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The Focus-Aspect-Polarity Model for Predicting Subjective Noun Attributes in Images

T. Karayil, P. Blandfort, J. Hees, A. Dengel

arXiv preprint||arXiv: 1810.06219
Visual AttributesSubjectivityDeep Learning

Abstract

We propose the Focus-Aspect-Polarity model to structure the process of capturing subjectivity in image processing, and introduce a novel dataset. We find that incorporating context information based on tensor multiplication outperforms concatenation for information fusion.

Abstract

Subjective visual interpretation is a challenging yet important topic in computer vision. Many approaches reduce this problem to the prediction of adjective- or attribute-labels from images. However, most of these do not take attribute semantics into account, or only process the image in a holistic manner. Furthermore, there is a lack of relevant datasets with fine-grained subjective labels.

The FAP Model

In this paper, we propose the Focus-Aspect-Polarity model to structure the process of capturing subjectivity in image processing, and introduce a novel dataset following this way of modeling. We run experiments on this dataset to compare several deep learning methods and find that incorporating context information based on tensor multiplication in several cases outperforms the default way of information fusion (concatenation).