679 research outputs found
Unsupervised Discovery of Parts, Structure, and Dynamics
Humans easily recognize object parts and their hierarchical structure by
watching how they move; they can then predict how each part moves in the
future. In this paper, we propose a novel formulation that simultaneously
learns a hierarchical, disentangled object representation and a dynamics model
for object parts from unlabeled videos. Our Parts, Structure, and Dynamics
(PSD) model learns to, first, recognize the object parts via a layered image
representation; second, predict hierarchy via a structural descriptor that
composes low-level concepts into a hierarchical structure; and third, model the
system dynamics by predicting the future. Experiments on multiple real and
synthetic datasets demonstrate that our PSD model works well on all three
tasks: segmenting object parts, building their hierarchical structure, and
capturing their motion distributions.Comment: ICLR 2019. The first two authors contributed equally to this wor
Advancing Perception in Artificial Intelligence through Principles of Cognitive Science
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved many feats at a rapid
pace, there still exist open problems and fundamental shortcomings related to
performance and resource efficiency. Since AI researchers benchmark a
significant proportion of performance standards through human intelligence,
cognitive sciences-inspired AI is a promising domain of research. Studying
cognitive science can provide a fresh perspective to building fundamental
blocks in AI research, which can lead to improved performance and efficiency.
In this review paper, we focus on the cognitive functions of perception, which
is the process of taking signals from one's surroundings as input, and
processing them to understand the environment. Particularly, we study and
compare its various processes through the lens of both cognitive sciences and
AI. Through this study, we review all current major theories from various
sub-disciplines of cognitive science (specifically neuroscience, psychology and
linguistics), and draw parallels with theories and techniques from current
practices in AI. We, hence, present a detailed collection of methods in AI for
researchers to build AI systems inspired by cognitive science. Further, through
the process of reviewing the state of cognitive-inspired AI, we point out many
gaps in the current state of AI (with respect to the performance of the human
brain), and hence present potential directions for researchers to develop
better perception systems in AI.Comment: Summary: a detailed review of the current state of perception models
through the lens of cognitive A
- …