Object Representations for Learning and Reasoning

Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

December 11, 2020, Virtual Workshop

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Throughout the day we will be livestreaming invited talks, contributed talks, lightning talks, and a live panel discussion. We will also have two virtual poster sessions take place in gather town. All times listed are in PST. The workshop adheres to to the NeurIPS Code of Conduct. Please contact the organizers with any concerns.


Invited/Keynote Talk, Contributed Talk, Lightning Talks, Poster Session, Other.

Time (PST) Speaker/Moderator Title
08:00 AM Organizers Opening Remarks
08:15 AM Elizabeth Spelke Core Knowledge, Language and Objects
09:00 AM Lightning Talks
09:30 AM Virtual Poster Session #1 in ORLR GatherTown
10:30 AM Klaus Greff Panel Discussion 1 with Jessica Hamrick, Irina Higgins, Michelle Lee, and Josh Tenenbaum
11:45 AM Break / Discussion in ORLR GatherTown
12:25 PM Jessica Hamrick Structured agents for object-centric reasoning
12:55 PM Irina Higgins What is an object?
01:25 PM Sungjin Ahn Unsupervising Vision via Object-Centric World Models
01:55 PM Patrick Emami A Symmetric and Object-Centric World Model for Stochastic Environments
02:07 PM Kelsey Allen OGRE: An Object-based Generalization for Reasoning Environment
02:19 PM Wilka Carvalho Learning Object-interaction Tasks with Less Supervision by Learning an Attentive Object-model
02:49 PM Break / Discussion in ORLR GatherTown
03:20 PM Renée Baillargeon How Infants Represent Objects in Physical Events
03:50 PM Dieter Fox Object representations for robot manipulation
04:20 PM Mihir Prabhudesai Disentangling 3D Prototypical Networks for Few-Shot Concept Learning
04:32 PM Danfei Xu Deep Affordance Foresight: Planning for What Can Be Done Next
04:44 PM Niranjan Kumar Kannabiran Estimating Mass Distribution of Articulated Objects using Non-prehensile Manipulation
04:56 PM Rachit Dubey Panel Discussion 2 with Wilka Carvalho, Judy Fan, Tejas Kulkarni, and Christopher Xie
06:10 PM Organizers Concluding Remarks
06:15 PM Virtual Poster Session #2 in ORLR GatherTown