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In recent years, object detection in deep learning has experienced rapid development. However, most existing object detection models perform well only on closed-set datasets, ignoring a large number of potential objects whose categories are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Juexiao Feng , Yuhong Yang , Yanchun Xie , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yuchen Guo , Yuwei He , Liuyu Xiang , Guiguang Ding

Person re-identification aims to match a person's identity across multiple camera streams. Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to the challenging person re-identification task. One remarkable bottleneck is that the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Guodong Ding , Shanshan Zhang , Salman Khan , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang , Fatih Porikli

Unsupervised node representation learning aims to obtain meaningful node embeddings without relying on node labels. To achieve this, graph convolution, which aggregates information from neighboring nodes, is commonly employed to encode node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sunwoo Kim , Soo Yong Lee , Kyungho Kim , Hyunjin Hwang , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP have shown great progress in transfer learning. In the inference stage, the proper text description, also known as prompt, needs to be carefully designed to correctly classify the given images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tony Huang , Jack Chu , Fangyun Wei

In this paper, we present PARTICUL, a novel algorithm for unsupervised learning of part detectors from datasets used in fine-grained recognition. It exploits the macro-similarities of all images in the training set in order to mine for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Romain Xu-Darme , Georges Quénot , Zakaria Chihani , Marie-Christine Rousset

Semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) aims to solve the problem of generalizing to out-of-distribution data when only a few labels are available. Due to label scarcity, applying domain generalization methods often underperform.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ha Min Son , Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

Fine-grained visual classification can be addressed by deep representation learning under supervision of manually pre-defined targets (e.g., one-hot or the Hadamard codes). Such target coding schemes are less flexible to model inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Kui Jia

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

Fine-grained image recognition is a challenging computer vision problem, due to the small inter-class variations caused by highly similar subordinate categories, and the large intra-class variations in poses, scales and rotations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xiu-Shen Wei , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) is a growing field where we are given during training a labeled set of known classes and an unlabeled set of different classes that must be discovered. In recent years, many methods have been proposed to address…

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims at learning a model that transfers the common knowledge from a class-disjoint labelled dataset to another unlabelled dataset and discovers new classes (clusters) within it. Many methods, as well as elaborate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wenbin Li , Zhichen Fan , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has become a prominent approach for acquiring visual representations across various tasks, yet its application in fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR) is challenged by the intricate task of distinguishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zihu Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Scott Ricardo Figueroa Weston , Samuel Tian , Peng Li

To facilitate the re-identification (re-ID) of individual animals, existing methods primarily focus on maximizing feature similarity within the same individual and enhancing distinctiveness between different individuals. However, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jincheng Zhang , Qijun Zhao , Tie Liu

Real-world data consistently exhibits a long-tailed distribution, often spanning multiple categories. This complexity underscores the challenge of content comprehension, particularly in scenarios requiring Long-Tailed Multi-Label image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jiexuan Yan , Sheng Huang , Nankun Mu , Luwen Huangfu , Bo Liu

In many practical applications, coarse-grained labels are readily available compared to fine-grained labels that reflect subtle differences between classes. However, existing methods cannot leverage coarse labels to infer fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Matej Grcić , Artyom Gadetsky , Maria Brbić

The focus of this study is on Unsupervised Continual Learning (UCL), as it presents an alternative to Supervised Continual Learning which needs high-quality manual labeled data. The experiments under the UCL paradigm indicate a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chen Cheng , Jingkuan Song , Xiaosu Zhu , Junchen Zhu , Lianli Gao , Hengtao Shen

Ultra-fine-grained image recognition (UFGIR) categorizes objects with extremely small differences between classes, such as distinguishing between cultivars within the same species, as opposed to species-level classification in fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Edwin Arkel Rios , Femiloye Oyerinde , Min-Chun Hu , Bo-Cheng Lai

Supervised learning in large discriminative models is a mainstay for modern computer vision. Such an approach necessitates investing in large-scale human-annotated datasets for achieving state-of-the-art results. In turn, the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Liang-Chieh Chen , Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Bowen Cheng , Maxwell D. Collins , Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Hartwig Adam , Jonathon Shlens

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…