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Paper · 2207.13061 · ECCV · 2022

NewsStories: Illustrating articles with visual summaries

Bryan Plummer, Kate Saenko, Reuben Tan, J Lewis, Thomas Leung, Avneesh Sud

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Abstract

Recent self-supervised approaches have used large-scale imagetext datasets to learn powerful representations that transfer to many tasks without finetuning. These methods often assume that there is a one-to-one correspondence between images and their (short) captions. However, many tasks require reasoning about multiple images paired with a long text narrative, such as photos in a news article. In this work, we explore a novel setting where the goal is to learn a self-supervised visual-language representation from longer text paired with a set of photos, which we call visual summaries. In addition, unlike prior work which assumed captions have a literal relation to the image, we assume images only contain loose illustrative correspondence with the text. To explore this problem, we introduce a large-scale multimodal dataset called NewsStories containing over 31M articles, 22M images and 1M videos. We show that state-of-the-art image-text alignment methods are not robust to longer narratives paired with multiple images, and introduce an intuitive baseline that outperforms these methods, e.g., by 10% on on zero-shot image-set retrieval in the GoodNews dataset 1 .

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