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Learning object-centric representations of complex scenes is a promising step towards enabling efficient abstract reasoning from low-level perceptual features. Yet, most deep learning approaches learn distributed representations that do not…

The extraction of modular object-centric representations for downstream tasks is an emerging area of research. Learning grounded representations of objects that are guaranteed to be stable and invariant promises robust performance across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Avinash Kori , Francesco Locatello , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Francesca Toni , Ben Glocker

Learning modular object-centric representations is crucial for systematic generalization. Existing methods show promising object-binding capabilities empirically, but theoretical identifiability guarantees remain relatively underdeveloped.…

Causal representation learning has showed a variety of settings in which we can disentangle latent variables with identifiability guarantees (up to some reasonable equivalence class). Common to all of these approaches is the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amin Mansouri , Jason Hartford , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

Self-supervised methods for learning object-centric representations have recently been applied successfully to various datasets. This progress is largely fueled by slot-based methods, whose ability to cluster visual scenes into meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Roland S. Zimmermann , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Thomas Kipf , Klaus Greff

Object-centric learning aims to decompose an input image into a set of meaningful object files (slots). These latent object representations enable a variety of downstream tasks. Yet, object-centric learning struggles on real-world datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Learning object-level, structured representations is widely regarded as a key to better generalization in vision and underpins the design of next-generation Pre-trained Vision Models (PVMs). Mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hongjia Liu , Rongzhen Zhao , Haohan Chen , Joni Pajarinen

The aim of object-centric vision is to construct an explicit representation of the objects in a scene. This representation is obtained via a set of interchangeable modules called \emph{slots} or \emph{object files} that compete for local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ayush Chakravarthy , Trang Nguyen , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio , Michael C. Mozer

Humans can discern scene-independent features of objects across various environments, allowing them to swiftly identify objects amidst changing factors such as lighting, perspective, size, and position and imagine the complete images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tonglin Chen , Yinxuan Huang , Zhimeng Shen , Jinghao Huang , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

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 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

Slot-based object-centric learning represents an image as a set of latent slots with a decoder that combines them into an image or features. The decoder specifies how slots are combined into an output, but the slot set is typically fixed:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Christos Chatzisavvas , Panagiotis Rigas , George Ioannakis , Vassilis Katsouros , Nikolaos Mitianoudis

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

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

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

We present SlotAdapt, an object-centric learning method that combines slot attention with pretrained diffusion models by introducing adapters for slot-based conditioning. Our method preserves the generative power of pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

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

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

Object-centric learning aims to represent visual data with a set of object entities (a.k.a. slots), providing structured representations that enable systematic generalization. Leveraging advanced architectures like Transformers, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Ziyi Wu , Jingyu Hu , Wuyue Lu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

The ability to decompose complex natural scenes into meaningful object-centric abstractions lies at the core of human perception and reasoning. In the recent culmination of unsupervised object-centric learning, the Slot-Attention module has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Baoxiong Jia , Yu Liu , Siyuan Huang
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