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Learning object-centric representations of complex scenes is a promising step towards enabling efficient abstract reasoning from low-level perceptual features. Yet, most deep learning approaches learn distributed representations that do not…

Object-centric learning (OCL) extracts the representation of objects with slots, offering an exceptional blend of flexibility and interpretability for abstracting low-level perceptual features. A widely adopted method within OCL is slot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ke Fan , Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Max Horn , Yanwei Fu , Francesco Locatello , Zheng Zhang

Learning object-level, structured representations is widely regarded as a key to better generalization in vision and underpins the design of next-generation Pre-trained Vision Models (PVMs). Mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hongjia Liu , Rongzhen Zhao , Haohan Chen , Joni Pajarinen

Object-centric representations using slots have shown the advances towards efficient, flexible and interpretable abstraction from low-level perceptual features in a compositional scene. Current approaches randomize the initial state of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Ning Gao , Bernard Hohmann , Gerhard Neumann

Learning modular object-centric representations is crucial for systematic generalization. Existing methods show promising object-binding capabilities empirically, but theoretical identifiability guarantees remain relatively underdeveloped.…

World modelling, i.e. building a representation of the rules that govern the world so as to predict its evolution, is an essential ability for any agent interacting with the physical world. Recent applications of the Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Francesco Petri , Luigi Asprino , Aldo Gangemi

A key human ability is to decompose a scene into distinct objects and use their relationships to understand the environment. Object-centric learning aims to mimic this process in an unsupervised manner. Recently, the slot attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pinzhuo Tian , Shengjie Yang , Hang Yu , Alex C. Kot

The extraction of modular object-centric representations for downstream tasks is an emerging area of research. Learning grounded representations of objects that are guaranteed to be stable and invariant promises robust performance across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Avinash Kori , Francesco Locatello , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Francesca Toni , Ben Glocker

Object-centric slot attention is a powerful framework for unsupervised learning of structured and explainable representations that can support reasoning about objects and actions, including in surgical videos. While conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Kenta Nakahashi , Kazuhiro Yasufuku , Amin Madani , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Humans can discern scene-independent features of objects across various environments, allowing them to swiftly identify objects amidst changing factors such as lighting, perspective, size, and position and imagine the complete images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tonglin Chen , Yinxuan Huang , Zhimeng Shen , Jinghao Huang , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Self-supervised methods for learning object-centric representations have recently been applied successfully to various datasets. This progress is largely fueled by slot-based methods, whose ability to cluster visual scenes into meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Roland S. Zimmermann , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Thomas Kipf , Klaus Greff

Object-centric architectures usually apply a differentiable module to the entire feature map to decompose it into sets of entity representations called slots. Some of these methods structurally resemble clustering algorithms, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Daniil Kirilenko , Vitaliy Vorobyov , Alexey K. Kovalev , Aleksandr I. Panov

Humans excel at abstracting data and constructing \emph{reusable} concepts, a capability lacking in current continual learning systems. The field of object-centric learning addresses this by developing abstract representations, or slots,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Vihang Patil , Andreas Radler , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter

The ability to decompose complex natural scenes into meaningful object-centric abstractions lies at the core of human perception and reasoning. In the recent culmination of unsupervised object-centric learning, the Slot-Attention module has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Baoxiong Jia , Yu Liu , Siyuan Huang

Unsupervised object-centric learning aims to decompose scenes into interpretable object entities, termed slots. Slot-based auto-encoders stand out as a prominent method for this task. Within them, crucial aspects include guiding the encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Nikos Komodakis

Developing deep learning models that effectively learn object-centric representations, akin to human cognition, remains a challenging task. Existing approaches facilitate object discovery by representing objects as fixed-size vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Aniket Didolkar , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

Object-centric understanding is fundamental to human vision and required for complex reasoning. Traditional methods define slot-based bottlenecks to learn object properties explicitly, while recent self-supervised vision models like DINO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Stefan Harmeling

Object-centric learning aims to represent visual data with a set of object entities (a.k.a. slots), providing structured representations that enable systematic generalization. Leveraging advanced architectures like Transformers, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Ziyi Wu , Jingyu Hu , Wuyue Lu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

Object-centric learning aims to decompose an input image into a set of meaningful object files (slots). These latent object representations enable a variety of downstream tasks. Yet, object-centric learning struggles on real-world datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

The aim of object-centric vision is to construct an explicit representation of the objects in a scene. This representation is obtained via a set of interchangeable modules called \emph{slots} or \emph{object files} that compete for local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ayush Chakravarthy , Trang Nguyen , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio , Michael C. Mozer
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