arxivcs.CV2026-07-06
Virtual Category-Guided Continual Generalized Category Discovery
Jiahui Xiong, Qiuxia Lai, Hongsong Wang
Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) aims to incrementally identify novel categories from sequential unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known classes, which is an essential capability for open-world visual learning. A major bottleneck lies in ambiguous unl…