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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

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

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

Object-Centric Learning (OCL) represents dense image or video pixels as sparse object features. Representative methods utilize discrete representation composed of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) template features to suppress pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Rongzhen Zhao , Vivienne Wang , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Similar to humans perceiving visual scenes as objects, Object-Centric Learning (OCL) can abstract dense images or videos into sparse object-level features. Transformer-based OCL handles complex textures well due to the decoding guidance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Rongzhen Zhao , Vivienne Wang , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Advancements in Sonar image capture have enabled researchers to apply sophisticated object identification algorithms in order to locate targets of interest in images such as mines. Despite progress in this field, modern sonar automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 John McKay , Raghu Raj , Vishal Monga , Jason Isaacs

Recently many multi-label image recognition (MLR) works have made significant progress by introducing pre-trained object detection models to generate lots of proposals or utilizing statistical label co-occurrence enhance the correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Tao Pu , Mingzhan Sun , Hefeng Wu , Tianshui Chen , Ling Tian , Liang Lin

Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in vision-language understanding. However, enabling robust video spatial reasoning-the ability to comprehend object locations, orientations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haoran Tang , Meng Cao , Ruyang Liu , Xiaoxi Liang , Linglong Li , Ge Li , Xiaodan Liang

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

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

Detecting small targets in sea clutter is challenging due to dynamic maritime conditions. Existing solutions either model sea clutter for detection or extract target features based on clutter-target echo differences, including statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Junjie Wang , Yuze Gao , Dongying Li , Wenxian Yu

Slot Attention (SA) with pretrained diffusion models has recently shown promise for object-centric learning (OCL), but suffers from slot entanglement and weak alignment between object slots and image content. We propose Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bac Nguyen , Yuhta Takida , Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

Recent advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve state-of-the-art novel view synthesis and facilitate dense estimation of scene properties. However, NeRFs often fail for large, unbounded scenes that are captured under very sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Alexandra Carlson , Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal , Nathan Tseng , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

Recent advances in deep learning architectures have enabled efficient and accurate classification of pre-trained targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Nevertheless, the presence of unknown targets in real battlefield scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Kyung-hwan Lee , Kyung-tae Kim

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

Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Deep learning (DL) in remote sensing has nowadays become an effective operative tool: it is largely used in applications such as change detection, image restoration, segmentation, detection and classification. With reference to synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images becomes a very challenging problem owing to containing high level noise. In this study, a machine learning-based method is proposed to detect different moving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Umut Özkaya

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.…

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