文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Causal reasoning in typical computer vision tasks

作者：Zhang, Kexuan[1]; Sun, Qiyu[1]; Zhao, Chaoqiang[1]; Tang, Yang[1]

机构：[1] Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

年份：2023

外文期刊名：arXiv

收录：EI(收录号：20230261959)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Computer vision - Deep learning - Learning systems - Object recognition - Semantic Segmentation - Semantics

摘要：Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Based on the statistical correlations uncovered by deep learning-based methods, computer vision has contributed to tremendous growth in areas like autonomous driving and robotics. Despite being the basis of deep learning, such correlation is not stable and is susceptible to uncontrolled factors. In the absence of the guidance of prior knowledge, statistical correlations can easily turn into spurious correlations and cause confounders. As a result, researchers are now trying to enhance deep learning methods with causal theory. Causal theory models the intrinsic causal structure unaffected by data bias and is effective in avoiding spurious correlations. This paper aims to comprehensively review the existing causal methods in typical vision and vision-language tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and image captioning. The advantages of causality and the approaches for building causal paradigms will be summarized. Future roadmaps are also proposed, including facilitating the development of causal theory and its application in other complex scenes and systems. Copyright ? 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.