Computational Methods for Integrating Vision and Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-60845-112-8
Verlag: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision

Modeling data from visual and linguistic modalities together creates opportunities for better understanding of both, and supports many useful applications. Examples of dual visual-linguistic data includes images with keywords, video with narrative, and figures in documents. We consider two key task-driven themes: translating from one modality to another (e.g., inferring annotations for images) and understanding the data using all modalities, where one modality can help disambiguate information in another. The multiple modalities can either be essentially semantically redundant (e.g., keywords provided by a person looking at the image), or largely complementary (e.g., meta data such as the camera used). Redundancy and complementarity are two endpoints of a scale, and we observe that good performance on translation requires some redundancy, and that joint inference is most useful where some information is complementary.Computational methods discussed are broadly organized into ones for simple keywords, ones going beyond keywords toward natural language, and ones considering sequential aspects of natural language. Methods for keywords are further organized based on localization of semantics, going from words about the scene taken as whole, to words that apply to specific parts of the scene, to relationships between parts. Methods going beyond keywords are organized by the linguistic roles that are learned, exploited, or generated. These include proper nouns, adjectives, spatial and comparative prepositions, and verbs. More recent developments in dealing with sequential structure include automated captioning of scenes and video, alignment of video and text, and automated answering of questions about scenes depicted in images.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Figure Credits
- Introduction
- The Semantics of Images and Associated Text
- Sources of Data for Linking Visual and Linguistic Information
- Extracting and Representing Visual Information
- Text and Speech Processing
- Modeling Images and Keywords
- Beyond Simple Nouns
- Sequential Structure
- Bibliography
- Author's Biography