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Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyao You , Lingyu Kong , Lingchen Meng , Zuxuan Wu

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

We present a slot-wise, object-based transition model that decomposes a scene into objects, aligns them (with respect to a slot-wise object memory) to maintain a consistent order across time, and predicts how those objects evolve over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Antonia Creswell , Rishabh Kabra , Chris Burgess , Murray Shanahan

Unsupervised video object segmentation is a crucial application in video analysis without knowing any prior information about the objects. It becomes tremendously challenging when multiple objects occur and interact in a given video clip.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Ye Wang , Jongmoo Choi , Yueru Chen , Siyang Li , Qin Huang , Kaitai Zhang , Ming-Sui Lee , C. -C. Jay Kuo

This paper tackles the problem of semi-supervised video object segmentation, that is, segmenting an object in a sequence given its mask in the first frame. One of the main challenges in this scenario is the change of appearance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Luc Van Gool

Object-centric scene decompositions are important representations for downstream tasks in fields such as computer vision and robotics. The recently proposed Slot Attention module, already leveraged by several derivative works for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Markus Krimmel , Jan Achterhold , Joerg Stueckler

Existing deep learning based unsupervised video object segmentation methods still rely on ground-truth segmentation masks to train. Unsupervised in this context only means that no annotated frames are used during inference. As obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sahir Shrestha , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Nick Barnes

Object-centric slot attention is an emerging paradigm for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable object-centric representations (slots). This enables effective reasoning about objects and events at a low computational cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Edward Zhang , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Unsupervised object discovery is becoming an essential line of research for tackling recognition problems that require decomposing an image into entities, such as semantic segmentation and object detection. Recently, object-centric methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Rishav Pramanik , José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Recently developed deep learning models are able to learn to segment scenes into component objects without supervision. This opens many new and exciting avenues of research, allowing agents to take objects (or entities) as inputs, rather…

Automatically discovering composable abstractions from raw perceptual data is a long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recent slot-based neural networks that learn about objects in a self-supervised manner have made exciting progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Ondrej Biza , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Thomas Kipf

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach for self-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our key insight is that the inherent structural dependencies present in DINO-pretrained Transformers can be leveraged to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shuangrui Ding , Rui Qian , Haohang Xu , Dahua Lin , Hongkai Xiong

Object-centric representations are a promising path toward more systematic generalization by providing flexible abstractions upon which compositional world models can be built. Recent work on simple 2D and 3D datasets has shown that models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Thomas Kipf , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Austin Stone , Sara Sabour , Georg Heigold , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Klaus Greff

A central goal in AI is to represent scenes as compositions of discrete objects, enabling fine-grained, controllable image and video generation. Yet leading diffusion models treat images holistically and rely on text conditioning, creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Adil Kaan Akan

Video object segmentation is a fundamental research problem in computer vision. Recent techniques have often applied attention mechanism to object representation learning from video sequences. However, due to temporal changes in the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Quang-Trung Truong , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Subhabrata Choudhury , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

To improve the efficiency of surgical trajectory segmentation for robot learning in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, this paper presents a fast unsupervised method using video and kinematic data, followed by a promoting procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zhenzhou Shao , Hongfa Zhao , Jiexin Xie , Ying Qu , Yong Guan , Jindong Tan

This paper introduces an unsupervised framework to extract semantically rich features for video representation. Inspired by how the human visual system groups objects based on motion cues, we propose a deep convolutional neural network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Xunyu Lin , Victor Campos , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Cristian Canton Ferrer

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised video object co-segmentation framework based on the primary object proposals to extract the common foreground object(s) from a given video set. In addition to the objectness attributes and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Michael Ying Yang , Matthias Reso , Jun Tang , Wentong Liao , Bodo Rosenhahn

This work proposes a self-supervised learning system for segmenting rigid objects in RGB images. The proposed pipeline is trained on unlabeled RGB-D videos of static objects, which can be captured with a camera carried by a mobile robot. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shiyang Lu , Yunfu Deng , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris