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Understanding, reasoning, and manipulating semantic concepts of images have been a fundamental research problem for decades. Previous work mainly focused on direct manipulation on natural image manifold through color strokes, key-points,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Seunghoon Hong , Xinchen Yan , Thomas Huang , Honglak Lee

Deep neural networks have become the default choice for many applications like image and video recognition, segmentation and other image and video related tasks.However, a critical challenge with these models is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Sunil Kumar Vengalil , Neelam Sinha

Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods seek to represent objects as semantically consistent part arrangements. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos , Andreas Geiger , Sanja Fidler

3D Shape representation has substantial effects on 3D shape reconstruction. Primitive-based representations approximate a 3D shape mainly by a set of simple implicit primitives, but the low geometrical complexity of the primitives limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Mohsen Yavartanoo , JaeYoung Chung , Reyhaneh Neshatavar , Kyoung Mu Lee

We present a differentiable rendering framework to learn structured 3D abstractions in the form of primitive assemblies from sparse RGB images capturing a 3D object. By leveraging differentiable volume rendering, our method does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Fenggen Yu , Yiming Qian , Xu Zhang , Francisca Gil-Ureta , Brian Jackson , Eric Bennett , Hao Zhang

To make an employee roster, photo album, or training dataset of generative models, one needs to collect high-quality images while dismissing low-quality ones. This study addresses a new task of unsupervised detection of low-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Tomoyasu Nanaumi , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

Intrinsic Image Decomposition (IID) is a challenging and interesting computer vision problem with various applications in several fields. We present novel semantic priors and an integrated approach for single image IID that involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Saurabh Saini , P. J. Narayanan

The seemingly infinite diversity of the natural world arises from a relatively small set of coherent rules, such as the laws of physics or chemistry. We conjecture that these rules give rise to regularities that can be discovered through…

A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Francesco Locatello , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Olivier Bachem

The reconstruction of visual information from brain activity fosters interdisciplinary integration between neuroscience and computer vision. However, existing methods still face challenges in accurately recovering highly complex visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Shiyi Zhang , Dong Liang , Hairong Zheng , Yihang Zhou

This paper presents abstract art created by neural networks and broadly recognizable across various computer vision systems. The existence of abstract forms that trigger specific labels independent of neural architecture or training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tom White

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising method for deriving visual representations from unlabeled image data by predicting missing pixels from masked portions of images. It excels in region-aware learning and provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yibing Wei , Abhinav Gupta , Pedro Morgado

It is always well believed that parsing an image into constituent visual patterns would be helpful for understanding and representing an image. Nevertheless, there has not been evidence in support of the idea on describing an image with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Tao Mei

Detecting assistance from artificial intelligence is increasingly important as they become ubiquitous across complex tasks such as text generation, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. Aid detection is challenging for humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tyler King , Nikolos Gurney , John H. Miller , Volkan Ustun

Contemporary deep learning architectures lack principled means for capturing and handling fundamental visual concepts, like objects, shapes, geometric transforms, and other higher-level structures. We propose a neurosymbolic architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Krzysztof Krawiec , Antoni Nowinowski

Visual Recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in AI, where the goal is to understand the semantics of visual data. Employing mid-level representation, in particular, shifted the paradigm in visual recognition. The mid-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Moin Nabi

The study of causal abstractions bridges two integral components of human intelligence: the ability to determine cause and effect, and the ability to interpret complex patterns into abstract concepts. Formally, causal abstraction frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Kevin Xia , Elias Bareinboim

Implicit representation of an image can map arbitrary coordinates in the continuous domain to their corresponding color values, presenting a powerful capability for image reconstruction. Nevertheless, existing implicit representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Canyu Zhang , Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Song Wang

Biological visual systems learn from limited experience, unlike deep learning models that rely on millions of training images. What learning principles make this possible? We tested whether efficient coding, the idea that neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ananya Passi , Brian S. Robinson , Michael F. Bonner

Common-sense physical reasoning in the real world requires learning about the interactions of objects and their dynamics. The notion of an abstract object, however, encompasses a wide variety of physical objects that differ greatly in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Aleksandar Stanić , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Jürgen Schmidhuber