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We tackle the problem of novel class discovery, which aims to learn novel classes without supervision based on labeled data from known classes. A key challenge lies in transferring the knowledge in the known-class data to the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Peiyan Gu , Chuyu Zhang , Ruijie Xu , Xuming He

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify unlabeled samples by leveraging the base knowledge from labeled ones, where the unlabeled set consists of both base and novel classes. Since clustering methods are time-consuming at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Duo Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Linglan Zhao , Zhongqiang Zhang , Xiangzhong Fang , Weiran Huang

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

In open-world scenarios, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires identifying both known and novel categories within unlabeled data. However, existing methods often suffer from prototype confusion caused by shortcut learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kailin Lyu , Jianwei He , Long Xiao , Jianing Zeng , Liang Fan , Lin Shu , Jie Hao

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) faces the challenge of categorizing unlabeled data containing both known and novel classes, given only labels for known classes. Previous studies often treat each class independently, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fang Zhou , Zhiqiang Chen , Martin Pavlovski , Yizhong Zhang

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

Constantly discovering novel concepts is crucial in evolving environments. This paper explores the underexplored task of Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD), which aims to incrementally discover new classes from unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Shijie Ma , Fei Zhu , Zhun Zhong , Wenzhuo Liu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

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

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

Category discovery (CD) is an emerging open-world learning task, which aims at automatically categorizing unlabelled data containing instances from unseen classes, given some labelled data from seen classes. This task has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

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 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

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

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) aims to categorize unlabelled instances from both known and unknown classes by transferring knowledge from labelled data of known classes. Existing methods assume all data comes from a single domain, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongjun Wang , Po Hu , Kai Han

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) 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

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

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) faces a critical challenge: incrementally learning new classes from unlabeled data streams while preserving knowledge of old classes. Existing methods struggle with catastrophic forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan