TARN-VIST: Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for Visual Storytelling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11550v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:01:23 GMT
• Title: TARN-VIST: Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for Visual Storytelling
• Authors: Weiran Chen, Xin Li, Jiaqi Su, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, Chunping Liu,
• Abstract summary: As a cross-modal task, visual storytelling aims to generate a story for an ordered image sequence automatically. We propose a novel method, Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for VIsual StoryTelling (TARN-VIST) In particular, we pre-extracted the topic information of stories from both visual and linguistic perspectives.
• Score: 14.15543866199545
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As a cross-modal task, visual storytelling aims to generate a story for an ordered image sequence automatically. Different from the image captioning task, visual storytelling requires not only modeling the relationships between objects in the image but also mining the connections between adjacent images. Recent approaches primarily utilize either end-to-end frameworks or multi-stage frameworks to generate relevant stories, but they usually overlook latent topic information. In this paper, in order to generate a more coherent and relevant story, we propose a novel method, Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for VIsual StoryTelling (TARN-VIST). In particular, we pre-extracted the topic information of stories from both visual and linguistic perspectives. Then we apply two topic-consistent reinforcement learning rewards to identify the discrepancy between the generated story and the human-labeled story so as to refine the whole generation process. Extensive experimental results on the VIST dataset and human evaluation demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms most of the competitive models across multiple evaluation metrics.

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