We develop and demonstrate automatic image description methods using a large captioned photo collection. One contribution is our technique for the automatic collection of this new dataset -performing a huge number of Flickr queries and then filtering the noisy results down to 1 million images with associated visually relevant captions. Such a collection allows us to approach the extremely challenging problem of description generation using relatively simple non-parametric methods and produces surprisingly effective results. We also develop methods incorporating many state of the art, but fairly noisy, estimates of image content to produce even more pleasing results. Finally we introduce a new objective performance measure for image captioning.
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Despite progress in perceptual tasks such as image classification, computers still perform poorly on cognitive tasks such as image description and question answering. Cognition is core to tasks that involve not just recognizing, but reasoning about our visual world. However, models used to tackle the rich content in images for cognitive tasks are still being trained using the same datasets designed for perceptual tasks. To achieve success at cognitive tasks, models need to understand the interactions and relationships between objects in
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The PASCAL Visual Object Classes (VOC) challenge is a benchmark in visual object category recognition and detection, providing the vision and machine learning communities with a standard dataset of images and annotation, and standard evaluation procedures. Organised annually from 2005 to present, the challenge and its associated dataset has become accepted as the benchmark for object detection.This paper describes the dataset and evaluation procedure. We review the state-of-the-art in evaluated methods for both classification and detection, analyse whether the methods are statistically different, what they are learning from the images (e.g. the object or its context), and what the methods find easy or confuse. The paper concludes with lessons learnt in the three year history of the challenge, and proposes directions for future improvement and extension.
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The Flickr30k dataset has become a standard benchmark for sentence-based image description. This paper presents Flickr30k Entities, which augments the 158k captions from Flickr30k with 244k coreference chains, linking mentions of the same entities across different captions for the same image, and associating them with 276k manually annotated bounding boxes. Such annotations are essential for continued progress in automatic image description and grounded language understanding. They enable us to define a new benchmark for localization of textual entity mentions in an image. We present a strong baseline for this task that combines an image-text embedding, detectors for common objects, a color classifier, and a bias towards selecting larger objects. While our baseline rivals in accuracy more complex state-of-the-art models, we show that its gains cannot be easily parlayed into improvements on such tasks as image-sentence retrieval, thus underlining the limitations of current methods and the need for further research.
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Scene categorization is a fundamental problem in computer vision. However, scene understanding research has been constrained by the limited scope of currently-used databases which do not capture the full variety of scene categories. Whereas standard databases for object categorization contain hundreds of different classes of objects, the largest available dataset of scene categories contains only 15 classes. In this paper we propose the extensive Scene UNderstanding (SUN) database that contains 899 categories and 130,519 images. We use 397 well-sampled categories to evaluate numerous state-of-the-art algorithms for scene recognition and establish new bounds of performance. We measure human scene classification performance on the SUN database and compare this with computational methods. Additionally, we study a finer-grained scene representation to detect scenes embedded inside of larger scenes.
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We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader question of scene understanding. This is achieved by gathering images of complex everyday scenes containing common objects in their natural context. Objects are labeled using per-instance segmentations to aid in precise object localization. Our dataset contains photos of 91 objects types that would be easily recognizable by a 4 year old. With a total of 2.5 million labeled instances in 328k images, the creation of our dataset drew upon extensive crowd worker involvement via novel user interfaces for category detection, instance spotting and instance segmentation. We present a detailed statistical analysis of the dataset in comparison to PASCAL, ImageNet, and SUN. Finally, we provide baseline performance analysis for bounding box and segmentation detection results using a Deformable Parts Model.
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In this paper we introduce a new game to crowd-source natural language referring expressions. By designing a two player game, we can both collect and verify referring expressions directly within the game. To date, the game has produced a dataset containing 130,525 expressions, referring to 96,654 distinct objects, in 19,894 photographs of natural scenes. This dataset is larger and more varied than previous REG datasets and allows us to study referring expressions in real-world scenes. We provide an in depth analysis of the resulting dataset. Based on our findings, we design a new optimization based model for generating referring expressions and perform experimental evaluations on 3 test sets.
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The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge is a benchmark in object category classification and detection on hundreds of object categories and millions of images. The challenge has been run annually from 2010 to present, attracting participation from more than fifty institutions. This paper describes the creation of this benchmark dataset and the advances in object recognition that have been possible as a result. We discuss the chal-
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Automatically generating a natural language description of an image has attracted interests recently both because of its importance in practical applications and because it connects two major artificial intelligence fields: computer vision and natural language processing. Existing approaches are either top-down, which start from a gist of an image and convert it into words, or bottom-up, which come up with words describing various aspects of an image and then combine them. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that combines both approaches through a model of semantic attention. Our algorithm learns to selectively attend to semantic concept proposals and fuse them into hidden states and outputs of recurrent neural networks.The selection and fusion form a feedback connecting the top-down and bottom-up computation. We evaluate our algorithm on two public benchmarks: Microsoft COCO and Flickr30K. Experimental results show that our algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches consistently across different evaluation metrics.
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人们说：“一张照片值一千字”。那么，我们如何从图像中获取丰富的信息？我们认为，通过使用视觉线索来桥接大型的识别视觉基础模型和语言模型，我们可以无需任何额外的跨模式训练。得益于基础模型的强大零拍功能，我们首先构建图像的丰富语义表示（例如，图像标签，对象属性 /位置，字幕）作为结构化的文本提示，称为视觉线索，使用视觉基础模型。基于视觉线索，我们使用大型语言模型为视觉内容生成一系列综合描述，然后再次通过视觉模型验证，以选择与图像最合适的候选人。我们通过定量和定性测量评估生成的描述的质量。结果证明了这种结构化语义表示的有效性。
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以无监督的方式训练图像标题模型而不利用注释的图像标题对是朝向更广泛的文本和图像语料库的重要步骤。在监督设置中，图像标题对“良好匹配”，其中句子中提到的所有对象都显示在相应的图像中。然而，这些配对在无监督的环境中不可用。为了克服这一点，主要是在克服这方面有效的主要研究学院是根据它们对物体的重叠来构建训练集中的图像和文本的对。与监督设置不同，然而，这些构造的配对不保证具有完全重叠的对象集。我们本文的工作通过从训练集中收获对应于给定句子的对象来克服了这一点，即使它们不属于同一图像也是如此。当用作变压器的输入时，如果不是完整的对象覆盖，并且当由相应的句子监督时，这些物体的混合使得产生的结果通过显着的余量产生艺术无监督方法的最佳状态。在此发现时，我们进一步展示了（1）对象与物体属性之间关系的其他信息也有助于提高性能; （2）我们的方法也很好地延伸到非英语图像标题，这通常遭受稀缺的注释水平。我们的研究结果得到了强大的经验结果。
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Automatically describing an image with a sentence is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and natural language processing. Due to recent progress in object detection, attribute classification, action recognition, etc., there is renewed interest in this area. However, evaluating the quality of descriptions has proven to be challenging. We propose a novel paradigm for evaluating image descriptions that uses human consensus. This paradigm consists of three main parts: a new triplet-based method of collecting human annotations to measure consensus, a new automated metric (CIDEr) that captures consensus, and two new datasets: PASCAL-50S and ABSTRACT-50S that contain 50 sentences describing each image. Our simple metric captures human judgment of consensus better than existing metrics across sentences generated by various sources. We also evaluate five state-of-the-art image description approaches using this new protocol and provide a benchmark for future comparisons. A version of CIDEr named CIDEr-D is available as a part of MS COCO evaluation server to enable systematic evaluation and benchmarking.
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描述使用自然语言的图像被广泛称为图像标题，这是由于计算机视觉和自然语言生成技术的发展而达成了一致的进展。虽然传统的标题模型基于流行度量的高精度，即BLEU，苹果酒和香料，探索了标题与其他类似图像中的标题的能力。为了产生独特的标题，一些先驱采用对比学习或重新加权地面真理标题，其侧重于一个输入图像。然而，忽略了类似图像组中对象之间的关系（例如，相同专辑中的项目或属性或细粒度事件中的物品）。在本文中，我们使用基于组的独特标题模型（Gdiscap）来提高图像标题的独特性，其将每个图像与一个类似的组中的其他图像进行比较，并突出显示每个图像的唯一性。特别是，我们提出了一种基于组的内存注意力（GMA）模块，其存储在图像组中是唯一的对象特征（即，与其他图像中的对象的低相似性）。生成字幕时突出显示这些唯一的对象功能，从而产生更有独特的标题。此外，选择地面标题中的独特单词来监督语言解码器和GMA。最后，我们提出了一种新的评估度量，独特的单词率（Diswordrate）来测量标题的独特性。定量结果表明，该方法显着提高了几种基线模型的独特性，并实现了精度和独特性的最先进的性能。用户学习的结果与定量评估一致，并证明了新的公制Diswordrate的合理性。
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在本文中，我们构建了两个自动评估度量，用于评估机器生成的标题和地面真理体型中的关联：overtyle和风格德。
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2022-02-11
Recent years have witnessed the resurgence of knowledge engineering which is featured by the fast growth of knowledge graphs. However, most of existing knowledge graphs are represented with pure symbols, which hurts the machine's capability to understand the real world. The multi-modalization of knowledge graphs is an inevitable key step towards the realization of human-level machine intelligence. The results of this endeavor are Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs (MMKGs). In this survey on MMKGs constructed by texts and images, we first give definitions of MMKGs, followed with the preliminaries on multi-modal tasks and techniques. We then systematically review the challenges, progresses and opportunities on the construction and application of MMKGs respectively, with detailed analyses of the strength and weakness of different solutions. We finalize this survey with open research problems relevant to MMKGs.
