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Enhancing Scene Graph Generation with Hierarchical Relationships and Commonsense Knowledge

21 Nov 2023arXiv:2311.12889archive 2025-07-28

Bowen Jiang, Zhijun Zhuang, Shreyas S. Shivakumar, Camillo J. Taylor

This work introduces an enhanced approach to generating scene graphs by incorporating both a relationship hierarchy and commonsense knowledge. Specifically, we begin by proposing a hierarchical relation head that exploits an informative hierarchical structure. It jointly predicts the relation super-category between object pairs in an image, along with detailed relations under each super-category. Following this, we implement a robust commonsense validation pipeline that harnesses foundation models to critique the results from the scene graph prediction system, removing nonsensical predicates even with a small language-only model. Extensive experiments on Visual Genome and OpenImage V6 datasets demonstrate that the proposed modules can be seamlessly integrated as plug-and-play enhancements to existing scene graph generation algorithms. The results show significant improvements with an extensive set of reasonable predictions beyond dataset annotations. Codes are available at https://github.com/bowen-upenn/scene_graph_commonsense.

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Large Language ModelMultimodal Deep LearningPredicate ClassificationScene Graph ClassificationScene Graph DetectionScene Graph GenerationScene Understanding

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