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The ability to distill object-centric abstractions from intricate visual scenes underpins human-level generalization. Despite the significant progress in object-centric learning methods, learning object-centric representations in the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yu Liu , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang

Self-attention mechanisms, especially multi-head self-attention (MSA), have achieved great success in many fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, many existing vision transformer (ViT) works simply inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Leijie Wu , Song Guo , Yaohong Ding , Junxiao Wang , Wenchao Xu , Richard Yida Xu , Jie Zhang

Unsupervised object-centric learning aims to decompose scenes into interpretable object entities, termed slots. Slot-based auto-encoders stand out as a prominent method for this task. Within them, crucial aspects include guiding the encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Nikos Komodakis

Unsupervised object-centric learning from videos is a promising approach towards learning compositional representations that can be applied to various downstream tasks, such as prediction and reasoning. Recently, it was shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Cristian Meo , Akihiro Nakano , Mircea Lică , Aniket Didolkar , Masahiro Suzuki , Anirudh Goyal , Mengmi Zhang , Justin Dauwels , Yutaka Matsuo , Yoshua Bengio

Humans excel at abstracting data and constructing \emph{reusable} concepts, a capability lacking in current continual learning systems. The field of object-centric learning addresses this by developing abstract representations, or slots,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Vihang Patil , Andreas Radler , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter

Recent face anti-spoofing (FAS) methods have shown remarkable cross-domain performance by employing vision-language models like CLIP. However, existing CLIP-based FAS models do not fully exploit CLIP's patch embedding tokens, failing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jeongmin Yu , Susang Kim , Kisu Lee , Taekyoung Kwon , Won-Yong Shin , Ha Young Kim

Attention-based models have been widely used in many areas, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, relevant applications in time series classification (TSC) have not been explored deeply yet, causing a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Xinhan Wang , Fuhong Song , Zhiwen Xiao

Unsupervised multi-object segmentation has shown impressive results on images by utilizing powerful semantics learned from self-supervised pretraining. An additional modality such as depth or motion is often used to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

Intent detection (ID) and Slot filling (SF) are two major tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU). Recently, attention mechanism has been shown to be effective in jointly optimizing these two tasks in an interactive manner. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Dongsheng Chen , Zhiqi Huang , Xian Wu , Shen Ge , Yuexian Zou

We present SlotAdapt, an object-centric learning method that combines slot attention with pretrained diffusion models by introducing adapters for slot-based conditioning. Our method preserves the generative power of pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

Object-centric learning (OCL) seeks to learn representations that only encode an object, isolated from other objects or background cues in a scene. This approach underpins various aims, including out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Rubinstein , Ameya Prabhu , Matthias Bethge , Seong Joon Oh

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as a key approach in achieving artificial general intelligence. In particular, vision-language MLLMs have been developed to generate not only text but also visual outputs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Donghwan Chi , Hyomin Kim , Yoonjin Oh , Yongjin Kim , Donghoon Lee , Daejin Jo , Jongmin Kim , Junyeob Baek , Sungjin Ahn , Sungwoong Kim

Object-centric understanding is fundamental to human vision and required for complex reasoning. Traditional methods define slot-based bottlenecks to learn object properties explicitly, while recent self-supervised vision models like DINO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Stefan Harmeling

Convolutions (Convs) and multi-head self-attentions (MHSAs) are typically considered alternatives to each other for building vision backbones. Although some works try to integrate both, they apply the two operators simultaneously at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lei Zhu , Xinjiang Wang , Wayne Zhang , Rynson W. H. Lau

The ability to decompose complex multi-object scenes into meaningful abstractions like objects is fundamental to achieve higher-level cognition. Previous approaches for unsupervised object-oriented scene representation learning are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Zhixuan Lin , Yi-Fu Wu , Skand Vishwanath Peri , Weihao Sun , Gautam Singh , Fei Deng , Jindong Jiang , Sungjin Ahn

Multi-view learning can cover all features of data samples more comprehensively, so multi-view learning has attracted widespread attention. Traditional subspace clustering methods, such as sparse subspace clustering (SSC) and low-ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jian-wei Liu , Hao-jie Xie , Run-kun Lu , Xiong-lin Luo

Object-centric slot attention is an emerging paradigm for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable object-centric representations (slots). This enables effective reasoning about objects and events at a low computational cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Edward Zhang , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

The research study of detecting multiple intents and filling slots is becoming more popular because of its relevance to complicated real-world situations. Recent advanced approaches, which are joint models based on graphs, might still face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Thinh Pham , Chi Tran , Dat Quoc Nguyen

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

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