Caption Generation on Scenes with Seen and Unseen Object Categories

Abstract

Image caption generation is one of the most challenging problems at the intersection of vision and language domains. In this work, we propose a realistic captioning task where the input scenes may incorporate visual objects with no corresponding visual or textual training examples. For this problem, we propose a detection-driven approach that consists of a single-stage generalized zero-shot detection model to recognize and localize instances of both seen and unseen classes, and a template-based captioning model that transforms detections into sentences. To improve the generalized zero-shot detection model, which provides essential information for captioning, we define effective class representations in terms of class-to-class semantic similarities, and leverage their special structure to construct an effective unseen/seen class confidence score calibration mechanism. We also propose a novel evaluation metric that provides additional insights for the captioning outputs by separately measuring the visual and non-visual contents of generated sentences. Our experiments highlight the importance of studying captioning in the proposed zero-shot setting, and verify the effectiveness of the proposed detection-driven zero-shot captioning approach.

Accepted for Publication at Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS)

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