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. 2021 Oct;43(10):3614-3631.
doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2981604. Epub 2021 Sep 2.

Recent Advances in Open Set Recognition: A Survey

Chuanxing Geng, Sheng-Jun Huang, Songcan Chen

Recent Advances in Open Set Recognition: A Survey

Chuanxing Geng et al. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

In real-world recognition/classification tasks, limited by various objective factors, it is usually difficult to collect training samples to exhaust all classes when training a recognizer or classifier. A more realistic scenario is open set recognition (OSR), where incomplete knowledge of the world exists at training time, and unknown classes can be submitted to an algorithm during testing, requiring the classifiers to not only accurately classify the seen classes, but also effectively deal with unseen ones. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of existing open set recognition techniques covering various aspects ranging from related definitions, representations of models, datasets, evaluation criteria, and algorithm comparisons. Furthermore, we briefly analyze the relationships between OSR and its related tasks including zero-shot, one-shot (few-shot) recognition/learning techniques, classification with reject option, and so forth. Additionally, we also review the open world recognition which can be seen as a natural extension of OSR. Importantly, we highlight the limitations of existing approaches and point out some promising subsequent research directions in this field.

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