I Walk the Line: Examining the Role of Gestalt Continuity in Object Binding for Vision Transformers

arXiv:2604.09942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object binding is a foundational process in visual cognition, during which low-level perceptual features are joined into object representations. Binding has been considered a fundamental challenge for neural networks, and a major milestone on the way to artificial models with flexible visual intelligence. Recently, several investigations have demonstrated evidence that binding mechanisms emerge in pretrained vision models, enabling them to associ