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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

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 classify inputs into both known and novel categories, a task crucial for open-world scientific discoveries. However, current GCD methods are limited to unimodal data, overlooking the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yuchang Su , Renping Zhou , Siyu Huang , Xingjian Li , Tianyang Wang , Ziyue Wang , Min Xu

This paper addresses the problem of Rehearsal-Free Continual Category Discovery (RF-CCD), which focuses on continuously identifying novel class by leveraging knowledge from labeled data. Existing methods typically train from scratch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chuyu Zhang , Xueyang Yu , Peiyan Gu , Xuming He

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) 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

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

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

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

Deep learning has shown its human-level performance in various applications. However, current deep learning models are characterised by catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge when learning new classes. This poses a challenge particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yang Yang , Zhiying Cui , Junjie Xu , Changhong Zhong , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruixuan Wang

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation focuses on the exploration of a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data, which is more in line with the demands of real-world image understanding applications. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bo Dang , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang , Jiayi Ma

While existing Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) models have achieved significant success, their performance with limited labeled samples and a small number of known categories remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yunhan Ren , Feng Luo , Siyu Huang

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to recognize both known and novel categories from a set of unlabeled data, based on another dataset labeled with only known categories. Without considering differences between known and novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Qinghua Zheng , Wei Ding , QianYing Wang , Ping Chen

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) seeks to identify novel categories from unlabeled data while retaining the classification ability of seen categories. Prior GCD methods commonly leverage transferable representations from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bo Ye , Kai Gan , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

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

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

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

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

This paper investigates the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD). Given a partially labelled dataset, GCD aims to categorize all unlabelled images, regardless of whether they belong to known or unknown classes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han