Summary of Learning Visual Composition Through Improved Semantic Guidance, by Austin Stone et al.
Learning Visual Composition through Improved Semantic Guidance
by Austin Stone, Hagen Soltau, Robert Geirhos, Xi Yi, Ye Xia, Bingyi Cao, Kaifeng Chen, Abhijit Ogale, Jonathon Shlens
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the limitation in visual representation learning by focusing on building better representations for interacting objects rather than individual ones. Existing methods, such as caption-based and contrastive learning approaches, treat an image as a bag of words, failing to capture compositional relationships. To overcome this limitation, the authors propose simple and scalable solutions that improve upon standard contrastive learning models. By leveraging weakly labeled data (captions), they demonstrate significant performance gains on challenging tasks, surpassing bespoke architectures. The paper also presents results on a new captioning benchmark derived from DOCCI, showcasing the effectiveness of their approach in image retrieval tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us understand how computers can learn to recognize patterns in images better. Right now, computer models are not very good at recognizing relationships between objects in an image. They just look at each object separately. The authors of this paper want to change that by developing simple and efficient ways to improve the way these models work. They show that by using captions (written descriptions) of images, they can make their models much better at recognizing patterns in images. This is important because it could help us use computers to do things like find specific images or recognize objects in real-life situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bag of words » Representation learning
