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A general-purpose model capable of image captioning in Korean and Englishand a method to generate text suitable for the purpose

한국어 및 영어 이미지 캡션이 가능한 범용적 모델 및 목적에 맞는 텍스트를 생성해주는 기법

  • Cho, Su Hyun (Department of Department of Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Oh, Hayoung (College of Computing and Informatics, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2022.05.03
  • Accepted : 2022.08.01
  • Published : 2022.08.31
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Abstract

Image Capturing is a matter of viewing images and describing images in language. The problem is an important problem that can be solved by keeping, understanding, and bringing together two areas of image processing and natural language processing. In addition, by automatically recognizing and describing images in text, images can be converted into text and then into speech for visually impaired people to help them understand their surroundings, and important issues such as image search, art therapy, sports commentary, and real-time traffic information commentary. So far, the image captioning research approach focuses solely on recognizing and texturing images. However, various environments in reality must be considered for practical use, as well as being able to provide image descriptions for the intended purpose. In this work, we limit the universally available Korean and English image captioning models and text generation techniques for the purpose of image captioning.

Image Captioning은 이미지를 보고 이미지를 언어로 설명하는 문제이다. 해당 문제는 이미지 처리와 자연어 처리 두 가지의 분야를 하나로 묵고 이해하고 하나로 묶어 해결할 수 있는 중요한 문제이다. 또한, 이미지를 자동으로 인식하고 텍스트로 설명함으로써 시각 장애인을 위해 이미지를 텍스트로 변환 후 음성으로 변환하여 주변 환경을 이해하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있으며, 이미지 검색, 미술치료, 스포츠 경기 해설, 실시간 교통 정보 해설 등 많은 곳에 적용할 수 있는 중요한 문제이다. 지금까지의 이미지 캡션 구 방식은 이미지를 인식하고 텍스트화시키는 데에만 집중하고 있다. 하지만 실질적인 사용을 하기 위해 현실의 다양한 환경이 고려되어야 하며 뿐만 아니라 사용하고자 하는 목적에 맞는 이미지 설명을 할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 범용적으로 사용 가능한 한국어 및 영어 이미지 캡션 모델과 이미지 캡션 목적에 맞는 텍스트 생성 기법을 제한한다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. NRF-2022R1F1A1074696).

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