Towards Addressing the Misalignment of Object Proposal Evaluation for Vision-Language Tasks via Semantic Grounding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00215v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 02:19:41 GMT
• Title: Towards Addressing the Misalignment of Object Proposal Evaluation for Vision-Language Tasks via Semantic Grounding
• Authors: Joshua Feinglass and Yezhou Yang
• Abstract summary: The performance of object proposals generated for Vision-Language (VL) tasks is currently evaluated across all available annotations. Our work serves as a study of this phenomenon and explores the effectiveness of semantic grounding to mitigate its effects. We show that our method is consistent and demonstrates greatly improved alignment with annotations selected by image captioning metrics and human annotation.
• Score: 36.03994217853856
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Object proposal generation serves as a standard pre-processing step in Vision-Language (VL) tasks (image captioning, visual question answering, etc.). The performance of object proposals generated for VL tasks is currently evaluated across all available annotations, a protocol that we show is misaligned - higher scores do not necessarily correspond to improved performance on downstream VL tasks. Our work serves as a study of this phenomenon and explores the effectiveness of semantic grounding to mitigate its effects. To this end, we propose evaluating object proposals against only a subset of available annotations, selected by thresholding an annotation importance score. Importance of object annotations to VL tasks is quantified by extracting relevant semantic information from text describing the image. We show that our method is consistent and demonstrates greatly improved alignment with annotations selected by image captioning metrics and human annotation when compared against existing techniques. Lastly, we compare current detectors used in the Scene Graph Generation (SGG) benchmark as a use case, which serves as an example of when traditional object proposal evaluation techniques are misaligned.

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