SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning
Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Abstract
Iterative Language-Based Image Editing (ILBIE) tasks follow iterative instructions to edit images step by step. Data scarcity is a significant issue for ILBIE as it is challenging to collect large-scale examples of images before and after instruction-based changes. Yet, humans still accomplish these editing tasks even when presented with an unfamiliar image-instruction pair. Such ability results from counterfactual thinking, the ability to think about possible alternatives to events that have happened already. In this paper, we introduce a Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning (SSCR) framework that incorporates counterfactual thinking to overcome data scarcity. SSCR allows the model to consider out-of-distribution instructions paired with previous images. With the help of cross-task consistency (CTC), we train these counterfactual instructions in a self-supervised scenario. Extensive results show that SSCR improves the correctness of ILBIE in terms of both object identity and position, establishing a new state of the art (SOTA) on two IBLIE datasets (i-CLEVR and CoDraw). Even with only 50% of the training data, SSCR achieves a comparable result to using complete data.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.emnlp-main.357
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4413–4422
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.357
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.357
- Cite (ACL):
- Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, and William Yang Wang. 2020. SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 4413–4422, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning (Fu et al., EMNLP 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/2020.emnlp-main.357.pdf
- Code
- tsujuifu/pytorch_sscr