Auto-Encoding and Distilling Scene Graphs for Image Captioning

We propose scene graph auto-encoder (SGAE) that incorporates the language inductive bias into the encoder-decoder image captioning framework for more human-like captions. Intuitively, we humans use the inductive bias to compose collocations and contextual inferences in discourse. For example, when we see the relation “a person on a bike”, it is natural to replace “on” with “ride” and infer “a pers...