bootstrapping top-down information
Bootstrapping Top-down Information for Self-modulating Slot Attention
Object-centric learning (OCL) aims to learn representations of individual objects within visual scenes without manual supervision, facilitating efficient and effective visual reasoning. Traditional OCL methods primarily employ bottom-up approaches that aggregate homogeneous visual features to represent objects. However, in complex visual environments, these methods often fall short due to the heterogeneous nature of visual features within an object. To address this, we propose a novel OCL framework incorporating a top-down pathway. By dynamically modulating the model based on its own output, our top-down pathway enhances the representational quality of objects.