{"id":23,"date":"2026-05-06T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:12:15","slug":"method","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/method\/","title":{"rendered":"Method"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM.png 1900w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM-1024x308.png 1024w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM-768x231.png 768w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-10.07.54-PM-1536x462.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4f868c22fcedc2142d87e05108066539\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-base-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-873ee6b1 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7ee84d44 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-353c4f5a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1\">We propose <strong>Slot4D<\/strong>, a framework that combines a frozen <strong>VGGT-style backbone<\/strong> with a <strong>Slot Attention module<\/strong> to learn object-centric representations in dynamic scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>VGGT backbone<\/strong> extracts geometry-aware features, including dense 3D point maps and visual embeddings from multi-view inputs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <strong>Slot Attention module<\/strong> operates on these features, where a fixed set of slots iteratively attends to and groups pixels\/points into object-centric representations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slot assignment is guided by <strong>visual similarity and spatial proximity<\/strong>, enabling grouping in <strong>4D (3D space + time)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each slot is decoded to reconstruct its contribution to the scene, producing <strong>object masks and slot-wise reconstructions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--2\">This design enables <strong>consistent object grouping across frames<\/strong> and moves beyond point-based tracking toward <strong>structured, object-centric 4D understanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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