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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

In spite of remarkable success of the convolutional neural networks on semantic segmentation, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting: a significant performance drop for the already learned classes when new classes are added on the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Onur Tasar , Yuliya Tarabalka , Pierre Alliez

The state of the art in semantic segmentation is steadily increasing in performance, resulting in more precise and reliable segmentations in many different applications. However, progress is limited by the cost of generating labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Viktor Olsson , Wilhelm Tranheden , Juliano Pinto , Lennart Svensson

This paper studies continual learning (CL) of a sequence of aspect sentiment classification(ASC) tasks in a particular CL setting called domain incremental learning (DIL). Each task is from a different domain or product. The DIL setting is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Hu Xu , Lei Shu

Invariance learning methods aim to learn invariant features in the hope that they generalize under distributional shifts. Although many tasks are naturally characterized by continuous domains, current invariance learning techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yong Lin , Fan Zhou , Lu Tan , Lintao Ma , Jiameng Liu , Yansu He , Yuan Yuan , Yu Liu , James Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Hao Wang

Deep models, e.g., CNNs and Vision Transformers, have achieved impressive achievements in many vision tasks in the closed world. However, novel classes emerge from time to time in our ever-changing world, requiring a learning system to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Da-Wei Zhou , Qi-Wei Wang , Zhi-Hong Qi , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently brought a new wave of research in the field of computer vision. These models have performed particularly well in image classification and segmentation. Research on semantic and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Most continual segmentation methods tackle the problem as a per-pixel classification task. However, such a paradigm is very challenging, and we find query-based segmenters with built-in objectness have inherent advantages compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yizheng Gong , Siyue Yu , Xiaoyang Wang , Jimin Xiao

Prompt-tuning methods for Continual Learning (CL) freeze a large pre-trained model and train a few parameter vectors termed prompts. Most of these methods organize these vectors in a pool of key-value pairs and use the input image as query…

Depth estimation and scene segmentation are two important tasks in intelligent transportation systems. A joint modeling of these two tasks will reduce the requirement for both the storage and training efforts. This work explores how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tiancong Cheng , Ying Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Roger Zimmermann , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo

This paper proposes a new active learning method for semantic segmentation. The core of our method lies in a new annotation query design. It samples informative local image regions (e.g., superpixels), and for each of such regions, asks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sehyun Hwang , Sohyun Lee , Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

In class-incremental semantic segmentation (CISS), deep learning architectures suffer from the critical problems of catastrophic forgetting and semantic background shift. Although recent works focused on these issues, existing classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dipam Goswami , René Schuster , Joost van de Weijer , Didier Stricker

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has made a remarkable breakthrough in open-vocabulary zero-shot image recognition. Many recent studies leverage the pre-trained CLIP models for image-level classification and manipulation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Chong Zhou , Chen Change Loy , Bo Dai

Text clustering, as one of the most fundamental challenges in unsupervised learning, aims at grouping semantically similar text segments without relying on human annotations. With the rapid development of deep learning, deep clustering has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Mingjun Zhao , Mengzhen Wang , Yinglong Ma , Di Niu , Haijiang Wu

Post-training endows pretrained LLMs with a variety of desirable skills, including instruction-following, reasoning, and others. However, these post-trained LLMs only encode knowledge up to a cut-off date, necessitating continual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shankar Padmanabhan , Mustafa Omer Gul , Tanya Goyal

Class incremental medical image segmentation (CIMIS) aims to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while learning new ones without relying on old-class labels. However, existing methods 1) either adopt one-size-fits-all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shengqian Zhu , Chengrong Yu , Qiang Wang , Ying Song , Guangjun Li , Jiafei Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Zhang Yi , Junjie Hu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) enables models to continuously integrate new knowledge while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Driven by the remarkable generalization of CLIP, leveraging pre-trained vision-language models has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Sun , Zi-Jun Ding , Da-Wei Zhou

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks for environmental understanding. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the performance of classes with few examples or few points is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Shoumeng Qiu , Feng Jiang , Haiqiang Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Incremental brain tumor segmentation is critical for models that must adapt to evolving clinical datasets without retraining on all prior data. However, catastrophic forgetting, where models lose previously acquired knowledge, remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Sashank Makanaboyina

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially acquire knowledge of new classes without forgetting previously learned ones. Despite recent progress, current CIL methods still exhibit significant performance gaps compared to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zihuan Qiu , Yi Xu , Fanman Meng , Runtong Zhang , Linfeng Xu , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li