Learning to Describe Differences Between Pairs of Similar Images
Harsh Jhamtani, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick · 2018
In this paper, we introduce the task of automatically generating text to describe the differences between two similar images.We collect a new dataset by crowd-sourcing difference descriptions for pairs of image frames extracted from video-surveillance footage.Annotators were asked to succinctly describe all the differences in a short paragraph.As a result, our novel dataset provides an opportunity to explore models that align language and vision, and capture visual salience.The dataset may also be a useful benchmark for coherent multi-sentence generation.We perform a firstpass visual analysis that exposes clusters of differing pixels as a proxy for object-level differences.We propose a model that captures visual salience by using a latent variable to align clusters of differing pixels with output sentences.We find that, for both single-sentence generation and as well as multi-sentence generation, the proposed model outperforms the models that use attention alone.