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This paper addresses unsupervised discovery and localization of dominant objects from a noisy image collection with multiple object classes. The setting of this problem is fully unsupervised, without even image-level annotations or any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak , Cordelia Schmid , Jean Ponce

Training image-based object detectors presents formidable challenges, as it entails not only the complexities of object detection but also the added intricacies of precisely localizing objects within potentially diverse and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chandan Kumar , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Matthew Darr , Ali Jannesari

Robots have the capability to collect large amounts of data autonomously by interacting with objects in the world. However, it is often not obvious \emph{how} to learning from autonomously collected data without human-labeled supervision.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Coline Devin , Payam Rowghanian , Chris Vigorito , Will Richards , Khashayar Rohanimanesh

We tackle the problem of learning object detectors without supervision. Differently from weakly-supervised object detection, we do not assume image-level class labels. Instead, we extract a supervisory signal from audio-visual data, using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Triantafyllos Afouras , Yuki M. Asano , Francois Fagan , Andrea Vedaldi , Florian Metze

Localizing objects in an unsupervised manner poses significant challenges due to the absence of key visual information such as the appearance, type and number of objects, as well as the lack of labeled object classes typically available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Unsupervised object detection using deep neural networks is typically a difficult problem with few to no guarantees about the learned representation. In this work we present the first unsupervised object detection method that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Marian Longa , João F. Henriques

A first-person camera, placed at a person's head, captures, which objects are important to the camera wearer. Most prior methods for this task learn to detect such important objects from the manually labeled first-person data in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Gedas Bertasius , Hyun Soo Park , Stella X. Yu , Jianbo Shi

Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shiyu Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Samuel Schulter , Long Zhao , Vijay Kumar B. G , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Manmohan Chandraker , Dimitris Metaxas

Embodied agents must detect and localize objects of interest, e.g. traffic participants for self-driving cars. Supervision in the form of bounding boxes for this task is extremely expensive. As such, prior work has looked at unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yihong Sun , Bharath Hariharan

In robotic applications, we often face the challenge of discovering new objects while having very little or no labelled training data. In this paper we explore the use of self-supervision provided by a robot traversing an environment to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Etienne Pot , Alexander Toshev , Jana Kosecka

Training deep neural networks to estimate the viewpoint of objects requires large labeled training datasets. However, manually labeling viewpoints is notoriously hard, error-prone, and time-consuming. On the other hand, it is relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Varun Jampani , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Umar Iqbal , Carsten Rother , Jan Kautz

Deep neural networks can model images with rich latent representations, but they cannot naturally conceptualize structures of object categories in a human-perceptible way. This paper addresses the problem of learning object structures in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yuting Zhang , Yijie Guo , Yixin Jin , Yijun Luo , Zhiyuan He , Honglak Lee

Object discovery is a core task in computer vision. While fast progresses have been made in supervised object detection, its unsupervised counterpart remains largely unexplored. With the growth of data volume, the expensive cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuqi Wang , Yuntao Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

Unsupervised video-based object-centric learning is a promising avenue to learn structured representations from large, unlabeled video collections, but previous approaches have only managed to scale to real-world datasets in restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Maximilian Seitzer , Georg Martius

Learning to localize objects with minimal supervision is an important problem in computer vision, since large fully annotated datasets are extremely costly to obtain. In this paper, we propose a new method that achieves this goal with only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Hyun Oh Song , Ross Girshick , Stefanie Jegelka , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui , Trevor Darrell

Learning automatically the structure of object categories remains an important open problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach that can discover and learn landmarks in object categories, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 James Thewlis , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose a new approach to learn to segment multiple image objects without manual supervision. The method can extract objects form still images, but uses videos for supervision. While prior works have considered motion for segmentation, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Laurynas Karazija , Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Current unsupervised image-to-image translation techniques struggle to focus their attention on individual objects without altering the background or the way multiple objects interact within a scene. Motivated by the important role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Youssef A. Mejjati , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Darren Cosker , Kwang In Kim