In this paper, we focus on the problem of unsupervised image-sentence matching. Existing research explores to utilize document-level structural information to sample positive and negative instances for model training. Although the approach achieves positive results, it introduces a sampling bias and fails to distinguish instances with high semantic similarity. To alleviate the bias, we propose a new sampling strategy to select additional intra-document image-sentence pairs as positive or negative samples. Furthermore, to recognize the complex pattern in intra-document samples, we propose a Transformer based model to capture fine-grained features and implicitly construct a graph for each document, where concepts in a document are introduced to bridge the representation learning of images and sentences in the context of a document. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach to alleviate the bias and learn well-aligned multimodal representations.
@article{arxiv.2104.02605,
title = {An Unsupervised Sampling Approach for Image-Sentence Matching Using Document-Level Structural Information},
author = {Zejun Li and Zhongyu Wei and Zhihao Fan and Haijun Shan and Xuanjing Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02605},
year = {2021}
}