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Learning robotic manipulation skills from vision is a promising approach for developing robotics applications that can generalize broadly to real-world scenarios. As such, many approaches to enable this vision have been explored with…

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Existing synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods have been effective for the classification of seen target classes. However, it is more meaningful and challenging to distinguish the unseen target classes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

One of the ultimate goals of representation learning is to achieve compactness within a class and well-separability between classes. Many outstanding metric-based and prototype-based methods following the Expectation-Maximization paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yanqi Ge , Qiang Nie , Ye Huang , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

Object-centric learning (OCL) aims to learn structured scene representations that support compositional generalization and robustness to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. However, OCL models are often not evaluated regarding these goals.…

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

Recently, computer-aided design models and electromagnetic simulations have been used to augment synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for deep learning. However, an automatic target recognition (ATR) model struggles with domain shift when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Oh-Tae Jang , Min-Jun Kim , Sung-Ho Kim , Hee-Sub Shin , Kyung-Tae Kim

Causal representation learning has showed a variety of settings in which we can disentangle latent variables with identifiability guarantees (up to some reasonable equivalence class). Common to all of these approaches is the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amin Mansouri , Jason Hartford , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

Object-centric representation learning has recently been successfully applied to real-world datasets. This success can be attributed to pretrained non-object-centric foundation models, whose features serve as reconstruction targets for slot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Nikola Đukić , Tim Lebailly , Tinne Tuytelaars

A key challenge for LiDAR-based 3D object detection is to capture sufficient features from large scale 3D scenes especially for distant or/and occluded objects. Albeit recent efforts made by Transformers with the long sequence modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Chao Zhou , Yanan Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms classify a given Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes using a set of training images available for each class. Recently, learning methods have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tushar Agarwal , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

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

Object-centric slot attention is a powerful framework for unsupervised learning of structured and explainable representations that can support reasoning about objects and actions, including in surgical videos. While conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Kenta Nakahashi , Kazuhiro Yasufuku , Amin Madani , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Existing polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance on complex scenes characterized by several types of land cover with significant levels of noise or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenshuai Chen , Shuiping Gou , Xinlin Wang , Licheng Jiao , Changzhe Jiao , Alina Zare

Although data generation is often straightforward, extracting information from data is more difficult. Object-centric representation learning can extract information from images in an unsupervised manner. It does so by segmenting an image…

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Loop Closure Detection (LCD) is the essential module in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) task. In the current appearance-based SLAM methods, the visual inputs are usually affected by illumination, appearance and viewpoints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Peng Yin , Yuqing He , Lingyun Xu , Yan Peng , Jianda Han , Weiliang Xu

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) systems have rapidly evolved to tackle incremental recognition challenges in operational settings. Data scarcity remains a major hurdle that conventional SAR-ATR techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Unsupervised extraction of objects from low-level visual data is an important goal for further progress in machine learning. Existing approaches for representing objects without labels use structured generative models with static images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Evan Racah , Sarath Chandar

The deep neural networks (DNNs) have freed the synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) from expertise-based feature designing and demonstrated superiority over conventional solutions. There has been shown the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Bowen Peng , Jianyue Xie , Bo Peng , Li Liu

Object-Centric Learning (OCL) aggregates image or video feature maps into object-level feature vectors, termed \textit{slots}. It's self-supervision of reconstructing the input from slots struggles with complex object textures, thus Vision…

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

Symmetric objects are common in daily life and industry, yet their inherent orientation ambiguities that impede the training of deep learning networks for pose estimation are rarely discussed in the literature. To cope with these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Andreas Kriegler , Csaba Beleznai , Margrit Gelautz

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

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