Deep sprite-based image models: An analysis

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Autores principales: Baltacı, Zeynep Sonat, Loiseau, Romain, Aubry, Mathieu
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author Baltacı, Zeynep Sonat
Loiseau, Romain
Aubry, Mathieu
author_facet Baltacı, Zeynep Sonat
Loiseau, Romain
Aubry, Mathieu
contents While foundation models drive steady progress in image segmentation and diffusion algorithms compose always more realistic images, the seemingly simple problem of identifying recurrent patterns in a collection of images remains very much open. In this paper, we focus on sprite-based image decomposition models, which have shown some promise for clustering and image decomposition and are appealing because of their high interpretability. These models come in different flavors, need to be tailored to specific datasets, and struggle to scale to images with many objects. We dive into the details of their design, identify their core components, and perform an extensive analysis on clustering benchmarks. We leverage this analysis to propose a deep sprite-based image decomposition method that performs on par with state-of-the-art unsupervised class-aware image segmentation methods on the standard CLEVR benchmark, scales linearly with the number of objects, identifies explicitly object categories, and fully models images in an easily interpretable way.
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spellingShingle Deep sprite-based image models: An analysis
Baltacı, Zeynep Sonat
Loiseau, Romain
Aubry, Mathieu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While foundation models drive steady progress in image segmentation and diffusion algorithms compose always more realistic images, the seemingly simple problem of identifying recurrent patterns in a collection of images remains very much open. In this paper, we focus on sprite-based image decomposition models, which have shown some promise for clustering and image decomposition and are appealing because of their high interpretability. These models come in different flavors, need to be tailored to specific datasets, and struggle to scale to images with many objects. We dive into the details of their design, identify their core components, and perform an extensive analysis on clustering benchmarks. We leverage this analysis to propose a deep sprite-based image decomposition method that performs on par with state-of-the-art unsupervised class-aware image segmentation methods on the standard CLEVR benchmark, scales linearly with the number of objects, identifies explicitly object categories, and fully models images in an easily interpretable way.
title Deep sprite-based image models: An analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19480