PartCo: Part-Level Correspondence Priors Enhance Category Discovery

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Main Authors: Cendra, Fernando Julio, Han, Kai
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author Cendra, Fernando Julio
Han, Kai
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Han, Kai
contents Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify both known and novel categories within unlabeled data by leveraging a set of labeled examples from known categories. Existing GCD methods primarily depend on semantic labels and global image representations, often overlooking the detailed part-level cues that are crucial for distinguishing closely related categories. In this paper, we introduce PartCo, short for Part-Level Correspondence Prior, a novel framework that enhances category discovery by incorporating part-level visual feature correspondences. By leveraging part-level relationships, PartCo captures finer-grained semantic structures, enabling a more nuanced understanding of category relationships. Importantly, PartCo seamlessly integrates with existing GCD methods without requiring significant modifications. Our extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that PartCo significantly improves the performance of current GCD approaches, outperforming most existing methods by bridging the gap between semantic labels and part-level visual compositions, thereby setting new benchmarks for GCD.
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spellingShingle PartCo: Part-Level Correspondence Priors Enhance Category Discovery
Cendra, Fernando Julio
Han, Kai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify both known and novel categories within unlabeled data by leveraging a set of labeled examples from known categories. Existing GCD methods primarily depend on semantic labels and global image representations, often overlooking the detailed part-level cues that are crucial for distinguishing closely related categories. In this paper, we introduce PartCo, short for Part-Level Correspondence Prior, a novel framework that enhances category discovery by incorporating part-level visual feature correspondences. By leveraging part-level relationships, PartCo captures finer-grained semantic structures, enabling a more nuanced understanding of category relationships. Importantly, PartCo seamlessly integrates with existing GCD methods without requiring significant modifications. Our extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that PartCo significantly improves the performance of current GCD approaches, outperforming most existing methods by bridging the gap between semantic labels and part-level visual compositions, thereby setting new benchmarks for GCD.
title PartCo: Part-Level Correspondence Priors Enhance Category Discovery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22769