Title
Dense Supervision for Visual Comparisons via Synthetic Images.
Abstract
Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual comparisons remains non-trivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in the number of training images, but also access to images adequately spanning the space of fine-grained visual differences is limited. We propose to overcome the sparsity of supervision problem via synthetically generated images. Building on a state-of-the-art image generation engine, we sample pairs of training images exhibiting slight modifications of individual attributes. Augmenting real training image pairs with these examples, we then train attribute ranking models to predict the relative strength of an attribute in novel pairs of real images. Our results on datasets of faces and fashion images show the great promise of bootstrapping imperfect image generators to counteract sample sparsity for learning to rank.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1612.06341
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu, Aron1864.29
Kristen Grauman26258326.34