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The binding problem in artificial neural networks is actively explored with the goal of achieving human-level recognition skills through the comprehension of the world in terms of symbol-like entities. Especially in the field of computer…

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In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu

The self-attention mechanism, a cornerstone of Transformer-based state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, is largely heuristic-driven and fundamentally challenging to interpret. Establishing a robust theoretical foundation to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Laziz U. Abdullaev , Maksim Tkachenko , Tan M. Nguyen

Self-supervised methods have shown remarkable progress in learning high-level semantics and low-level temporal correspondence. Building on these results, we take one step further and explore the possibility of integrating these two features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Qian , Shuangrui Ding , Xian Liu , Dahua Lin

Point cloud segmentation, which helps us understand the environment of specific structures and objects, can be performed in class-specific and class-agnostic ways. We propose a novel region-based transformer model called Region-Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Dipesh Gyawali , Jian Zhang , BB Karki

As a promising scheme of self-supervised learning, masked autoencoding has significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision. Inspired by this, we propose a neat scheme of masked autoencoders for point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yatian Pang , Wenxiao Wang , Francis E. H. Tay , Wei Liu , Yonghong Tian , Li Yuan

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

Unsupervised multi-object segmentation has shown impressive results on images by utilizing powerful semantics learned from self-supervised pretraining. An additional modality such as depth or motion is often used to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

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

Self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the recent progress of Vision Transformer (ViT), which enables adaptive feature extraction from global contexts. However, existing self-attention methods either adopt sparse global attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xuran Pan , Tianzhu Ye , Zhuofan Xia , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

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

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

Proto-objects - image regions that share common visual properties - offer a promising alternative to traditional attention mechanisms based on rectangular-shaped image patches in neural networks. Although previous work demonstrated that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Rafael C. Pinto , Anderson R. Tavares

We present a slot-wise, object-based transition model that decomposes a scene into objects, aligns them (with respect to a slot-wise object memory) to maintain a consistent order across time, and predicts how those objects evolve over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Antonia Creswell , Rishabh Kabra , Chris Burgess , Murray Shanahan

Annotating 3D LiDAR point clouds for perception tasks is fundamental for many applications e.g., autonomous driving, yet it still remains notoriously labor-intensive. Pretraining-finetuning approach can alleviate the labeling burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangchao Yan , Runjian Chen , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Renqiu Xia , Jiakang Yuan , Hongbin Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

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

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

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

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