Summary of Creating a Lens Of Chinese Culture: a Multimodal Dataset For Chinese Pun Rebus Art Understanding, by Tuo Zhang et al.
Creating a Lens of Chinese Culture: A Multimodal Dataset for Chinese Pun Rebus Art Understanding
by Tuo Zhang, Tiantian Feng, Yibin Ni, Mengqin Cao, Ruying Liu, Katharine Butler, Yanjun Weng, Mi Zhang, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Salman Avestimehr
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a new dataset called Pun Rebus Art Dataset, focused on understanding traditional Chinese art. The dataset consists of multimodal data for tasks such as identifying visual elements, matching symbols with meanings, and providing explanations for conveyed messages. State-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) struggle to perform these tasks accurately, often producing biased or hallucinated results. Despite in-context learning attempts, VLMs show limited improvement. The authors aim to promote the development of more inclusive VLMs that can better comprehend culturally specific content beyond English-based corpora. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about creating a new way for computers to understand art from China’s past. Right now, computers are great at understanding everyday things like news articles or social media posts. But they’re not very good at understanding art that has deep cultural meanings. The authors created a special dataset with lots of different types of Chinese art and asked the computer to do three tasks: identify important parts of the artwork, match those parts with what they mean, and explain what the artist was trying to say. The computers didn’t do very well on these tasks, often getting things wrong or making stuff up. By creating this dataset, the authors hope to help computers become better at understanding art from different cultures. |
