Title
Align2ground: Weakly Supervised Phrase Grounding Guided By Image-Caption Alignment
Abstract
We address the problem of grounding free-form textual phrases by using weak supervision from image-caption pairs. We propose a novel end-to-end model that uses caption-to-image retrieval as a "downstream" task to guide the process of phrase localization. Our method, as a first step, infers the latent correspondences between regions-of-interest (RoIs) and phrases in the caption and creates a discriminative image representation using these matched RoIs. In the subsequent step, this learned representation is aligned with the caption. Our key contribution lies in building this "caption-conditioned" image encoding which tightly couples both the tasks and allows the weak supervision to effectively guide visual grounding. We provide extensive empirical and qualitative analysis to investigate the different components of our proposed model and compare it with competitive baselines. For phrase localization, we report improvements of 4.9% and 1.3% (absolute) over prior state-of-the-art on the VisualGenome and Flickr30k Entities datasets. We also report results that are at par with the state-of-the-art on the downstream caption-to-image retrieval task on COCO and Flickr30k datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCV.2019.00269
2019 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2019)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2019
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-5499
3
0.41
References 
Authors
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samyak Datta1122.59
Karan Sikka227013.22
Anirban Roy330.75
Karuna Ahuja430.75
Devi Parikh52929132.01
Ajay Divakaran659850.83