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Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations
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Despite progress in perceptual tasks such as image classification, computers still perform poorly on cognitive tasks such as image description and question answering. Cognition is core to tasks that involve not just recognizing, but reasoning about our visual world. However, models used to tackle the rich content in images for cognitive tasks are still being trained using the same datasets designed for perceptual tasks. To achieve success at cognitive tasks, models need to understand the interactions and relationships between objects in an image. When asked “What vehicle is the person riding?”, computers will need to identify the objects in an image as well as the relationships riding(man, carriage) and pulling(horse, carriage) to answer correctly that “the person is riding a horse-drawn carriage.” In this paper, we present the Visual Genome dataset to enable the modeling of such relationships. We collect dense annotations of objects, attributes, and relationships within each image to learn these models. Specifically, our dataset contains over 108K images where each image has an average of $$35$$ objects, $$26$$ attributes, and $$21$$ pairwise relationships between objects. We canonicalize the objects, attributes, relationships, and noun phrases in region descriptions and questions answer pairs to WordNet synsets. Together, these annotations represent the densest and largest dataset of image descriptions, objects, attributes, relationships, and question answer pairs.
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“Most datasets that are currently available for training question generation systems are crowd-sourced [42, 47, 84, 92, 114, 115, 119, 120, 122, 123], which largely impacts the quality of generated questions.”
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- Authors
- Krishna, R., Zhu, Y., Groth, O., Johnson, J., Hata, K., Kravitz, J., Chen, S., Kalantidis, Y., Li, L.-J., Shamma, D. A., Bernstein, M. S., & Fei-Fei, L.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- Yahoo (United States) (US)
- Snap (United States) (US)
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Krishna, Ranjay
- ORCID
- Venue
- International Journal of Computer Vision
- Published
- 2017-02-06
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 32-73
- ISSN
- 0920-5691 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-1405
- OpenAlex
- W2277195237
- Cited by
- 5,107
- References
- 123
- Citations by year
- 2026: 313 · 2025: 508 · 2024: 690 · 2023: 761 · 2022: 671 · 2021: 738 · 2020: 586 · 2019: 411 · 2018: 230 · 2017: 149
- FWCI
- 156.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Computer Vision (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Brown Institute for Media Innovation
- Yahoo Inc.
- Stanford University Computer Science Department
- Office of Naval Research
- Toyota USA
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- object relations, picture description, question answering, object properties, WordNet synsets, visual cognition, crowdsourced annotation
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