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Continuous Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) aims to continually discover novel classes from unlabelled image sets while maintaining performance on old classes. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework, dubbed Neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

Although a number of studies are devoted to novel category discovery, most of them assume a static setting where both labeled and unlabeled data are given at once for finding new categories. In this work, we focus on the application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xinwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Yutong Feng , Zhi-Fan Wu , Xibin Zhao , Hai Wan , Mingqian Tang , Rong Jin , Yue Gao

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

In the field of continual learning, relying on so-called oracles for novelty detection is commonplace albeit unrealistic. This paper introduces CONCLAD ("COntinuous Novel CLAss Detector"), a comprehensive solution to the under-explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Amanda Rios , Ibrahima Ndiour , Parual Datta , Omesh Tickoo , Nilesh Ahuja

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

Novel Class Discovery aims to utilise prior knowledge of known classes to classify and discover unknown classes from unlabelled data. Existing NCD methods for images primarily rely on visual features, which suffer from limitations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuetong Su , Baoguo Wei , Xinyu Wang , Xu Li , Lixin Li

Existing deep learning models have achieved promising performance in recognizing skin diseases from dermoscopic images. However, these models can only recognize samples from predefined categories, when they are deployed in the clinic, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Wei Feng , Lie Ju , Lin Wang , Kaimin Song , Zongyuan Ge

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

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) is a learning paradigm, where a machine learning model is tasked to semantically group instances from unlabeled data, by utilizing labeled instances from a disjoint set of classes. In this work, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 K J Joseph , Sujoy Paul , Gaurav Aggarwal , Soma Biswas , Piyush Rai , Kai Han , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Novel class discovery (NCD) aims to infer novel categories in an unlabeled dataset leveraging prior knowledge of a labeled set comprising disjoint but related classes. Existing research focuses primarily on utilizing the labeled set at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ziyun Li , Jona Otholt , Ben Dai , Di hu , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Novel Class Discovery (NCD) aims to discover unknown and novel classes in an unlabeled set by leveraging knowledge already learned about known classes. Existing works focus on instance-level or class-level knowledge representation and build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yunquan Sun , Lizhe Qi

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

Generalized category discovery (GCD) is essential for improving deep learning models' robustness in open-world scenarios by clustering unlabeled data containing both known and novel categories. Traditional GCD methods focus on minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Luyao Tang , Kunze Huang , Chaoqi Chen , Cheng Chen

After learning a concept, humans are also able to continually generalize their learned concepts to new domains by observing only a few labeled instances without any interference with the past learned knowledge. In contrast, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , James McClelland , Praveen Pilly

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved the performance of various computer vision applications. However, discovering novel categories in an incremental learning scenario remains a challenging problem due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hyungmin Kim , Sungho Suh , Daehwan Kim , Daun Jeong , Hansang Cho , Junmo Kim

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…

In this study, we tackle Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) via a Relational Retrieval perspective, explicitly coupling labeled and unlabeled data through bidirectional knowledge transfer. While existing methods treat these sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yulin Xu , Chunqi Guo , Yuanzhen Shuai , Jianyuan Ni

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify both known and unknown categories, with only partial labels given for the known categories, posing a challenging open-set recognition problem. State-of-the-art approaches for GCD task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wei He , Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Xianbiao Qi , Rong Xiao , Chun-Guang Li

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

In this paper, we study the problem of Novel Class Discovery (NCD). NCD aims at inferring novel object categories in an unlabeled set by leveraging from prior knowledge of a labeled set containing different, but related classes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Enrico Fini , Enver Sangineto , Stéphane Lathuilière , Zhun Zhong , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci