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Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
Maxime Bucher · Tuan-Hung VU · Matthieu Cord · Patrick Pérez

Wed Dec 11 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM (PST) @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #75
in Applications -- Computer Vision »

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object categories with zero training examples. To this end, we present a novel architecture, ZS3Net, combining a deep visual segmentation model with an approach to generate visual representations from semantic word embeddings. By this way, ZS3Net addresses pixel classification tasks where both seen and unseen categories are faced at test time (so called generalized zero-shot classification). Performance is further improved by a self-training step that relies on automatic pseudo-labeling of pixels from unseen classes. On the two standard segmentation datasets, Pascal-VOC and Pascal-Context, we propose zero-shot benchmarks and set competitive baselines. For complex scenes as ones in the Pascal-Context dataset, we extend our approach by using a graph-context encoding to fully leverage spatial context priors coming from class-wise segmentation maps.

Keywords: Computer Vision · Image Segmentation · Applications · Algorithms -> Few-Shot Learning; Applications
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Author Information

Maxime Bucher (Valeo.ai)
Tuan-Hung VU (Valeo.ai)
Matthieu Cord (Sorbonne University)
Patrick Pérez (Valeo.ai)

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