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Commonsense Knowledge Aware Concept Selection For Diverse and Informative Visual Storytelling

5 Feb 2021arXiv:2102.02963archive 2025-07-28

Hong Chen, Yifei HUANG, Hiroya Takamura, Hideki Nakayama

Visual storytelling is a task of generating relevant and interesting stories for given image sequences. In this work we aim at increasing the diversity of the generated stories while preserving the informative content from the images. We propose to foster the diversity and informativeness of a generated story by using a concept selection module that suggests a set of concept candidates. Then, we utilize a large scale pre-trained model to convert concepts and images into full stories. To enrich the candidate concepts, a commonsense knowledge graph is created for each image sequence from which the concept candidates are proposed. To obtain appropriate concepts from the graph, we propose two novel modules that consider the correlation among candidate concepts and the image-concept correlation. Extensive automatic and human evaluation results demonstrate that our model can produce reasonable concepts. This enables our model to outperform the previous models by a large margin on the diversity and informativeness of the story, while retaining the relevance of the story to the image sequence.

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DiversityInformativenessVisual Storytelling

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Visual Storytelling VIST MCSM+RNN BLEU-3 23.1 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Storytelling VIST MCSM+RNN BLEU-4 13 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Storytelling VIST MCSM+RNN CIDEr 11 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Storytelling VIST MCSM+RNN METEOR 36.1 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Storytelling VIST MCSM+RNN ROUGE-L 30.7 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report

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