Summary of Explicitly Disentangled Representations in Object-centric Learning, by Riccardo Majellaro et al.
Explicitly Disentangled Representations in Object-Centric Learning
by Riccardo Majellaro, Jonathan Collu, Aske Plaat, Thomas M. Moerland
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle the long-standing challenge of extracting structured representations from raw visual data. They focus on enhancing the robustness of latent features by disentangling factors that cause variation in the data. Building upon previous work, they propose a novel architecture that biases object-centric models to separate shape and texture components into distinct subsets of latent space dimensions. Experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate that this approach achieves desired disentanglement while also improving baseline performance. Additionally, it enables generating novel textures for specific objects or transferring textures between objects with different shapes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand how to extract useful information from visual data. The goal is to make computers smarter by teaching them to recognize patterns in pictures and videos. The researchers are trying to figure out how to separate the different parts of an image, like shape and texture. They want to do this so that computers can learn more quickly and accurately about what they’re looking at. By doing this, they hope to improve how well computers can recognize objects and scenes. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Latent space
