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We present an unsupervised representation learning approach using videos without semantic labels. We leverage the temporal coherence as a supervisory signal by formulating representation learning as a sequence sorting task. We take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Maneesh Singh , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We introduce a novel framework to build a model that can learn how to segment objects from a collection of images without any human annotation. Our method builds on the observation that the location of object segments can be perturbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Adam Bielski , Paolo Favaro

Deep neural networks can model images with rich latent representations, but they cannot naturally conceptualize structures of object categories in a human-perceptible way. This paper addresses the problem of learning object structures in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yuting Zhang , Yijie Guo , Yixin Jin , Yijun Luo , Zhiyuan He , Honglak Lee

Vision benefits from grouping pixels into objects and understanding their spatial relationships, both laterally and in depth. We capture this with a scene representation comprising an occlusion-ordered stack of "object layers," each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Aneel Damaraju , Dean Hazineh , Todd Zickler

Deep learning for unsupervised image segmentation remains challenging due to the absence of human labels. The common idea is to train a segmentation head, with the supervision of pixel-wise pseudo-labels generated based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Chengyi Wu

Unsupervised multi-object discovery (MOD) aims to detect and localize distinct object instances in visual scenes without any form of human supervision. Recent approaches leverage object-centric learning (OCL) and motion cues from video to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinrui Gong , Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Daniel Cremers , Stefan Roth

Object detectors achieve strong performance under nominal imaging conditions but can fail silently when exposed to blur, noise, compression, adverse weather, or resolution changes. In safety-critical settings, it is therefore insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Stefan Becker , Simon Weiss , Wolfgang Hübner , Michael Arens

We present a novel approach to unsupervised learning for video object segmentation (VOS). Unlike previous work, our formulation allows to learn dense feature representations directly in a fully convolutional regime. We rely on uniform grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng

In this work, we address the problem of unsupervised moving object segmentation (MOS) in 4D LiDAR data recorded from a stationary sensor, where no ground truth annotations are involved. Deep learning-based state-of-the-art methods for LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Thomas Kreutz , Max Mühlhäuser , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea

Learning meaningful representations is at the heart of many tasks in the field of modern machine learning. Recently, a lot of methods were introduced that allow learning of image representations without supervision. These representations…

Visual recognition tasks are often limited to dealing with a small subset of classes simply because the labels for the remaining classes are unavailable. We are interested in identifying novel concepts in a dataset through representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Geeho Kim , Junoh Kang , Bohyung Han

Unsupervised learning enables modeling complex images without the need for annotations. The representation learned by such models can facilitate any subsequent analysis of large image datasets. However, some generative factors that cause…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Maxime W. Lafarge , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

It is challenging to disentangle an object into two orthogonal spaces of content and style since each can influence the visual observation differently and unpredictably. It is rare for one to have access to a large number of data to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Wayne Wu , Kaidi Cao , Cheng Li , Chen Qian , Chen Change Loy

Creative processes such as painting often involve creating different components of an image one by one. Can we build a computational model to perform this task? Prior works often fail by making global changes to the image, inserting objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Alper Canberk , Maksym Bondarenko , Ege Ozguroglu , Ruoshi Liu , Carl Vondrick

One of the key challenges of visual perception is to extract abstract models of 3D objects and object categories from visual measurements, which are affected by complex nuisance factors such as viewpoint, occlusion, motion, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 James Thewlis , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

The key idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by unsupervised learning algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Francesco Locatello , Stefan Bauer , Mario Lucic , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

This paper introduces an innovative approach to open world recognition (OWR), where we leverage knowledge acquired from known objects to address the recognition of previously unseen objects. The traditional method of object modeling relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Paridhi Singh , Arun Kumar

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman