Text-Guided Image Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02996v2
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:36:13 GMT
• Title: Text-Guided Image Clustering
• Authors: Andreas Stephan, Lukas Miklautz, Kevin Sidak, Jan Philip Wahle, Bela Gipp, Claudia Plant, Benjamin Roth
• Abstract summary: We propose Text-Guided Image Clustering, i.e., generating text using image captioning and visual question-answering (VQA) models. Across eight diverse image clustering datasets, our results show that the obtained text representations often outperform image features.
• Score: 15.217924518131268
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image clustering divides a collection of images into meaningful groups, typically interpreted post-hoc via human-given annotations. Those are usually in the form of text, begging the question of using text as an abstraction for image clustering. Current image clustering methods, however, neglect the use of generated textual descriptions. We, therefore, propose Text-Guided Image Clustering, i.e., generating text using image captioning and visual question-answering (VQA) models and subsequently clustering the generated text. Further, we introduce a novel approach to inject task- or domain knowledge for clustering by prompting VQA models. Across eight diverse image clustering datasets, our results show that the obtained text representations often outperform image features. Additionally, we propose a counting-based cluster explainability method. Our evaluations show that the derived keyword-based explanations describe clusters better than the respective cluster accuracy suggests. Overall, this research challenges traditional approaches and paves the way for a paradigm shift in image clustering, using generated text.

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