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Obj-GloVe: Scene-Based Contextual Object Embedding

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-07-03 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Recently, with the prevalence of large-scale image dataset, the co-occurrence information among classes becomes rich, calling for a new way to exploit it to facilitate inference. In this paper, we propose Obj-GloVe, a generic scene-based contextual embedding for common visual objects, where we adopt the word embedding method GloVe to exploit the co-occurrence between entities. We train the embedding on pre-processed Open Images V4 dataset and provide extensive visualization and analysis by dimensionality reduction and projecting the vectors along a specific semantic axis, and showcasing the nearest neighbors of the most common objects. Furthermore, we reveal the potential applications of Obj-GloVe on object detection and text-to-image synthesis, then verify its effectiveness on these two applications respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1907.01478,
  title  = {Obj-GloVe: Scene-Based Contextual Object Embedding},
  author = {Canwen Xu and Zhenzhong Chen and Chenliang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01478},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

14 pages; not the final version

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