US Patent 11710324 Systems and methods for improving the classification of objects

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the classification of objects depicted in a scene. In one embodiment, a method includes generating, using an ontological detector, a type classification of a detected object according to a detector ontology of known classes. The detected object is represented as segmented data from sensor data about a surrounding environment. The method includes, in response to determining that the type classification specifies an unknown class that is not defined in the detector ontology, annotating the segmented data as unknown. The method includes providing the segmented data to specify that the type classification for the detected object is unknown.