Learning Visual N-Grams From Web Data

Ang Li, Allan Jabri, Armand Joulin, Laurens van der Maaten; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017, pp. 4183-4192

Abstract


Real-world image recognition systems need to recognize tens of thousands of classes that constitute a plethora of visual concepts. The traditional approach of annotating thousands of images per class for training is infeasible in such a scenario, prompting the use of webly supervised data. This paper explores the training of image-recognition systems on large numbers of images and associated user comments. In particular, we develop visual n-gram models that can predict arbitrary phrases that are relevant to the content of an image. Our visual n-gram models are feed-forward convolutional networks trained using new loss functions that are inspired by n-gram models commonly used in language modeling. We demonstrate the merits of our models in phrase prediction, phrase-based image retrieval, relating images and captions, and zero-shot transfer.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Li_2017_ICCV,
author = {Li, Ang and Jabri, Allan and Joulin, Armand and van der Maaten, Laurens},
title = {Learning Visual N-Grams From Web Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {Oct},
year = {2017}
}