Measuring Image-Relation Alignment: Reference-Free Evaluation of VLMs and Synthetic Pre-training for Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation

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Autori principali: Neau, Maëlic, Falomir, Zoe, Buche, Cédric, Sugimoto, Akihiro
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author Neau, Maëlic
Falomir, Zoe
Buche, Cédric
Sugimoto, Akihiro
author_facet Neau, Maëlic
Falomir, Zoe
Buche, Cédric
Sugimoto, Akihiro
contents Scene Graph Generation (SGG) encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. Thanks to the advances of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the task of Open-Vocabulary SGG has been recently proposed where models are evaluated on their functionality to learn a wide and diverse range of relations. Current benchmarks in SGG, however, possess a very limited vocabulary, making the evaluation of open-source models inefficient. In this paper, we propose a new reference-free metric to fairly evaluate the open-vocabulary capabilities of VLMs for relation prediction. Another limitation of Open-Vocabulary SGG is the reliance on weakly supervised data of poor quality for pre-training. We also propose a new solution for quickly generating high-quality synthetic data through region-specific prompt tuning of VLMs. Experimental results show that pre-training with this new data split can benefit the generalization capabilities of Open-Voc SGG models.
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spellingShingle Measuring Image-Relation Alignment: Reference-Free Evaluation of VLMs and Synthetic Pre-training for Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
Neau, Maëlic
Falomir, Zoe
Buche, Cédric
Sugimoto, Akihiro
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Scene Graph Generation (SGG) encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. Thanks to the advances of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the task of Open-Vocabulary SGG has been recently proposed where models are evaluated on their functionality to learn a wide and diverse range of relations. Current benchmarks in SGG, however, possess a very limited vocabulary, making the evaluation of open-source models inefficient. In this paper, we propose a new reference-free metric to fairly evaluate the open-vocabulary capabilities of VLMs for relation prediction. Another limitation of Open-Vocabulary SGG is the reliance on weakly supervised data of poor quality for pre-training. We also propose a new solution for quickly generating high-quality synthetic data through region-specific prompt tuning of VLMs. Experimental results show that pre-training with this new data split can benefit the generalization capabilities of Open-Voc SGG models.
title Measuring Image-Relation Alignment: Reference-Free Evaluation of VLMs and Synthetic Pre-training for Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01209