Guiding the Long-Short Term Memory Model for Image Caption Generation

Xu Jia, Efstratios Gavves, Basura Fernando, Tinne Tuytelaars
2015 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)  
In this work we focus on the problem of image caption generation. We propose an extension of the long short term memory (LSTM) model, which we coin gLSTM for short. In particular, we add semantic information extracted from the image as extra input to each unit of the LSTM block, with the aim of guiding the model towards solutions that are more tightly coupled to the image content. Additionally, we explore different length normalization strategies for beam search to avoid bias towards short
more » ... nces. On various benchmark datasets such as Flickr8K, Flickr30K and MS COCO, we obtain results that are on par with or better than the current state-of-the-art. * This work was carried out while he was in KU Leuven ESAT-PSI. a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a bench a man in a red shirt stands on a bull
doi:10.1109/iccv.2015.277 dblp:conf/iccv/JiaGFT15 fatcat:zavbil3m6fdvljmtypczbn4exi