# Conterfactual Generative Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

Source: [Conterfactual Generative Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa76b51e209131cea6e98c>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-28T13:57:12.945Z

Authors: Feihong Shen, Jun Liu, Ping Hu

Published: 2021-06-11T13:01:03.000Z

## Abstract

zero-shot learning is an essential part of computer vision. As a classical downstream task, zero-shot semantic segmentation has been studied because of its applicant value. One of the popular zero-shot semantic segmentation methods is based on the generative model Most new proposed works added structures on the same architecture to enhance this model. However, we found that, from the view of causal inference, the result of the original model has been influenced by spurious statistical relationships. Thus the performance of the prediction shows severe bias. In this work, we consider counterfactual methods to avoid the confounder in the original model. Based on this method, we proposed a new framework for zero-shot semantic segmentation. Our model is compared with baseline models on two real-world datasets, Pascal-VOC and Pascal-Context. The experiment results show proposed models can surpass previous confounded models and can still make use of additional structures to improve the performance. We also design a simple structure based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) in this work.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06360>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06360.pdf>)
