Most of current image captioning models heavily rely on paired image-caption datasets. However, getting large scale image-caption paired data is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we present a scene graph-based approach for unpaired image captioning. Our framework comprises an image scene graph generator, a sentence scene graph generator, a scene graph encoder, and a sentence decoder. Specifically, we first train the scene graph encoder and the sentence decoder on the text modality. To align the scene graphs between images and sentences, we propose an unsupervised feature alignment method that maps the scene graph features from the image to the sentence modality. Experimental results show that our proposed model can generate quite promising results without using any image-caption training pairs, outperforming existing methods by a wide margin.
Unpaired Image Captioning via Scene Graph Alignments
Jiuxiang Gu,Shafiq R. Joty,Jianfei Cai,Handong Zhao,Xu Yang,G. Wang
Published 2019 in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
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2019
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
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2019-03-26
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