Title
Configurable Graph Reasoning for Visual Relationship Detection
Abstract
Visual commonsense knowledge has received growing attention in the reasoning of long-tailed visual relationships biased in terms of object and relation labels. Most current methods typically collect and utilize external knowledge for visual relationships by following the fixed reasoning path of {subject, object <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\to $ </tex-math></inline-formula> predicate} to facilitate the recognition of infrequent relationships. However, the knowledge incorporation for such fixed multidependent path suffers from the data set biased and exponentially grown combinations of object and relation labels and ignores the semantic gap between commonsense knowledge and real scenes. To alleviate this, we propose configurable graph reasoning (CGR) to decompose the reasoning path of visual relationships and the incorporation of external knowledge, achieving configurable knowledge selection and personalized graph reasoning for each relation type in each image. Given a commonsense knowledge graph, CGR learns to match and retrieve knowledge for different subpaths and selectively compose the knowledge routed path. CGR adaptively configures the reasoning path based on the knowledge graph, bridges the semantic gap between the commonsense knowledge, and the real-world scenes and achieves better knowledge generalization. Extensive experiments show that CGR consistently outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on several popular benchmarks and works well with different knowledge graphs. Detailed analyses demonstrated that CGR learned explainable and compelling configurations of reasoning paths.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3027575
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Graph learning,scene graph generation,visual reasoning,visual relationship detection (VRD)
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2162-237X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Zhu1174.27
Xiaodan Liang2109677.53
Bingqian Lin362.46
Qixiang Ye491364.51
Jianbin Jiao536732.61
Liang Lin63007151.07
Xiaodan Liang710.36