Title
Adopting Abstract Images for Semantic Scene Understanding
Abstract
Relating visual information to its linguistic semantic meaning remains an open and challenging area of research. The semantic meaning of images depends on the presence of objects, their attributes and their relations to other objects. But precisely characterizing this dependence requires extracting complex visual information from an image, which is in general a difficult and yet unsolved problem. In this paper, we propose studying semantic information in abstract images created from collections of clip art. Abstract images provide several advantages. They allow for the direct study of how to infer high-level semantic information, since they remove the reliance on noisy low-level object, attribute and relation detectors, or the tedious hand-labeling of images. Importantly, abstract images also allow the ability to generate sets of semantically similar scenes. Finding analogous sets of semantically similar real images would be nearly impossible. We create 1,002 sets of 10 semantically similar abstract images with corresponding written descriptions. We thoroughly analyze this dataset to discover semantically important features, the relations of words to visual features and methods for measuring semantic similarity. Finally, we study the relation between the saliency and memorability of objects and their semantic importance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2366143
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
abstract images,linguistic meaning,memorability,saliency,semantic scene understanding
Journal
PP
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
99
0162-8828
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.90
46
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Lawrence Zitnick17321332.72
Ramakrishna Vedantam251820.31
Devi Parikh32929132.01