Title
Dixit: Interactive Visual Storytelling via Term Manipulation
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce Dixit, an interactive visual storytelling system that the user interacts with iteratively to compose a short story for a photo sequence. The user initiates the process by uploading a sequence of photos. Dixit first extracts text terms from each photo which describe the objects (e.g., boy, bike) or actions (e.g., sleep) in the photo, and then allows the user to add new terms or remove existing terms. Dixit then generates a short story based on these terms. Behind the scenes, Dixit uses an LSTM-based model trained on image caption data and FrameNet to distill terms from each image, and utilizes a transformer decoder to compose a context-coherent story. Users change images or terms iteratively with Dixit to create the most ideal story. Dixit also allows users to manually edit and rate stories. The proposed procedure opens up possibilities for interpretable and controllable visual storytelling, allowing users to understand the story formation rationale and to intervene in the generation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3308558.3314131
WWW '19: The Web Conference on The World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Interactive System, Visual Storytelling, Web Application
Journal
abs/1903.02230
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6674-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boyi Hou1115.36
Qun Chen201.35
Xin Liu300.68
Ping Zhong44011.34
Yanyan Wang501.01
Zhaoqiang Chen623.09
Zhanhuai Li775.97