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We propose a novel unsupervised object localization method that allows us to explain the predictions of the model by utilizing self-supervised pre-trained models without additional finetuning. Existing unsupervised and self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yeonghwan Song , Seokwoo Jang , Dina Katabi , Jeany Son

Many models of visual attention have been proposed so far. Traditional bottom-up models, like saliency models, fail to replicate human gaze patterns, and deep gaze prediction models lack biological plausibility due to their reliance on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-28 Takuto Yamamoto , Hirosato Akahoshi , Shigeru Kitazawa

We study the use of deep features extracted from a pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) as dense visual descriptors. We observe and empirically demonstrate that such features, when extractedfrom a self-supervised ViT model (DINO-ViT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shir Amir , Yossi Gandelsman , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel

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

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

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

The features of self-supervised vision transformers (ViTs) contain strong semantic and positional information relevant to downstream tasks like object localization and segmentation. Recent works combine these features with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ronan Docherty , Antonis Vamvakeros , Samuel J. Cooper

Video Object-Centric Learning seeks to decompose raw videos into a small set of object slots, but existing slot-attention models often suffer from severe over-fragmentation. This is because the model is implicitly encouraged to occupy all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 WonJun Moon , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

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

Recovering 3D geometry and textures of individual objects is crucial for many robotics applications, such as manipulation, pose estimation, and autonomous driving. However, decomposing a target object from a complex background is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jun Wu , Sicheng Li , Sihui Ji , Yifei Yang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

Contrastive learning for single object centric images has achieved remarkable progress on unsupervised representation, but suffering inferior performance on the widespread images with multiple objects. In this paper, we propose a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chengchao Shen , Dawei Liu , Jianxin Wang

Unsupervised instance segmentation aims to segment distinct object instances in an image without relying on human-labeled data. This field has recently seen significant advancements, partly due to the strong local correspondences afforded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Dylan Li , Gyungin Shin

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.…

Learning object segmentation in image and video datasets without human supervision is a challenging problem. Humans easily identify moving salient objects in videos using the gestalt principle of common fate, which suggests that what moves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

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

Recent advances in person re-identification have demonstrated enhanced discriminability, especially with supervised learning or transfer learning. However, since the data requirements---including the degree of data curations---are becoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan

We tackle the problem of object-centric learning on point clouds, which is crucial for high-level relational reasoning and scalable machine intelligence. In particular, we introduce a framework, SPAIR3D, to factorize a 3D point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Miaomiao Liu , Kee Siong Ng

Multiview recognition has been well studied in the literature and achieves decent performance in object recognition and retrieval task. However, most previous works rely on supervised learning and some impractical underlying assumptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Chih-Hui Ho , Bo Liu , Tz-Ying Wu , Nuno Vasconcelos

We introduce a new architecture for unsupervised object-centric representation learning and multi-object detection and segmentation, which uses a translation-equivariant attention mechanism to predict the coordinates of the objects present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bruno Sauvalle , Arnaud de La Fortelle