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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

We tackle the task of scalable unsupervised object-centric representation learning on 3D scenes. Existing approaches to object-centric representation learning show limitations in generalizing to larger scenes as their learning processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tianyu Wang , Kee Siong Ng , Miaomiao Liu

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

Recent works on 3D scene understanding leverage 2D masks from visual foundation models (VFMs) to supervise radiance fields, enabling instance-level 3D segmentation. However, the supervision signals from foundation models are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tsuheng Hsu , Guiyu Liu , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä

The ability to distill object-centric abstractions from intricate visual scenes underpins human-level generalization. Despite the significant progress in object-centric learning methods, learning object-centric representations in the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yu Liu , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang

Developing deep learning models that effectively learn object-centric representations, akin to human cognition, remains a challenging task. Existing approaches facilitate object discovery by representing objects as fixed-size vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Aniket Didolkar , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

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 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

3D Semantic Scene Graph Prediction aims to detect objects and their semantic relationships in 3D scenes, and has emerged as a crucial technology for robotics and AR/VR applications. While previous research has addressed dataset limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 KunHo Heo , GiHyun Kim , SuYeon Kim , MyeongAh Cho

Modular object-centric representations are essential for *human-like reasoning* but are challenging to obtain under spatial ambiguities, *e.g. due to occlusions and view ambiguities*. However, addressing challenges presents both theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Ben Glocker

Vision-based 3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) has received growing attention due to its potential in autonomous driving. While most existing approaches follow an ego-centric paradigm by aggregating and diffusing features over the entire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Weihua Wang , Yubo Cui , Xiangru Lin , Zhiheng Li , Zheng Fang

Object-centric understanding is fundamental to human vision and required for complex reasoning. Traditional methods define slot-based bottlenecks to learn object properties explicitly, while recent self-supervised vision models like DINO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Stefan Harmeling

We present a novel framework for 3D object-centric representation learning. Our approach effectively decomposes complex scenes into individual objects from a single image in an unsupervised fashion. This method, called slot-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Di Qi , Tong Yang , Xiangyu Zhang

Given the complexities inherent in visual scenes, such as object occlusion, a comprehensive understanding often requires observation from multiple viewpoints. Existing multi-viewpoint object-centric learning methods typically employ random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yinxuan Huang , Chengmin Gao , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

3D Gaussian Splatting is renowned for its high-fidelity reconstructions and real-time novel view synthesis, yet its lack of semantic understanding limits object-level perception. In this work, we propose ObjectGS, an object-aware framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruijie Zhu , Mulin Yu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yixuan Li , Tianzhu Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Bo Dai

Unsupervised object-centric learning methods allow the partitioning of scenes into entities without additional localization information and are excellent candidates for reducing the annotation burden of multiple-object tracking (MOT)…

The ability to decompose complex multi-object scenes into meaningful abstractions like objects is fundamental to achieve higher-level cognition. Previous approaches for unsupervised object-oriented scene representation learning are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Zhixuan Lin , Yi-Fu Wu , Skand Vishwanath Peri , Weihao Sun , Gautam Singh , Fei Deng , Jindong Jiang , Sungjin Ahn

Humans possess the cognitive ability to comprehend scenes in a compositional manner. To empower AI systems with similar capabilities, object-centric learning aims to acquire representations of individual objects from visual scenes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yinxuan Huang , Tonglin Chen , 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

Visual scenes are extremely rich in diversity, not only because there are infinite combinations of objects and background, but also because the observations of the same scene may vary greatly with the change of viewpoints. When observing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Jinyang Yuan , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue