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Continuous category discovery (CCD) aims to automatically discover novel categories in continuously arriving unlabeled data. This is a challenging problem considering that there is no number of categories and labels in the newly arrived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ruobing Jiang , Yang Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu , Chunyang Wang

Despite the recent advances in the field of object detection, common architectures are still ill-suited to incrementally detect new categories over time. They are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting: they forget what has been already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Fabio Cermelli , Antonino Geraci , Dario Fontanel , Barbara Caputo

Existing Incremental Object Detection (IOD) methods partially alleviate catastrophic forgetting when incrementally detecting new objects in real-world scenarios. However, many of these methods rely on the assumption that unlabeled old-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zijia An , Boyu Diao , Libo Huang , Ruiqi Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

This paper investigates the problem of class-incremental object detection for agricultural applications where a model needs to learn new plant species and diseases incrementally without forgetting the previously learned ones. We adapt two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mathieu Pagé Fortin

3D object detection has achieved significant performance in many fields, e.g., robotics system, autonomous driving, and augmented reality. However, most existing methods could cause catastrophic forgetting of old classes when performing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenqi Liang , Gan Sun , Chenxi Liu , Jiahua Dong , Kangru Wang

Current methods for incremental object detection (IOD) primarily rely on Faster R-CNN or DETR series detectors; however, these approaches do not accommodate the real-time YOLO detection frameworks. In this paper, we first identify three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Shizhou Zhang , Xueqiang Lv , Yinghui Xing , Qirui Wu , Di Xu , Chen Zhao , Yanning Zhang

Automated driving object detection has always been a challenging task in computer vision due to environmental uncertainties. These uncertainties include significant differences in object sizes and encountering the class unseen. It may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zezhou Wang , Guitao Cao , Xidong Xi , Jiangtao Wang

In real applications, new object classes often emerge after the detection model has been trained on a prepared dataset with fixed classes. Due to the storage burden and the privacy of old data, sometimes it is impractical to train the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou , Weiping Wang

Improving object detectors against occlusion, blur and noise is a critical step to deploy detectors in real applications. Since it is not possible to exhaust all image defects through data collection, many researchers seek to generate hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zeyi Huang , Wei Ke , Dong Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often suffer from "catastrophic forgetting" during incremental learning (IL) --- an abrupt degradation of performance on the original set of classes when the training objective is adapted to a newly added set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Junting Zhang , Jie Zhang , Shalini Ghosh , Dawei Li , Serafettin Tasci , Larry Heck , Heming Zhang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Transformer networks have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, leveraging a variety of architectural innovations, including residual connections. However, traditional residual connections, which simply sum the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mike Heddes , Adel Javanmard , Kyriakos Axiotis , Gang Fu , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

Deep learning models generally display catastrophic forgetting when learning new data continuously. Many incremental learning approaches address this problem by reusing data from previous tasks while learning new tasks. However, the direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Young Jo Choi , Min Kyoon Yoo , Yu Rang Park

Real-world object detection systems, such as those in autonomous driving and surveillance, must continuously learn new object categories and simultaneously adapt to changing environmental conditions. Existing approaches, Class Incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Munish Monga , Vishal Chudasama , Pankaj Wasnik , Biplab Banerjee

Object detection has seen tremendous progress in recent years. However, current algorithms don't generalize well when tested on diverse data distributions. We address the problem of incremental learning in object detection on the India…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Prajjwal Bhargava

Accurate image segmentation remains challenging, particularly in generating sharp, confident boundaries. While modern architectures have advanced the field, many of them still rely on standard loss functions like Cross-Entropy and Dice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Adam Dawid Sztamborski , Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Antonio Agudo

Knowledge amalgamation (KA) is a novel deep model reusing task aiming to transfer knowledge from several well-trained teachers to a multi-talented and compact student. Currently, most of these approaches are tailored for convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haofei Zhang , Feng Mao , Mengqi Xue , Gongfan Fang , Zunlei Feng , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been applied in class incremental learning, which aims to solve common real-world problems of learning new classes continually. One drawback of standard DNNs is that they are prone to catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Bowen Zhao , Xi Xiao , Guojun Gan , Bin Zhang , Shutao Xia

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models become available over time. However, neural network models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

A fundamental requirement for intelligent systems is the ability to learn continuously under changing environments. However, models trained in this regime often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Leveraging pre-trained models has recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tung Tran , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas , Khoat Than

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across a wide range of vision language tasks. However, when applied to large scale image classification, their performance degrades significantly as the label…

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