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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

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

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

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

We introduce a new architecture for unsupervised object-centric representation learning and multi-object detection and segmentation, which uses a translation-equivariant attention mechanism to predict the coordinates of the objects present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bruno Sauvalle , Arnaud de La Fortelle

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images contain not only targets of interest but also complex background clutter, including terrain reflections and speckle noise. In many cases, such clutter exhibits intensity and patterns that resemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Oh-Tae Jang , Min-Gon Cho , Kyung-Tae Kim

Unsupervised object discovery is becoming an essential line of research for tackling recognition problems that require decomposing an image into entities, such as semantic segmentation and object detection. Recently, object-centric methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Rishav Pramanik , José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Self-supervised methods have shown remarkable progress in learning high-level semantics and low-level temporal correspondence. Building on these results, we take one step further and explore the possibility of integrating these two features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Rui Qian , Shuangrui Ding , Xian Liu , Dahua Lin

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to segment the most prominent object in a video sequence. However, the existence of complex backgrounds and multiple foreground objects make this task challenging. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Dogyoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

We propose the Compact Clustering Attention (COCA) layer, an effective building block that introduces a hierarchical strategy for object-centric representation learning, while solving the unsupervised object discovery task on single images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Can Küçüksözen , Yücel Yemez

A central goal in AI is to represent scenes as compositions of discrete objects, enabling fine-grained, controllable image and video generation. Yet leading diffusion models treat images holistically and rely on text conditioning, creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Adil Kaan Akan

Unsupervised video Object-Centric Learning (OCL) is promising as it enables object-level scene representation and understanding as we humans do. Mainstream video OCL methods adopt a recurrent architecture: An aggregator aggregates current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Rongzhen Zhao , Jian Li , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

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 visual system processes a scene using a sequence of selective glimpses, each driven by spatial and object-based attention. These glimpses reflect what is relevant to the ongoing task and are selected through recurrent processing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hossein Adeli , Seoyoung Ahn , Gregory Zelinsky

Multi-label Learning on Image data has been widely exploited with deep learning models. However, supervised training on deep CNN models often cannot discover sufficient discriminative features for classification. As a result, numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Xu Kaixin , Liu Liyang , Zhao Ziyuan , Zeng Zeng , Bharadwaj Veeravalli

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

We propose Low-Rank Sparse Attention (Lorsa), a sparse replacement model of Transformer attention layers to disentangle original Multi Head Self Attention (MHSA) into individually comprehensible components. Lorsa is designed to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhengfu He , Junxuan Wang , Rui Lin , Xuyang Ge , Wentao Shu , Qiong Tang , Junping Zhang , Xipeng Qiu

We investigate the emergence of objects in visual perception in the absence of any semantic annotation. The resulting model has received no supervision, does not use any pre-trained features, and yet it can segment the domain of an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dong Lao , Zhengyang Hu , Francesco Locatello , Yanchao Yang , Stefano Soatto

Unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) aims at detecting the primary objects in a given video sequence without any human interposing. Most existing methods rely on two-stream architectures that separately encode the appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Lingyi Hong , Wei Zhang , Shuyong Gao , Hong Lu , WenQiang Zhang