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Visual Commonsense R-CNN

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Wang, Tan, Huang, Jianqiang, Zhang, Hanwang, Sun, Qianru·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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We present a novel unsupervised feature representation learning method, Visual Commonsense Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (VC R-CNN), to serve as an improved visual region encoder for high-level tasks such as captioning and VQA. Given a set of detected object regions in an image (e.g., using Faster R-CNN), like any other unsupervised feature learning methods (e.g., word2vec), the proxy training objective of VC R-CNN is to predict the contextual objects of a region. However, they are fundamentally different: the prediction of VC R-CNN is by using causal intervention: P(Y|do(X)), while others are by using the conventional likelihood: P(Y|X). This is also the core reason why VC R-CNN can learn “sense-making” knowledge like chair can be sat - while not just “common” co-occurrences such as chair is likely to exist if table is observed. We extensively apply VC R-CNN features in prevailing models of three popular tasks: Image Captioning, VQA, and VCR, and observe consistent performance boosts across them, achieving many new state-of-the-arts.

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Authors
Wang, T., Huang, J., Zhang, H., & Sun, Q.
Affiliations
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
  • Nanyang Technological University (SG)
  • Singapore Management University (SG)
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
10757-10767
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3035651653
Cited by
291
References
91
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 10
FWCI
13.88
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Keywords
unsupervised feature learning, visual commonsense reasoning, R-CNN, causal intervention, image captioning, visual question answering

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