US Patent 11709915 Classifying images utilizing generative-discriminative feature representations

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for classifying an input image utilizing a classification model conditioned by a generative model and/or self-supervision. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a generative model to generate a reconstructed image from an input image to be classified. In turn, the disclosed systems can combine the reconstructed image with the input image itself. Using the combination of the input image and the reconstructed image, the disclosed systems utilize a classification model to determine a classification for the input image. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can employ self-supervised learning to cause the classification model to learn discriminative features for better classifying images of both known classes and open-set categories.