Summary of Temporally Consistent Object-centric Learning by Contrasting Slots, By Anna Manasyan et al.
Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning by Contrasting Slots
by Anna Manasyan, Maximilian Seitzer, Filip Radovic, Georg Martius, Andrii Zadaianchuk
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel approach for unsupervised object-centric learning from videos, aiming to extract structured representations from large, unlabeled collections. The goal is to achieve both compositional and temporally consistent representations suitable for downstream tasks like autonomous control. Existing methods often lack long-term stability due to the training objective not enforcing temporal consistency. To address this, the authors propose a novel object-level temporal contrastive loss that explicitly promotes temporal consistency. This leads to improved temporal consistency in learned object-centric representations, enabling more reliable video decompositions and facilitating challenging downstream tasks like unsupervised object dynamics prediction. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about teaching machines to understand videos without being taught what’s happening. It’s like trying to figure out a puzzle from lots of different pieces. The goal is to make the machine understand how things move and change over time, so it can do things on its own. Right now, machines have trouble keeping track of objects moving in videos because they don’t pay attention to how things change over time. The authors came up with a new way to help machines learn from videos by paying attention to how things change over time. This makes the machine better at understanding what’s happening in the video and helps it do tasks like predicting where things will move next. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Contrastive loss » Unsupervised
