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Object concepts play a foundational role in human visual cognition, enabling perception, memory, and interaction in the physical world. Inspired by findings in developmental neuroscience - where infants are shown to acquire object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haoqian Liang , Xiaohui Wang , Zhichao Li , Ya Yang , Naiyan Wang

Concept induction requires the extraction and naming of concepts from noisy perceptual experience. For supervised approaches, as the number of concepts grows, so does the number of required training examples. Philosophers, psychologists,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

In this work, we propose a new unsupervised image segmentation approach based on mutual information maximization between different constructed views of the inputs. Taking inspiration from autoregressive generative models that predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Heterogeneous graphs (HGs) are composed of multiple types of nodes and edges, making it more effective in capturing the complex relational structures inherent in the real world. However, in real-world scenarios, labeled data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruobing Jiang , Yacong Li , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu

Homography estimation is a basic image alignment method in many applications. It is usually conducted by extracting and matching sparse feature points, which are error-prone in low-light and low-texture images. On the other hand, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jirong Zhang , Chuan Wang , Shuaicheng Liu , Lanpeng Jia , Nianjin Ye , Jue Wang , Ji Zhou , Jian Sun

We present a new approach to instill 4D dynamic object priors into learned 3D representations by unsupervised pre-training. We observe that dynamic movement of an object through an environment provides important cues about its objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yujin Chen , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

The problem of identifying geometric structure in data is a cornerstone of (unsupervised) learning. As a result, Geometric Representation Learning has been widely applied across scientific and engineering domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Imran Nasim , Melanie Weber

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Humans have a remarkable ability to disentangle complex sensory inputs (e.g., image, text) into simple factors of variation (e.g., shape, color) without much supervision. This ability has inspired many works that attempt to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kartik Ahuja , Divyat Mahajan , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Ioannis Mitliagkas

Most real-world datasets consist of a natural hierarchy between classes or an inherent label structure that is either already available or can be constructed cheaply. However, most existing representation learning methods ignore this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aditya Sinha , Siqi Zeng , Makoto Yamada , Han Zhao

Many of the existing methods for learning joint embedding of images and text use only supervised information from paired images and its textual attributes. Taking advantage of the recent success of unsupervised learning in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Liang-Kang Huang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

Our goal is to extract meaningful transformations from raw images, such as varying the thickness of lines in handwriting or the lighting in a portrait. We propose an unsupervised approach to learn such transformations by attempting to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , John C. Duchi , Percy Liang

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

We present a new method to learn video representations from large-scale unlabeled video data. Ideally, this representation will be generic and transferable, directly usable for new tasks such as action recognition and zero or few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 AJ Piergiovanni , Anelia Angelova , Michael S. Ryoo

Text-to-image diffusion models generate highly detailed textures, yet they often rely on surface appearance and fail to follow strict geometric constraints, particularly when those constraints conflict with the style implied by the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Antara Titikhsha , Om Kulkarni , Dharun Muthaiah

In self-supervised learning, a system is tasked with achieving a surrogate objective by defining alternative targets on a set of unlabeled data. The aim is to build useful representations that can be used in downstream tasks, without costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey

Learning rich representation from data is an important task for deep generative models such as variational auto-encoder (VAE). However, by extracting high-level abstractions in the bottom-up inference process, the goal of preserving all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Zhiyuan Li , Jaideep Vitthal Murkute , Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Linwei Wang

This article proposes an active learning method for high dimensional data, based on intrinsic data geometries learned through diffusion processes on graphs. Diffusion distances are used to parametrize low-dimensional structures on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy