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A desirable open world recognition (OWR) system requires performing three tasks: (1) Open set recognition (OSR), i.e., classifying the known (classes seen during training) and rejecting the unknown (unseen$/$novel classes) online; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fulin Gao , Weimin Zhong , Zhixing Cao , Xin Peng , Zhi Li

Human perceptual systems excel at inducing and recognizing objects across both known and novel categories, a capability far beyond current machine learning frameworks. While generalized category discovery (GCD) aims to bridge this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Luyao Tang , Kunze Huang , Chaoqi Chen , Yuxuan Yuan , Chenxin Li , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a challenging task in which, given a partially labelled dataset, models must categorize all unlabelled instances, regardless of whether they come from labelled categories or from new ones. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hongjun Wang , Sagar Vaze , Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data from both known and unknown categories by leveraging knowledge from labeled known categories. While existing methods have made notable progress, they often overlook a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Qiyu Xu , Zhanxuan Hu , Yu Duan , Ercheng Pei , Yonghang Tai

Generalized Continual Category Discovery (GCCD) tackles learning from sequentially arriving, partially labeled datasets while uncovering new categories. Traditional methods depend on feature distillation to prevent forgetting the old…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Grzegorz Rypeść , Daniel Marczak , Sebastian Cygert , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

In this paper, we consider a highly general image recognition setting wherein, given a labelled and unlabelled set of images, the task is to categorize all images in the unlabelled set. Here, the unlabelled images may come from labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sagar Vaze , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires a model to both classify known categories and cluster unknown categories in unlabeled data. Prior methods leveraged self-supervised pre-training combined with supervised fine-tuning on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rabah Ouldnoughi , Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an emerging and challenging open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Most existing GCD methods focus on discovering categories in static images. However, relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhang Jing , Pu Nan , Xie Yu Xiang , Guo Yanming , Lu Qianqi , Zou Shiwei , Yan Jie , Chen Yan

We introduce the first unified framework for *Fine-Grained Domain-Generalized Generalized Category Discovery* (FG-DG-GCD), bringing open-world recognition closer to real-world deployment under domain shift. Unlike conventional GCD, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Rathore , Divyam Gupta , Moloud Abdar , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

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…

Generalized class discovery (GCD) aims to infer known and unknown categories in an unlabeled dataset leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising known classes. Existing research implicitly/explicitly assumes that the frequency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ziyun Li , Ben Dai , Furkan Simsek , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a classification task that aims to classify both base and novel classes in unlabeled images, using knowledge from a labeled dataset. In GCD, previous research overlooks scene information or treats it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhengyuan Peng , Jinpeng Ma , Zhimin Sun , Ran Yi , Haichuan Song , Xin Tan , Lizhuang Ma

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify both known and novel categories using partially labeled data that contains only known classes. Despite achieving strong performance on existing benchmarks, current textual GCD methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yi Luo , Qiwen Wang , Junqi Yang , Luyao Tang , Zhenghao Lin , Zhenzhe Ying , Weiqiang Wang , Chen Lin

Generalized category discovery~(GCD) seeks to jointly identify both known and novel categories in unlabeled data. While prior works have mainly focused on RGB images, their assumptions and modeling strategies do not generalize well to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Aleksandra Pizurica

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) seeks to uncover novel categories in unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known categories, yet prevailing visual-only pipelines and the loose coupling between supervised learning and discovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Qiang Wang , Shaokun Wang , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify inputs into both known and novel categories, a task crucial for open-world scientific discoveries. However, current GCD methods are limited to unimodal data, overlooking the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yuchang Su , Renping Zhou , Siyu Huang , Xingjian Li , Tianyang Wang , Ziyue Wang , Min Xu

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a practical and challenging open-world task that aims to recognize both known and novel categories in unlabeled data using limited labeled data from known categories. Due to the lack of supervision,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Henry Peng Zou , Siffi Singh , Yi Nian , Jianfeng He , Jason Cai , Saab Mansour , Hang Su