Unsupervised Multi-object Segmentation Using Attention and Soft-argmax

26 May 2022  ·  Bruno Sauvalle, Arnaud de La Fortelle ·

We introduce a new architecture for unsupervised object-centric representation learning and multi-object detection and segmentation, which uses a translation-equivariant attention mechanism to predict the coordinates of the objects present in the scene and to associate a feature vector to each object. A transformer encoder handles occlusions and redundant detections, and a convolutional autoencoder is in charge of background reconstruction. We show that this architecture significantly outperforms the state of the art on complex synthetic benchmarks.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Unsupervised Object Segmentation ClevrTex AST-Seg-B3-CT mIoU 79.58±0.54 # 1
MSE 139±7 # 1
Unsupervised Object Segmentation ClevrTex AST mIoU 66.62± 0.80 # 2
MSE 167± 1 # 3
Unsupervised Object Segmentation ObjectsRoom AST ARI-FG 0.87 # 1
Unsupervised Object Segmentation ShapeStacks AST ARI-FG 0.82 # 1

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