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There is considerable interest in the task of automatically generating image captions. However, evaluation is challenging. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are primarily sensitive to n-gram overlap, which is neither necessary nor sufficient for the task of simulating human judgment. We hypothesize that semantic propositional content is an important component of human caption evaluation, and propose a new automated caption evaluation metric defined over scene graphs coined SPICE. Extensive evaluations across a range of models and datasets indicate that SPICE captures human judgments over model-generated captions better than other automatic metrics (e.g., system-level correlation of 0.88 with human judgments on the MS COCO dataset, versus 0.43 for CIDEr and 0.53 for METEOR). Furthermore, SPICE can answer questions such as which caption-generator best understands colors? and can caption-generators count?
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连接视觉和语言在生成智能中起着重要作用。因此，已经致力于图像标题的大型研究工作，即用句法和语义有意义的句子描述图像。从2015年开始，该任务通常通过由Visual Encoder组成的管道和文本生成的语言模型来解决任务。在这些年来，两种组件通过对象区域，属性，介绍多模态连接，完全关注方法和伯特早期融合策略的利用而显着发展。但是，无论令人印象深刻的结果，图像标题的研究还没有达到结论性答案。这项工作旨在提供图像标题方法的全面概述，从视觉编码和文本生成到培训策略，数据集和评估度量。在这方面，我们量化地比较了许多相关的最先进的方法来确定架构和培训策略中最有影响力的技术创新。此外，讨论了问题的许多变体及其开放挑战。这项工作的最终目标是作为理解现有文献的工具，并突出显示计算机视觉和自然语言处理的研究领域的未来方向可以找到最佳的协同作用。
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通用视觉（GPV）系统是旨在解决各种视觉任务的模型，而无需进行架构更改。如今，GPV主要从大型完全监督的数据集中学习技能和概念。通过获取数据以迅速学习每个技能的每个概念，将GPV扩展到数万个概念都变得令人望而却步。这项工作提出了一种有效且廉价的替代方法：从监督数据集中学习技能，从Web图像搜索中学习概念，并利用GPV的关键特征：跨技能传递视觉知识的能力。我们使用跨越10K+视觉概念的1M+图像的数据集来演示3个基准上的两个现有GPV（GPV-1和VL-T5）的Webly Supumented概念扩展：5个基于可可的数据集（80个主要概念），这是一个新的策划系列，这是一个新的策划系列。基于OpenImages和VisualGenome存储库（〜500个概念）以及Web衍生的数据集（10K+概念）的5个数据集。我们还提出了一种新的体系结构GPV-2，该架构支持各种任务 - 从分类和本地化等视觉任务到Qu Viewer+语言任务，例如QA和字幕，再到更多的利基市场，例如人类对象互动检测。 GPV-2从Web数据中受益匪浅，并且在这些基准测试中胜过GPV-1和VL-T5。我们的数据，代码和Web演示可在https://prior.allenai.org/projects/gpv2上获得。
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We present a model that generates natural language descriptions of images and their regions. Our approach leverages datasets of images and their sentence descriptions to learn about the inter-modal correspondences between language and visual data. Our alignment model is based on a novel combination of Convolutional Neural Networks over image regions, bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks over sentences, and a structured objective that aligns the two modalities through a multimodal embedding. We then describe a Multimodal Recurrent Neural Network architecture that uses the inferred alignments to learn to generate novel descriptions of image regions. We demonstrate that our alignment model produces state of the art results in retrieval experiments on Flickr8K, Flickr30K and MSCOCO datasets. We then show that the generated descriptions significantly outperform retrieval baselines on both full images and on a new dataset of region-level annotations.
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我们使用徒手场景草图FS-Coco的第一个数据集将草图研究推向了场景。考虑到实用的应用，我们收集的草图很好地传达了场景内容，但可以在几分钟之内由具有素描技巧的人勾勒出来。我们的数据集包含10,000个徒手场景向量素描，每点时空信息由100个非专家个人提供，提供对象和场景级抽象。每个草图都用文本描述增强。使用我们的数据集，我们首次研究了徒手场景草图和草图标题的细粒度图像检索问题。我们了解以下内容：（i）使用笔触的时间顺序在草图中编码的场景显着性； （ii）从场景草图和图像标题中进行图像检索的性能比较； （iii）素描和图像标题中信息的互补性，以及结合两种方式的潜在优势。此外，我们扩展了一个流行的矢量草图基于LSTM的编码器，以处理比以前的工作所支持的更复杂性的草图。也就是说，我们提出了一个层次草图解码器，我们将其在特定于草图的“预文本”任务中利用。我们的数据集可以首次研究徒手场景素描理解及其实际应用。
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