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Slot Attention (SA) lies at the heart of mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL). Image features can be aggregated into object-level representations by SA \textit{iteratively} refining cold-start query slots. For video, such aggregation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Rongzhen Zhao , Wenyan Yang , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Object-centric learning (OCL) aspires general and compositional understanding of scenes by representing a scene as a collection of object-centric representations. OCL has also been extended to multi-view image and video datasets to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jinwoo Kim , Janghyuk Choi , Ho-Jin Choi , Seon Joo Kim

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

Unconditional scene inference and generation are challenging to learn jointly with a single compositional model. Despite encouraging progress on models that extract object-centric representations (''slots'') from images, unconditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Patrick Emami , Pan He , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

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

The de facto approach in video object-centric learning maintains temporal consistency through learned dynamics modules that predict future object representations, called slots. We demonstrate that these predictors function as expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhiyuan Li , Rongzhen Zhao , Wenyan Yang , Wenshuai Zhao , Pekka Marttinen , Joni Pajarinen

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

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

Unsupervised object-centric learning models, particularly slot-based architectures, have shown great promise in decomposing complex scenes. However, their reliance on reconstruction-based training creates a fundamental conflict between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hyun Seok Seong , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

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

Object-centric representation learning aims to decompose visual scenes into fixed-size vectors called "slots" or "object files", where each slot captures a distinct object. Current state-of-the-art object-centric models have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Rabiul Awal , Maximilian Seitzer , Efstratios Gavves , Aishwarya Agrawal

Unlike popular solutions based on dense feature maps, Object-Centric Learning (OCL) represents visual scenes as sub-symbolic object-level feature vectors, termed slots, which are highly versatile for tasks involving visual modalities. OCL…

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

The visual world can be parsimoniously characterized in terms of distinct entities with sparse interactions. Discovering this compositional structure in dynamic visual scenes has proven challenging for end-to-end computer vision approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Klaus Greff , Michael C. Mozer , Thomas Kipf

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

Our goal is to learn a deep network that, given a small number of images of an object of a given category, reconstructs it in 3D. While several recent works have obtained analogous results using synthetic data or assuming the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Philipp Henzler , Jeremy Reizenstein , Patrick Labatut , Roman Shapovalov , Tobias Ritschel , Andrea Vedaldi , David Novotny

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

Object-centric representations promise a key property for few-shot learning: Rather than treating a scene as a single unit, a model can decompose it into individual object-level parts that can be matched and compared across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam , Phu-Hoa Pham , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Huynh Trung Kiet , Long Tran-Thanh

Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS) aims at assigning a class label to each pixel, uniquely segmenting and identifying all object instances consistently across all frames. Classic solutions usually decompose the VPS task into several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yi Zhou , Hui Zhang , Hana Lee , Shuyang Sun , Pingjun Li , Yangguang Zhu , ByungIn Yoo , Xiaojuan Qi , Jae-Joon Han

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

Video-Language Models (VLMs), powered by the advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), are charting new frontiers in video understanding. A pivotal challenge is the development of an efficient method to encapsulate video content into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Jiaqi Xu , Cuiling Lan , Wenxuan Xie , Xuejin Chen , Yan Lu