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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

Autonomous agents need large repertoires of skills to act reasonably on new tasks that they have not seen before. However, acquiring these skills using only a stream of high-dimensional, unstructured, and unlabeled observations is a tricky…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Maximilian Seitzer , Georg Martius

Robotic manipulation in complex open-world scenarios requires both reliable physical manipulation skills and effective and generalizable perception. In this paper, we propose a method where general purpose pretrained visual models serve as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Coline Devin , Pieter Abbeel , Trevor Darrell , Sergey Levine

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

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

The idea behind object-centric representation learning is that natural scenes can better be modeled as compositions of objects and their relations as opposed to distributed representations. This inductive bias can be injected into neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Andrea Dittadi , Samuele Papa , Michele De Vita , Bernhard Schölkopf , Ole Winther , Francesco Locatello

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

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

Slot Attention (SA) lies at the heart of mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL). Image features can be aggregated into object-level representations by SA \textit{iteratively} refining cold-start query slots. For video, such aggregation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Rongzhen Zhao , Wenyan Yang , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on Video Temporal Grounding (VTG). However, their coarse recognition capabilities are insufficient for fine-grained temporal understanding, making task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiwook Han , Geo Ahn , Youngrae Kim , Jinwoo Choi

Attention mechanisms is frequently used to learn the discriminative features for better feature representations. In this paper, we extend the attention mechanism to the task of weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) and propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Junhui Yin , Siqing Zhang , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Unsupervised object-centric learning from videos is a promising approach to extract structured representations from large, unlabeled collections of videos. To support downstream tasks like autonomous control, these representations must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Anna Manasyan , Maximilian Seitzer , Filip Radovic , Georg Martius , Andrii Zadaianchuk

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

Object-centric learning aims to break down complex visual scenes into more manageable object representations, enhancing the understanding and reasoning abilities of machine learning systems toward the physical world. Recently, slot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jian Li , Pu Ren , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

The goal of object-centric representation learning is to decompose visual scenes into a structured representation that isolates the entities. Recent successes have shown that object-centric representation learning can be scaled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Anirudh Goyal , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Georg Martius , Maximilian Seitzer

Learning object-centric representations from complex natural environments enables both humans and machines with reasoning abilities from low-level perceptual features. To capture compositional entities of the scene, we proposed cyclic walks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ziyu Wang , Mike Zheng Shou , Mengmi Zhang

Object-centric learning (OCL) seeks to learn representations that only encode an object, isolated from other objects or background cues in a scene. This approach underpins various aims, including out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Rubinstein , Ameya Prabhu , Matthias Bethge , Seong Joon Oh

Learning compositional representation is a key aspect of object-centric learning as it enables flexible systematic generalization and supports complex visual reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches rely on auto-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Jaehoon Yoo , Sungjin Ahn , Seunghoon Hong

We present a simple yet effective progressive self-guided loss function to facilitate deep learning-based salient object detection (SOD) in images. The saliency maps produced by the most relevant works still suffer from incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng Yang , Weisi Lin , Guosheng Lin , Qiuping Jiang , Zichuan Liu

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