Simple Image Description Generator via a Linear Phrase-Based Approach
Abstract
Generating a novel textual description of an image is an interesting problem that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a simple model that is able to generate descriptive sentences given a sample image. This model has a strong focus on the syntax of the descriptions. We train a purely bilinear model that learns a metric between an image representation (generated from a previously trained Convolutional Neural Network) and phrases that are used to described them. The system is then able to infer phrases from a given image sample. Based on caption syntax statistics, we propose a simple language model that can produce relevant descriptions for a given test image using the phrases inferred. Our approach, which is considerably simpler than state-of-the-art models, achieves comparable results on the recently release Microsoft COCO dataset.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.8419,
title = {Simple Image Description Generator via a Linear Phrase-Based Approach},
author = {Remi Lebret and Pedro O. Pinheiro and Ronan Collobert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8419},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted as a workshop paper at ICLR 2015