In this paper, we introduce a new task - interactive image editing via conversational language, where users can guide an agent to edit images via multi-turn natural language dialogue. In each dialogue turn, the agent takes a source image and a natural language description from the user as the input and generates a new image following the textual description. Two new datasets are introduced for this task, Zap-Seq, and DeepFashion-Seq. We propose a novel Sequential Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SeqAttnGAN) framework, which applies a neural state tracker to encode both the source image and the textual description in each dialogue turn and generates high-quality new image consistent with both the preceding images and the dialogue context. To achieve better region-specific text-to-image generation, we also introduce an attention mechanism into the model. Experiments on the two new datasets show that the proposed SeqAttnGAN model outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches on the dialogue-based image editing task. Detailed quantitative evaluation and user study also demonstrate that our model is more effective than SOTA baselines on image generation, in terms of both visual quality and text-to-image consistency.
Language-based image editing @cite_24 @cite_3 is a task designed for minimizing labor work while helping users create visual data. Specifically, systems that can perform automatic image editing should be able to understand which part of the image that the user is referring to. This is a very challenging task, which requires comprehensive understanding of both natural language and visual information. Following this thread, several studies have explored the task. Hu @cite_26 tackled the language-based image segmentation task, taking phrase as the input. Ramesh @cite_3 developed a system using simple language to modify the image, where a classification model is utilized to understand user intent. Wang @cite_5 proposed a neural model for global image editing.
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We investigate the problem of Language-Based Image Editing (LBIE). Given a source image and a natural language description, we want to generate a target image by editing the source image based on the description. We propose a generic modeling framework for two subtasks of LBIE: language-based image segmentation and image colorization. The framework uses recurrent attentive models to fuse image and language features. Instead of using a fixed step size, we introduce for each region of the image a termination gate to dynamically determine after each inference step whether to continue extrapolating additional information from the textual description. The effectiveness of the framework is validated on three datasets. First, we introduce a synthetic dataset, called CoSaL, to evaluate the end-to-end performance of our LBIE system. Second, we show that the framework leads to state-of-the-art performance on image segmentation on the ReferIt dataset. Third, we present the first language-based colorization result on the Oxford-102 Flowers dataset. We investigate the problem of Language-Based Image Editing (LBIE) in this work. Given a source image and a natural language description, we want to generate a target image by editing the source im- age based on the description. We propose a generic modeling framework for two sub-tasks of LBIE: language-based image segmentation and image colorization. The framework uses recurrent attentive models to fuse image and language features. Instead of using a fixed step size, we introduce for each re- gion of the image a termination gate to dynamically determine in each inference step whether to continue extrapolating additional information from the textual description. The effectiveness of the framework has been validated on three datasets. First, we introduce a synthetic dataset, called CoSaL, to evaluate the end-to-end performance of our LBIE system. Second, we show that the framework leads to state-of-the- art performance on image segmentation on the ReferIt dataset. Third, we present the first language-based colorization result on the Oxford-102 Flowers dataset, laying the foundation for future research. This paper introduces and summarises the findings of a new shared task at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: the generation of image descriptions in a target language, given an image and or one or more descriptions in a different (source) language. This challenge was organised along with the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16), and called for system submissions for two task variants: (i) a translation task, in which a source language image description needs to be translated to a target language, (optionally) with additional cues from the corresponding image, and (ii) a description generation task, in which a target language description needs to be generated for an image, (optionally) with additional cues from source language descriptions of the same image. In this first edition of the shared task, 16 systems were submitted for the translation task and seven for the image description task, from a total of 10 teams. Image captioning is a fundamental task which requires semantic understanding of images and the ability of generating description sentences with proper and correct structure. In consideration of the problem that language models are always shallow in modern image caption frameworks, a deep residual recurrent neural network is proposed in this work with the following two contributions. First, an easy-to-train deep stacked Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) language model is designed to learn the residual function of output distributions by adding identity mappings to multi-layer LSTMs. Second, in order to overcome the over-fitting problem caused by larger-scale parameters in deeper LSTM networks, a novel temporal Dropout method is proposed into LSTM. The experimental results on the benchmark MSCOCO and Flickr30K datasets demonstrate that the proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art performances with 101.1 in CIDEr on MSCOCO and 22.9 in B-4 on Flickr30K, respectively.