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Few-shot object detection is a challenging but realistic scenario, where only a few annotated training images are available for training detectors. A popular approach to handle this problem is transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ze Yang , Yali Wang , Xianyu Chen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yu Qiao

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

Image-to-video adaptation seeks to efficiently adapt image models for use in the video domain. Instead of finetuning the entire image backbone, many image-to-video adaptation paradigms use lightweight adapters for temporal modeling on top…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Rui Qian , Shuangrui Ding , Dahua Lin

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

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

Object-centric representation learning aims to decompose visual scenes into fixed-size vectors called "slots" or "object files", where each slot captures a distinct object. Current state-of-the-art object-centric models have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Rabiul Awal , Maximilian Seitzer , Efstratios Gavves , Aishwarya Agrawal

Foundation models have made incredible strides in achieving zero-shot or few-shot generalization, leveraging prompt engineering to mimic the problem-solving approach of human intelligence. However, when it comes to some foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Luyao Tang , Yuxuan Yuan , Chaoqi Chen , Kunze Huang , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

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

We present a novel framework for compositional video synthesis that leverages temporally consistent object-centric representations, extending our previous work, SlotAdapt, from images to video. While existing object-centric approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

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

Unlike popular solutions based on dense feature maps, Object-Centric Learning (OCL) represents visual scenes as sub-symbolic object-level feature vectors, termed slots, which are highly versatile for tasks involving visual modalities. OCL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rongzhen Zhao , Yi Zhao , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Unsupervised object-centric learning (OCL) decomposes visual scenes into distinct entities. Slot attention is a popular approach that represents individual objects as latent vectors, called slots. Current methods obtain these slot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sebastian Bock , Leonie Schüßler , Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jinwoo Kim , Janghyuk Choi , Jaehyun Kang , Changyeon Lee , Ho-Jin Choi , Seon Joo Kim

Learning efficient visual representations across heterogeneous unlabeled datasets remains a central challenge in federated learning. Effective federated representations require features that are jointly informative across clients while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Extracting structured representations from raw visual data is an important and long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recently, techniques for unsupervised learning of object-centric representations have raised growing interest. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Majellaro , Jonathan Collu , Aske Plaat , Thomas M. Moerland

In this paper, we tackle the copy-paste image-to-image composition problem with a focus on object placement learning. Prior methods have leveraged generative models to reduce the reliance for dense supervision. However, this often limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hang Zhou , Xinxin Zuo , Rui Ma , Li Cheng

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

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

Object-centric learning aims to break down complex visual scenes into more manageable object representations, enhancing the understanding and reasoning abilities of machine learning systems toward the physical world. Recently, slot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jian Li , Pu Ren , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

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