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Recent developments for Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) have shown the promise of leveraging unlabeled data to improve an object detector. However, thus far these methods have assumed that the unlabeled data does not contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Xiaoliang Dai , Junjiao Tian , Peter Vajda , Zijian He , Zsolt Kira

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify unlabeled samples by leveraging the base knowledge from labeled ones, where the unlabeled set consists of both base and novel classes. Since clustering methods are time-consuming at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Duo Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Linglan Zhao , Zhongqiang Zhang , Xiangzhong Fang , Weiran Huang

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng

Retinal image registration, particularly for color fundus images, is a challenging yet essential task with diverse clinical applications. Existing registration methods for color fundus images typically rely on keypoints and descriptors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Rivas-Villar , Álvaro S. Hervella , José Rouco , Jorge Novo

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

This paper tackles the purely unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) problem that requires no annotations. Some previous methods adopt clustering techniques to generate pseudo labels and use the produced labels to train Re-ID models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Menglin Wang , Baisheng Lai , Jianqiang Huang , Xiaojin Gong , Xian-Sheng Hua

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) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

Object detection is an essential and fundamental task in computer vision and satellite image processing. Existing deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance thanks to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

While supervised techniques in re-identification are extremely effective, the need for large amounts of annotations makes them impractical for large camera networks. One-shot re-identification, which uses a singular labeled tracklet for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Dripta S. Raychaudhuri , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

In this work, we introduce LEAD, an approach to discover landmarks from an unannotated collection of category-specific images. Existing works in self-supervised landmark detection are based on learning dense (pixel-level) feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Tejan Karmali , Abhinav Atrishi , Sai Sree Harsha , Susmit Agrawal , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

Several unsupervised and self-supervised approaches have been developed in recent years to learn visual features from large-scale unlabeled datasets. Their main drawback however is that these methods are hardly able to recognize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Alessandra Alfani , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

In recent years, deep discriminative models have achieved extraordinary performance on supervised learning tasks, significantly outperforming their generative counterparts. However, their success relies on the presence of a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Change detection (CD) aims to identify surface changes from multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. In real-world scenarios, Pixel-level change labels are expensive to acquire, and existing models struggle to adapt to scenarios with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kaixuan Jiang , Chen Wu , Zhenghui Zhao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Hongruixuan Chen

Existing object detectors often struggle to generalize across domains while adapting to emerging novel categories. Adaptive open-set object detection (AOOD) addresses this challenge by training on base categories in the source domain and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuqi Ji , Junjie Ke , Lihuo He , Lizhi Wang , Xinbo Gao

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) for object detection aims to adapt a model trained on a source domain to detect instances from a new target domain for which annotations are not available. Different from traditional approaches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Giulio Mattolin , Luca Zanella , Elisa Ricci , Yiming Wang

Recent advances in deep learning greatly boost the performance of object detection. State-of-the-art methods such as Faster-RCNN, FPN and R-FCN have achieved high accuracy in challenging benchmark datasets. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hao Yang , Hao Wu , Hao Chen

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

The ability to classify images is dependent on having access to large labeled datasets and testing on data from the same domain that the model can train on. Classification becomes more challenging when dealing with new data from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Firas Al-Hindawi , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Teresa Wu , Han Hu , Ying Sun