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New Hierarchical Slot Attention model learns multi-level semantic scene decomposition

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Researchers have developed Hierarchical Slot Attention (HSA), a novel framework for semantic scene decomposition that learns multi-granularity representations from a single model. Unlike previous methods that produced flat, appearance-based decompositions, HSA identifies hierarchies at holistic (foreground/background), semantic (object categories), and panoptic (individual instances) levels. By utilizing only 10% labeled data and a hierarchical alignment loss, HSA achieves significant performance gains on COCO and PASCAL VOC datasets compared to flat baselines. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Neelu Madan, Rongzhen Zhao, Andreas Mogelmose, Juho Kannala, Joni Pajarinen, Graham W. Taylor, Thomas B. Moeslund ·

    HSA: Hierarchical Slot Attention for Multi-granularity Scene-Decomposition

    arXiv:2607.08249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slot attention is a powerful framework for object-centric learning, decomposing visual scenes into latent slots through iterative competitive attention. However, existing methods share two critical limitations: they decompose scenes…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Thomas B. Moeslund ·

    HSA: Hierarchical Slot Attention for Multi-granularity Scene-Decomposition

    Slot attention is a powerful framework for object-centric learning, decomposing visual scenes into latent slots through iterative competitive attention. However, existing methods share two critical limitations: they decompose scenes into a flat set of slots at a single granularit…

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