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Generalized category discovery (GCD) is a recently proposed open-world problem, which aims to automatically cluster partially labeled data. The main challenge is that the unlabeled data contain instances that are not only from known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe

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

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes. Training a parametric classifier solely on image features often leads to overfitting to old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lorenzo Caselli , Marco Mistretta , Simone Magistri , Andrew D. Bagdanov

We introduce the first unified framework for *Fine-Grained Domain-Generalized Generalized Category Discovery* (FG-DG-GCD), bringing open-world recognition closer to real-world deployment under domain shift. Unlike conventional GCD, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Rathore , Divyam Gupta , Moloud Abdar , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

Robust generalization beyond training distributions remains a critical challenge for deep neural networks. This is especially pronounced in medical image analysis, where data is often scarce and covariate shifts arise from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francesco Di Salvo , Sebastian Doerrich , Jonas Alle , Christian Ledig

Generalized category discovery (GCD) aims at grouping unlabeled samples from known and unknown classes, given labeled data of known classes. To meet the recent decentralization trend in the community, we introduce a practical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong , Xinyuan Ji , Nicu Sebe

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify both known and unknown categories, with only partial labels given for the known categories, posing a challenging open-set recognition problem. State-of-the-art approaches for GCD task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wei He , Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Xianbiao Qi , Rong Xiao , Chun-Guang Li

We tackle the generalized category discovery (GCD) problem, which aims to discover novel classes in unlabeled datasets by leveraging the knowledge of known classes. Previous works utilize the known class knowledge through shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chuyu Zhang , Peiyan Gu , Xueyang Yu , Xuming He

Domain generalization (DG) strives to address distribution shifts across diverse environments to enhance model's generalizability. Current DG approaches are confined to acquiring robust representations with continuous features, specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Xikun Jiang , Chenhao Ying , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo

Causality has been combined with machine learning to produce robust representations for domain generalization. Most existing methods of this type require massive data from multiple domains to identify causal features by cross-domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yang Chen , Yitao Liang , Zhouchen Lin

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization has become a primary metric for evaluating image analysis systems. Since deep learning models tend to capture domain-specific context, they often develop shortcut dependencies on these non-causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Pei , Yuguang Yang , Kexin Liu , Juan Zhang , Baochang Zhang

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) 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

In this paper, we study the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), which aims to cluster unlabeled data from both known and unknown categories using the knowledge of labeled data from known categories. Current GCD methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Haiyang Zheng , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

This paper explores a novel setting called Generalized Category Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (GCDSS), aiming to segment unlabeled images given prior knowledge from a labeled set of base classes. The unlabeled images contain pixels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhengyuan Peng , Qijian Tian , Jianqing Xu , Yizhang Jin , Xuequan Lu , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) challenges methods to identify known and novel classes using partially labeled data, mirroring human category learning. Unlike prior GCD methods, which operate within a single modality and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes

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

In this paper, we consider a real-world scenario where a model that is trained on pre-defined classes continually encounters unlabeled data that contains both known and novel classes. The goal is to continually discover novel classes while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yanan Wu , Zhixiang Chi , Yang Wang , Songhe Feng

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) seeks to uncover novel categories in unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known categories, yet prevailing visual-only pipelines and the loose coupling between supervised learning and discovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Qiang Wang , Shaokun Wang , SongLin Dong , Yihong Gong

Domain generalization (DG) is a prevalent problem in real-world applications, which aims to train well-generalized models for unseen target domains by utilizing several source domains. Since domain labels, i.e., which domain each data point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yunze Tong , Junkun Yuan , Min Zhang , Didi Zhu , Keli Zhang , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang