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Objects are entities we act upon, where the functionality of an object is determined by how we interact with it. In this work we propose a Dual Attention Network model which reasons about human-object interactions. The dual-attentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Tete Xiao , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Mathew Monfort , Aude Oliva , Bolei Zhou

We present a reward-predictive, model-based deep learning method featuring trajectory-constrained visual attention for local planning in visual navigation tasks. Our method learns to place visual attention at locations in latent image space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Stefan Wapnick , Travis Manderson , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Attention mechanisms are widely used in salient object detection models based on deep learning, which can effectively promote the extraction and utilization of useful information by neural networks. However, most of the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Shiping Zhu , Lanyun Zhu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) can enable agents to learn complex tasks. However, it is difficult to interpret the knowledge and reuse it across tasks. Inductive biases can address such issues by explicitly providing generic yet useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Thomas Schnürer , Malte Probst , Horst-Michael Gross

Recent work has shown that object-centric representations can greatly help improve the accuracy of learning dynamics while also bringing interpretability. In this work, we take this idea one step further, ask the following question: "can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Sanket Gandhi , Atul , Samanyu Mahajan , Vishal Sharma , Rushil Gupta , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Parag Singla

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

In image classification, a significant problem arises from bias in the datasets. When it contains only specific types of images, the classifier begins to rely on shortcuts - simplistic and erroneous rules for decision-making. This leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Minsuk Chang , Seokhyeon Park , Hyeon Jeon , Aeri Cho , Soohyun Lee , Jinwook Seo

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

Humans acquire semantic object representations from egocentric visual streams with minimal supervision, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Importantly, the visual system only processes the center of its field of view with high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Timothy Schaumlöffel , Arthur Aubret , Gemma Roig , Jochen Triesch

Efficient learning from demonstration for long-horizon tasks remains an open challenge in robotics. While significant effort has been directed toward learning trajectories, a recent resurgence of object-centric approaches has demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Adrian Röfer , Russell Buchanan , Max Argus , Sethu Vijayakumar , Abhinav Valada

Self-supervised Vision Transformers (ViTs) like DINO show an emergent ability to discover objects, typically observed in [CLS] token attention maps of the final layer. However, these maps often contain spurious activations resulting in poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Samyak Rawlekar , Amitabh Swain , Yujun Cai , Yiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Narendra Ahuja

Recent work on Vision Transformers (VTs) showed that introducing a local inductive bias in the VT architecture helps reducing the number of samples necessary for training. However, the architecture modifications lead to a loss of generality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Elia Peruzzo , Enver Sangineto , Yahui Liu , Marco De Nadai , Wei Bi , Bruno Lepri , Nicu Sebe

A world model is essential for an agent to predict the future and plan in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. To achieve this, recent advancements have focused on video generation, which has gained significant attention due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Youngjoon Jeong , Junha Chun , Soonwoo Cha , Taesup Kim

Patch-level image representation is very important for object classification and detection, since it is robust to spatial transformation, scale variation, and cluttered background. Many existing methods usually require fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Zilong Huang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Jakob Verbeek , Cordelia Schmid

Human drivers use their attentional mechanisms to focus on critical objects and make decisions while driving. As human attention can be revealed from gaze data, capturing and analyzing gaze information has emerged in recent years to benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yao Rong , Naemi-Rebecca Kassautzki , Wolfgang Fuhl , Enkelejda Kasneci

Fast reactions to changes in the surrounding visual environment require efficient attention mechanisms to reallocate computational resources to most relevant locations in the visual field. While current computational models keep improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Lapo Faggi , Alessandro Betti , Dario Zanca , Stefano Melacci , Marco Gori

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiongwei Wu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

We focus on the task of future frame prediction in video governed by underlying physical dynamics. We work with models which are object-centric, i.e., explicitly work with object representations, and propagate a loss in the latent space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Rushil Gupta , Vishal Sharma , Yash Jain , Yitao Liang , Guy Van den Broeck , Parag Singla