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From Node to Graph: Joint Reasoning on Visual-Semantic Relational Graph for Zero-Shot Detection
Hui Nie, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen
Zero-Shot Detection (ZSD), which aims at localizing andrecognizing unseen objects in a complicated scene, usuallyleverages the visual and semantic information of individ-ual objects alone. However, scene understanding of hu-man exceeds recognizing individual objects separately: thecontextual information among multiple objects such as vi-sual relational information (e.g. visually similar objects)and semantic relational information (e.g. co-occurrences)is helpful for understanding of visual scene. In this pa-per, we verify that contextual information plays a more im-portant role in ZSD than in traditional object detection.To make full use of such information, we propose a newend-to-end ZSD methodGRaphAligningNetwork (GRAN)based on graph modeling and reasoning which simultane-ously considers visual and semantic information of multipleobjects instead of individual objects. Specifically, we for-mulate a Visual Relational Graph (VRG) and a SemanticRelational Graph (SRG), where the nodes are the objectsin the image and the semantic representations of classes re-spectively and the edges are the relevance between nodesin each graph. To characterize mutual effect between twomodalities, the two graphs are further merged into a hetero-geneous Visual-Semantic Relational Graph (VSRG), wheremodal translators are designed for the two subgraphs to en-able modal information to transform into a common spacefor communication, and message passing among nodes isenforced to refine their representations. Comprehensive ex-periments on MSCOCO dataset demonstrate the advantageof our method over state-of-the-arts, and qualitative anal-ysis suggests the validity of using contextual information.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero-Shot Object Detection | MS-COCO | GRAN | Recall | 62.70 | #7 of 9 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Zero-Shot Object Detection | MS-COCO | GRAN | mAP | 14.90 | #7 of 9 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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