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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

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem that requires detecting unknown objects and gradually learning the identified unknown classes. However, it cannot distinguish unknown instances as multiple unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhiheng Wu , Yue Lu , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Liwen Kang , Junzhi Yu

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabeled data containing both seen and novel categories. Although existing methods perform well on generic datasets, they struggle in fine-grained scenarios. We attribute this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Enguang Wang , Zhimao Peng , Zhengyuan Xie , Haori Lu , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu

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 novel class discovery (NCD), which aims to cluster novel classes by leveraging knowledge from disjoint known classes. While recent advances have made significant progress in this area, existing NCD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinhang Wan , Jiyuan Liu , Qian Qu , Suyuan Liu , Chuyu Zhang , Fangdi Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Kunlun He

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

The recently proposed Novel Category Discovery (NCD) adapt paradigm of transductive learning hinders its application in more real-world scenarios. In fact, few labeled data in part of new categories can well alleviate this burden, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Chunming Li , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

Traditional one-shot detection methods have addressed the closed-set problem in object detection, but the high cost of data annotation remains a critical challenge. General unsupervised methods generate pseudo boxes without category labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yichen Li , Qiankun Liu , Ying Fu

We consider the problem of discovering novel object categories in an image collection. While these images are unlabelled, we also assume prior knowledge of related but different image classes. We use such prior knowledge to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

The classification of textual data often yields important information. Most classifiers work in a closed world setting where the classifier is trained on a known corpus, and then it is tested on unseen examples that belong to one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Justin Leo , Jugal Kalita

Different from the traditional semi-supervised learning paradigm that is constrained by the close-world assumption, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) presumes that the unlabeled dataset contains new categories not appearing in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yuxun Qu , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

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

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 open-world scenarios, Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires identifying both known and novel categories within unlabeled data. However, existing methods often suffer from prototype confusion caused by shortcut learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kailin Lyu , Jianwei He , Long Xiao , Jianing Zeng , Liang Fan , Lin Shu , Jie Hao

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify a mix of known and novel categories within unlabeled data sets, providing a more realistic setting for image recognition. Essentially, GCD needs to remember existing patterns thoroughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xinzi Cao , Xiawu Zheng , Guanhong Wang , Weijiang Yu , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutong Lu , Yonghong Tian

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

On-the-fly category discovery (OCD) aims to recognize known categories while simultaneously discovering novel ones from an unlabeled online stream, using a model trained only on labeled data. Existing approaches freeze the feature extractor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanan Wu , Yuhan Yan , Tailai Chen , Zhixiang Chi , ZiZhang Wu , Yi Jin , Yang Wang , Zhenbo Li

Novel Categories Discovery (NCD) facilitates learning from a partially annotated label space and enables deep learning (DL) models to operate in an open-world setting by identifying and differentiating instances of novel classes based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zahid Hasan , Masud Ahmed , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , Nirmalya Roy

Data imbalance and open-ended distribution are two intrinsic characteristics of the real visual world. Though encouraging progress has been made in tackling each challenge separately, few works dedicated to combining them towards real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jianhong Bai , Zuozhu Liu , Hualiang Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Lianrui Mu , Xiaomeng Li , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yang Feng , Jian Wu , Haoji Hu