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We tackle the issue of generalized category discovery (GCD). GCD considers the open-world problem of automatically clustering a partially labelled dataset, in which the unlabelled data may contain instances from both novel categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

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

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) 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) 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 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

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) aims to classify both base and novel images using labeled base data. However, current approaches inadequately address the intrinsic optimization of the co-occurrence matrix $\bar{A}$ based on cosine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhong Ji , Shuo Yang , Jingren Liu , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) requires identifying novel classes from unlabeled data while retaining knowledge of known classes over time. Existing methods typically update classifier weights dynamically, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , SongLin Dong , Yuhang He , Shaokun Wang , Qiang Wang , Yihong Gong

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

Domain generalization (DG) aims to improve the generalizability of computer vision models toward distribution shifts. The mainstream DG methods focus on learning domain invariance, however, such methods overlook the potential inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Chenhao Ying , Yunhai Tong , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo , Dacheng Tao

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) 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) 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

We address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD) in this paper, i.e. clustering the unlabeled images leveraging the information from a set of seen classes, where the unlabeled images could contain both seen classes and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixin Fei , Zhongkai Zhao , Siwei Yang , Bingchen Zhao

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an intriguing open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention. Given a dataset that includes both labelled and unlabelled images, GCD aims to categorize all images in the unlabelled subset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yuanpei Liu , Zhenqi He , Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize unlabeled images from known and novel classes by distinguishing novel classes from known ones, while also transferring knowledge from another set of labeled images with known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qiyuan Dai , Hanzhuo Huang , Yu Wu , Sibei Yang

In Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), we cluster unlabeled samples of known and novel classes, leveraging a training dataset of known classes. A salient challenge arises due to domain shifts between these datasets. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sai Bhargav Rongali , Sarthak Mehrotra , Ankit Jha , Mohamad Hassan N C , Shirsha Bose , Tanisha Gupta , Mainak Singha , 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…