Title
Improving Weakly Supervised Visual Grounding by Contrastive Knowledge Distillation
Abstract
Weakly supervised phrase grounding aims at learning region-phrase correspondences using only image-sentence pairs. A major challenge thus lies in the missing links between image regions and sentence phrases during training. To address this challenge, we leverage a generic object detector at training time, and propose a contrastive learning framework that accounts for both region-phrase and image-sentence matching. Our core innovation is the learning of a region-phrase score function, based on which an image-sentence score function is further constructed. Importantly, our region-phrase score function is learned by distilling from soft matching scores between the detected object names and candidate phrases within an image-sentence pair, while the image-sentence score function is supervised by ground-truth image-sentence pairs. The design of such score functions removes the need of object detection at test time, thereby significantly reducing the inference cost. Without bells and whistles, our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on visual phrase grounding, surpassing previous methods that require expensive object detectors at test time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.01387
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liwei Wang1127288.14
Jing Huang22464186.09
Yin Li379735.85
Kun Xu400.34
Zhengyuan Yang5435.51
Dong Yu66264475.73