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This paper addresses key challenges in object-centric representation learning of video. While existing approaches struggle with complex scenes, we propose a novel weakly-supervised framework that emphasises geometric understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Phúc H. Le Khac , Graham Healy , Alan F. Smeaton

Learning visual representations from observing actions to benefit robot visuo-motor policy generation is a promising direction that closely resembles human cognitive function and perception. Motivated by this, and further inspired by…

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

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

Synthesizing realistic and diverse indoor 3D scene layouts in a controllable fashion opens up applications in simulated navigation and virtual reality. As concise and robust representations of a scene, scene graphs have proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Mengqi Wang , Diego Martin Arroyo , Fabian Manhardt , Nico Messikomer , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to segment the most prominent object in a video sequence. However, the existence of complex backgrounds and multiple foreground objects make this task challenging. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Dogyoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Object-centric learning (OCL) aspires general and compositional understanding of scenes by representing a scene as a collection of object-centric representations. OCL has also been extended to multi-view image and video datasets to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jinwoo Kim , Janghyuk Choi , Ho-Jin Choi , Seon Joo Kim

The visual world is fundamentally compositional. Visual scenes are defined by the composition of objects and their relations. Hence, it is essential for computer vision systems to reflect and exploit this compositionality to achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuhao Fu , Andrew Jun Lee , Anna Wang , Ida Momennejad , Trevor Bihl , Hongjing Lu , Taylor W. Webb

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

Recent advances in object-centric representation learning have shown that slot attention-based methods can effectively decompose visual scenes into object slot representations without supervision. However, existing approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Huankun Sheng , Ming Li , Yixiang Wei , Yeying Fan , Yu-Hui Wen , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

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

The recent success of transformer-based image generative models in object-centric learning highlights the importance of powerful image generators for handling complex scenes. However, despite the high expressiveness of diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jindong Jiang , Fei Deng , Gautam Singh , Sungjin Ahn

In this paper, we propose a lightweight music-generating model based on variational autoencoder (VAE) with structured attention. Generating music is different from generating text because the melodies with chords give listeners…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yizhou Zhao , Liang Qiu , Wensi Ai , Feng Shi , Song-Chun Zhu

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

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

Recently there is an increasing interest in scene generation within the research community. However, models used for generating scene layouts from textual description largely ignore plausible visual variations within the structure dictated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Akash Abdu Jyothi , Thibaut Durand , Jiawei He , Leonid Sigal , Greg Mori

Object-centric representations promise a key property for few-shot learning: Rather than treating a scene as a single unit, a model can decompose it into individual object-level parts that can be matched and compared across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam , Phu-Hoa Pham , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Huynh Trung Kiet , Long Tran-Thanh

The visual world can be parsimoniously characterized in terms of distinct entities with sparse interactions. Discovering this compositional structure in dynamic visual scenes has proven challenging for end-to-end computer vision approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Klaus Greff , Michael C. Mozer , Thomas Kipf

Learning structured representations of the visual world in terms of objects promises to significantly improve the generalization abilities of current machine learning models. While recent efforts to this end have shown promising empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jack Brady , Roland S. Zimmermann , Yash Sharma , Bernhard Schölkopf , Julius von Kügelgen , Wieland Brendel

Representing a scene and its constituent objects from raw sensory data is a core ability for enabling robots to interact with their environment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for scene understanding, leveraging a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Toon Van de Maele , Tim Verbelen , Pietro Mazzaglia , Stefano Ferraro , Bart Dhoedt