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# A Deeper Look at the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations in β-VAE from the Perspective of Core Object Recognition

@article{Sikka2020ADL,
title={A Deeper Look at the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations in $\beta$-VAE from the Perspective of Core Object Recognition},
author={Harshvardhan Digvijay Sikka},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2020},
volume={abs/2005.07114}
}
The ability to recognize objects despite there being differences in appearance, known as Core Object Recognition, forms a critical part of human perception. While it is understood that the brain accomplishes Core Object Recognition through feedforward, hierarchical computations through the visual stream, the underlying algorithms that allow for invariant representations to form downstream is still not well understood. (DiCarlo et al., 2012) Various computational perceptual models have been… Expand

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