Visual COMET: Visual Commonsense Reasoning in Time
Reasoning about the Dynamic Context of a Still Image.
(ECCV20)
1.4M Visual Commonsense Inferences for 60K Images
Visual Commonsense Graphs
Even from a single frame of a still image, people can reason about the dynamic story of the image before, after, and beyond the frame. For example, given an image of a man struggling to stay afloat in water, we can reason that the man fell into the water sometime in the past, the intent of that man at the moment is to stay alive, and he will need help in the near future or else he will get washed away. We propose VisualCOMET, the novel framework of visual commonsense reasoning tasks to predict events that might have happened before, events that might happen after, and the intents of the people at present. To support research toward visual commonsense reasoning, we introduce the fi rst large-scale repository of Visual Commonsense Graphs that consists of over 1.4 million textual descriptions of visual commonsense inferences carefully annotated over a diverse set of 60,000 images. Each image is densely annotated with events at present, and the inferences are associated with each pair of event and image. In addition, we provide person-grounding (i.e., co-reference links) between people appearing in the image and people mentioned in the textual commonsense descriptions.
Dataset Overview
- 60K Images with Place Information
- 139K Events at Present
- 2.3 Events per Image
- 1.4 Million Total Inference Descriptions
- 580K Before Inference Descriptions (4.3 per Event at Present)
- 580K After Inference Descriptions (4.3 per Event at Present)
- 295K Inferences on Intent (2.1 per Event at Present)
- All Descriptions are Person Grounded with Bounding Boxes identified with their number IDs (ex: Person1, Person2).
Task: Generate a set of commonsense inferences on
- events that could've happened before
- events that can happen after
- people's intents at present