Automatic class discovery papers:

• Discovering Object Categories in Image Collections Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Alexei A. Efros, Andrew Zisserman, William T. Freeman, 2005
• Discovering objects and their location in images, Sivic, J., Russell, B.C., Efros, A.A., Zisserman, A. and Freeman, W.T., 2005. ICCV.
• Unsupervised Object Class Discovery via Saliency-Guided Multiple Class Learning Jun-Yan Zhu, Jiajun Wu , Yichen Wei , Eric Chang and Zhuowen Tu, CVPR 2012
• Unsupervised Object Discovery and Segmentation in Videos Samuel Schulter, Christian Leistner, Peter M Roth, Horst Bischof, BMVC 2013
• Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization in the Wild: Part-Based Matching With Bottom-Up Region Proposals Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak, Cordelia Schmid, Jean Ponce, CVPR 2015
• Automatic Attribute Discovery with Neural Activations Sirion Vittayakorn, Takayuki Umeda, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Kyoko Sudo, Takayuki Okatani, Kota Yamaguchi , ECCV 2016
• Automatic Discovery, Association Estimation and Learning of Semantic Attributes for a Thousand Categories , Ziad Al-Halah, Rainer Stiefelhagen, CVPR 2017
• Mining Objects: Fully Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization From a Single Image, Runsheng Zhang, Yaping Huang,Mengyang Pu, Qingji Guan,Jian Zhang, Qi Zou, 2019
• Semi-Supervised Class Discovery Jeremy Nixon , Jeremiah Liu, David Berthelot, 2020
• Automatically Discovering And Learning New Visual Categories With Ranking Statistics , Kai Han, Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Sebastien Ehrhardt, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman , ICLR 2020
• Toward Unsupervised, Multi-Object Discovery in Large-Scale Image Collections Huy V. Vo, Patrick Perez ,Jean Ponce, ECCV 2020
• OpenMix: Reviving Known Knowledge for Discovering Novel Visual Categories in An Open World, Zhun Zhong, Linchao Zhu, Zhiming Luo, Shaozi Li, Yi Yang, Nicu Sebe, 2020