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Yoni Friedman

3 accepted papers

2026

GenMatter: Perceiving Physical Objects with Generative Matter Models

CVPR 2026

Human visual perception offers valuable insights for understanding computational principles of motion-based scene interpretation. Humans robustly detect and segment moving entities that constitute independently moveable chunks of matter, whether observing sparse moving dots, textured surfaces, or na

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2024

Evaluating Multiview Object Consistency in Humans and Image Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

We introduce a benchmark to directly evaluate the alignment between human observers and vision models on a 3D shape inference task. We leverage an experimental design from the cognitive sciences: given a set of images, participants identify which contain the same/different objects, despite considera…

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2022

Unsupervised Segmentation in Real-World Images via Spelke Object Inference

ECCV 2022poster

"Self-supervised, category-agnostic segmentation of real-world images is a challenging open problem in computer vision. Here, we show how to learn static grouping priors from motion self-supervision by building on the cognitive science concept of a Spelke Object: a set of physical stuff that moves t…