hang Yao , Qiguang Miao , Peipei Zhao , Chaoneng Li , Xin Li , Guanwen Feng , Ruyi Liu

Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories in each basic-level category. Existing methods employ discriminative localization to find the key distinctions among subcategories. However, they generally have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Junjie Zhao

Few-shot fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to leverage limited data to enable models to discriminate subtly distinct categories. Recent works mostly finetuned the pre-trained visual language models to achieve performance gain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hongyu Guo , Xiangzhao Hao , Jiarui Guo , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) involves identifying new categories within unlabeled data by utilizing knowledge acquired from previously established categories. However, existing NCD methods often struggle to maintain a balance between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yue Hou , Xueyuan Chen , He Zhu , Romei Liu , Bowen Shi , Jiaheng Liu , Junran Wu , Ke Xu

In this paper, we focus on Novel Class Discovery for Point Cloud Segmentation (3D-NCD), aiming to learn a model that can segment unlabeled (novel) 3D classes using only the supervision from labeled (base) 3D classes. The key to this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Fine-grained 3D shape classification is important for shape understanding and analysis, which poses a challenging research problem. However, the studies on the fine-grained 3D shape classification have rarely been explored, due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task that recognizes the sub-classes belonging to the same meta-class. Large inter-class similarity and intra-class variance is the main challenge of this task. Most exiting methods try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Dongliang Chang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Ruoyi Du , Kongming Liang

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

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) has yielded promising results, the more realistic SSL scenario remains to be explored, in which the unlabeled data exhibits extremely high recognition difficulty, e.g., fine-grained visual classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yue Duan , Zhen Zhao , Lei Qi , Luping Zhou , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi

Fine-grained Visual Recognition (FGVR) involves distinguishing between visually similar categories, which is inherently challenging due to subtle inter-class differences and the need for large, expert-annotated datasets. In domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Text recognition in the wild is an important technique for digital maps and urban scene understanding, in which the natural resembling properties between glyphs is one of the major reasons that lead to wrong recognition results. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fares Bougourzi , Fadi Dornaika , Chongsheng Zhang

Node classification on graphs is of great importance in many applications. Due to the limited labeling capability and evolution in real-world open scenarios, novel classes can emerge on unlabeled testing nodes. However, little attention has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yucheng Jin , Yun Xiong , Juncheng Fang , Xixi Wu , Dongxiao He , Xing Jia , Bingchen Zhao , Philip Yu

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data containing both seen and novel categories. Although existing methods perform well on generic datasets, they struggle in fine-grained scenarios. We attribute this…

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

Given a model well-trained with a large-scale base dataset, Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims at incrementally learning novel classes from a few labeled samples by avoiding overfitting, without catastrophically forgetting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yawen Cui , Wanxia Deng , Haoyu Chen , Li Liu