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Generalized category discovery (GCD) aims at grouping unlabeled samples from known and unknown classes, given labeled data of known classes. To meet the recent decentralization trend in the community, we introduce a practical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Xinyuan Ji , Nicu Sebe

Generalized category discovery (GCD) aims at addressing a more realistic and challenging setting of semi-supervised learning, where only part of the category labels are assigned to certain training samples. Previous methods generally employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuanpeng Tu , Zhun Zhong , Yuxi Li , Hengshuang Zhao

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) focuses on classifying known categories while simultaneously discovering novel categories from unlabeled data. However, previous GCD methods face challenges due to inconsistent optimization objectives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jizhou Han , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

We explore the problem of Incremental Generalized Category Discovery (IGCD). This is a challenging category incremental learning setting where the goal is to develop models that can correctly categorize images from previously seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Bingchen Zhao , Oisin Mac Aodha

In novel class discovery (NCD), we are given labeled data from seen classes and unlabeled data from unseen classes, and we train clustering models for the unseen classes. However, the implicit assumptions behind NCD are still unclear. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haoang Chi , Feng Liu , Bo Han , Wenjing Yang , Long Lan , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) tackles the challenging problem of categorizing unlabeled images into both known and novel classes within a partially labeled dataset, without prior knowledge of the number of unknown categories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mingfu Yan , Jiancheng Huang , Yifan Liu , Shifeng Chen

In this paper, we study the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), which aims to cluster unlabeled data from both known and unknown categories using the knowledge of labeled data from known categories. Current GCD methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

In this paper, we address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD), \ie, given a set of images where part of them are labelled and the rest are not, the task is to automatically cluster the images in the unlabelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bingchen Zhao , Xin Wen , Kai Han

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes. Training a parametric classifier solely on image features often leads to overfitting to old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lorenzo Caselli , Marco Mistretta , Simone Magistri , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Continual Novel Class Discovery (CNCD) aims to continually discover novel classes without labels while maintaining the recognition capability for previously learned classes. The main challenges faced by CNCD include the feature-discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yifan Yu , Shaokun Wang , Yuhang He , Junzhe Chen , Yihong Gong

Recent advancements have shown promise in applying traditional Semi-Supervised Learning strategies to the task of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD). Typically, this involves a teacher-student framework in which the teacher imparts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haonan Lin , Wenbin An , Jiahao Wang , Yan Chen , Feng Tian , Mengmeng Wang , Guang Dai , Qianying Wang , Jingdong Wang

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

This paper addresses the problem of Rehearsal-Free Continual Category Discovery (RF-CCD), which focuses on continuously identifying novel class by leveraging knowledge from labeled data. Existing methods typically train from scratch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chuyu Zhang , Xueyang Yu , Peiyan Gu , Xuming He

We introduce a novel task, Generalized Facial Expression Category Discovery (G-FACE), that discovers new, unseen facial expressions while recognizing known categories effectively. Even though there are generalized category discovery methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Tingzhang Luo , Yichao Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Andi Zhang , Xin Wang , Yibing Zhan , Chang Tang , Leyuan Liu , Zhe Chen

This paper introduces a novel approach to Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) by leveraging the concept of contextuality to enhance the identification and classification of categories in unlabeled datasets. Drawing inspiration from human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tingzhang Luo , Mingxuan Du , Jiatao Shi , Xinxiang Chen , Bingchen Zhao , Shaoguang Huang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an open-world problem that clusters unlabeled data by leveraging knowledge from partially labeled categories. A key challenge is that unlabeled data may contain both known and novel categories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

This paper addresses generalized category discovery (GCD), the task of clustering unlabeled data from potentially known or unknown categories with the help of labeled instances from each known category. Compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Menglin Wang , Zhun Zhong , Xiaojin Gong

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is an important and challenging task in open-world learning. Specifically, given some labeled data of known classes, GCD aims to cluster unlabeled data that contain both known and unknown classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhimao Peng , Enguang Wang , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Generalized Class Discovery (GCD) plays a pivotal role in discerning both known and unknown categories from unlabeled datasets by harnessing the insights derived from a labeled set comprising recognized classes. A significant limitation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziyun Li , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang