Language and Vision Workshop


A workshop on

language and vision

at CVPR 2015

Thursday, 11 June 2015
Room 201; 8:50am to 5:30pm
Boston, Massachusetts

This workshop is co-organized by the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines.

Invited speakers


  • Fei-Fei Li

  • Song-Chun Zhu

  • Tomaso Poggio

  • Linda Smith

  • Tony Cohn

  • Jeffrey M. Siskind

  • Stefanie Tellex

  • Jason J. Corso

  • Patrick H. Winston

  • Joyce Chai

  • Kristen Grauman

Schedule

8:50 Introduction
9:00 Song-Chun Zhu
9:30 Linda Smith
10:00 Morning Break
10:15 Kristen Grauman
10:45 Jason J. Corso
11:15 Stefanie Tellex
11:45 Image Annotation Challenge Summary
12:15 Lunch
1:00 Poster session in the main ballroom
2:00 Jeffrey Mark Siskind
2:30 Joyce Chai
3:00 Patrick Winston
3:30 Afternoon Break
3:45 Tony Cohn
4:15 Fei-Fei Li
4:45 Tomaso Poggio
5:15 Discussion and Wrap Up

Accepted submissions

We accepted 14 submissions as posters. Note that this workshop has no archival copies, but we do link to arXiv when the authors requested we do so.
Tell and Predict: Kernel Classifier Prediction for Unseen Visual Classes from Unstructured Text Descriptions
Mohamed Elhoseiny, Ahmed Elgammal, and Babak Saleh
Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Description
Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell
Holistic Scene Understanding via Multiple Structured Hypotheses from Perception Modules
Aishwarya Agrawal, Yash Goyal
Language and Robots: An Extensible Language Interface for Robot Interaction
Jonathan Connell, Sharathchandra Pankanti, Lisa M. Brown
Interleaved Text/Image Deep Mining on a Large-Scale Radiology Database for Automated Image Interpretation
Hoo-Chang Shin, Le Lu, Lauren Kim, Ari Seff, Jianhua Yao, Ronald M. Summers
VQA: Visual Question Answering
Stanislaw Antol Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Margaret Mitchell, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Devi Parikh
Beyond “Single Snippet-Single Sentence” Video Description
Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach, Niket Tandon, Wei Qiu, Annemarie Friedrich, Manfred Pinkal, Bernt Schiele
Multimodal Stacked Denoising Autoencoders
Patrick Poirson, Michael Doran, Mubarak Shah
Zero-Shot Recognition with Unreliable Attributes
Dinesh Jayaraman, Kristen Grauman
Vision and Language, Helping a Robot to Reason about its Environment
Douglas Summers-Stay, Clare Voss, Taylor Cassidy
Extending The Guesser Based Model: Adding Absolute Location and Relative Attributes to Referring Expressions
Amir Sadovnik, Andrew Gallagher, Tsuhan Chen
Viralets: Learning from Viral Videos to Identify Semantic Highlight in Personal Videos
Kuo-Hao Zeng, Yen-Chen Lin, Ali Farhadi, Min Sun
Semantic Fusion of FMV and Chat Data for Activity Recognition
Charlotte Shabarekh, Georgiy Levchuk
Sequence to Sequence Video to Text
Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney, Trevor Darrell, Kate Saenko

Call

The interaction between language and vision, despite seeing traction as of late, is still largely unexplored. This is a particularly relevant topic to the vision community because humans routinely perform tasks which involve both modalities. We do so largely without even noticing. Every time you ask for an object, ask someone to imagine a scene, or describe what you're seeing, you're performing a task which bridges a linguistic and a visual representation. The importance of vision-language interaction can also be seen by the numerous approaches that often cross domains, such as the popularity of image grammars. More concretely, we've recently seen a renewed interest in one-shot learning for object and event models. Humans go further than this using our linguistic abilities; we perform zero-shot learning without seeing a single example. You can recognize a picture of a zebra after hearing the description "horse-like animal with black and white stripes" without ever having seen one.

Furthermore, integrating language with vision brings with it the possibility of expanding the horizons and tasks of the vision community. We have seen significant growth in image and video-to-text tasks but many other potential applications of such integration – answering questions, dialog systems, and grounded language acquisition – remain unexplored. Going beyond such novel tasks, language can make a deeper contribution to vision: it provides a prism through which to understand the world. A major difference between human and machine vision is that humans form a coherent and global understanding of a scene. This process is facilitated by our ability to affect our perception with high-level knowledge which provides resilience in the face of errors from low-level perception. It also provides a framework through which one can learn about the world: language can be used to describe many phenomena succinctly thereby helping filter out irrelevant details.

Topics covered:

  • language as a mechanism to structure and reason about visual perception,
  • language as a learning bias to aid vision in both machines and humans,
  • novel tasks which combine language and vision,
  • dialog as means of sharing knowledge about visual perception,
  • stories as means of abstraction,
  • transfer learning across language and vision,
  • understanding the relationship between language and vision in humans,
  • reasoning visually about language problems, and
  • joint video and language parsing.

The workshop will also include a challenge related to the 4th edition of the Scalable Concept Image Annotation Challenge one of the tasks of ImageCLEF. The Scalable Concept Image Annotation task aims to develop techniques to allow computers to reliably describe images, localize the different concepts depicted in the images and generate a description of the scene. The task directly related to this workshop is Generation of Textual Descriptions of Images.

We are calling for 1 to 2 page extended abstracts to be showcased at a poster session. Abstracts are not archival and will not be included in the Proceedings of CVPR 2015. We welcome both novel and previously-published work.

Contributions to the Generation of Textual Descriptions challenge will also be showcased at the poster session, and a summary of the results will be presented at the workshop.

Organizers

  • Andrei Barbu
    Postdoctoral Associate
    MIT
  • Georgios Evangelopoulos
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and MIT
  • Daniel Harari
    Postdoctoral Associate
    MIT
  • Krystian Mikolajczyk
    Reader in Robot Vision
    University of Surrey
  • Siddharth Narayanaswamy
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Stanford University
  • Caiming Xiong
    Postdoctoral Associate
    UCLA
  • Yibiao Zhao
    PhD student
    UCLA