MultiCapCLIP: Auto-Encoding Prompts for Zero-Shot Multilingual Visual Captioning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13218v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:32:34 GMT
• Title: MultiCapCLIP: Auto-Encoding Prompts for Zero-Shot Multilingual Visual Captioning
• Authors: Bang Yang, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Yaowei Wang, Xu Sun, and Yuexian Zou
• Abstract summary: MultiCapCLIP can generate visual captions for different scenarios and languages without any labeled vision-caption pairs of downstream datasets. Our method achieves 4.8% and 21.5% absolute improvements in terms of BLEU@4 and CIDEr metrics.
• Score: 108.12011636732674
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is time-consuming and expensive for many scenarios and languages. Therefore, sufficient labeled pairs are usually not available. To deal with the label shortage problem, we present a simple yet effective zero-shot approach MultiCapCLIP that can generate visual captions for different scenarios and languages without any labeled vision-caption pairs of downstream datasets. In the training stage, MultiCapCLIP only requires text data for input. Then it conducts two main steps: 1) retrieving concept prompts that preserve the corresponding domain knowledge of new scenarios; 2) auto-encoding the prompts to learn writing styles to output captions in a desired language. In the testing stage, MultiCapCLIP instead takes visual data as input directly to retrieve the concept prompts to generate the final visual descriptions. The extensive experiments on image and video captioning across four benchmarks and four languages (i.e., English, Chinese, German, and French) confirm the effectiveness of our approach. Compared with state-of-the-art zero-shot and weakly-supervised methods, our method achieves 4.8% and 21.5% absolute improvements in terms of BLEU@4 and CIDEr metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/yangbang18/MultiCapCLIP.

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