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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

Recent advances in object-centric representation learning have shown that slot attention-based methods can effectively decompose visual scenes into object slot representations without supervision. However, existing approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Huankun Sheng , Ming Li , Yixiang Wei , Yeying Fan , Yu-Hui Wen , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

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

Visual foundation models provide strong perceptual features for robotics, but their dense representations lack explicit object-level structure, limiting robustness and contractility in manipulation tasks. We propose STORM (Slot-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Alexandre Chapin , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

Self-supervised methods for learning object-centric representations have recently been applied successfully to various datasets. This progress is largely fueled by slot-based methods, whose ability to cluster visual scenes into meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Roland S. Zimmermann , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Thomas Kipf , Klaus Greff

Learning compositional representation is a key aspect of object-centric learning as it enables flexible systematic generalization and supports complex visual reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches rely on auto-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Jaehoon Yoo , Sungjin Ahn , Seunghoon Hong

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

Unsupervised object-centric learning aims to represent the modular, compositional, and causal structure of a scene as a set of object representations and thereby promises to resolve many critical limitations of traditional single-vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Gautam Singh , Yi-Fu Wu , Sungjin Ahn

The goal of self-supervised visual representation learning is to learn strong, transferable image representations, with the majority of research focusing on object or scene level. On the other hand, representation learning at part level has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

We present a novel framework for compositional video synthesis that leverages temporally consistent object-centric representations, extending our previous work, SlotAdapt, from images to video. While existing object-centric approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

Slot Attention, an approach that binds different objects in a scene to a set of "slots", has become a leading method in unsupervised object-centric learning. Most methods assume a fixed slot count K, and to better accommodate the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tianran Ouyang , Xingping Dong , Jing Zhang , Mang Ye , Jun Chen , Bo Du

Object-centric learning (OCL) extracts the representation of objects with slots, offering an exceptional blend of flexibility and interpretability for abstracting low-level perceptual features. A widely adopted method within OCL is slot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ke Fan , Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Max Horn , Yanwei Fu , Francesco Locatello , Zheng Zhang

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

This paper studies referring video object segmentation (RVOS) by boosting video-level visual-linguistic alignment. Recent approaches model the RVOS task as a sequence prediction problem and perform multi-modal interaction as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhuoyan Luo , Yicheng Xiao , Yong Liu , Shuyan Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Yujiu Yang

Automatically discovering composable abstractions from raw perceptual data is a long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recent slot-based neural networks that learn about objects in a self-supervised manner have made exciting progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Ondrej Biza , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Thomas Kipf

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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of learning visual representations from unlabeled scene-centric data. Existing works have demonstrated the potential of utilizing the underlying complex structure within scene-centric data; still, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Anlin Zheng , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

Extracting structured representations from raw visual data is an important and long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recently, techniques for unsupervised learning of object-centric representations have raised growing interest. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Majellaro , Jonathan Collu , Aske Plaat , Thomas M. Moerland

Unsupervised object-centric learning (OCL) decomposes visual scenes into distinct entities. Slot attention is a popular approach that represents individual objects as latent vectors, called slots. Current methods obtain these slot…

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

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