DEJIMA: A Novel Large-scale Japanese Dataset for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering

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Autores principales: Katsube, Toshiki, Fukuhara, Taiga, Ando, Kenichiro, Mukuta, Yusuke, Uehara, Kohei, Harada, Tatsuya
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author Katsube, Toshiki
Fukuhara, Taiga
Ando, Kenichiro
Mukuta, Yusuke
Uehara, Kohei
Harada, Tatsuya
author_facet Katsube, Toshiki
Fukuhara, Taiga
Ando, Kenichiro
Mukuta, Yusuke
Uehara, Kohei
Harada, Tatsuya
contents This work addresses the scarcity of high-quality, large-scale resources for Japanese Vision-and-Language (V&L) modeling. We present a scalable and reproducible pipeline that integrates large-scale web collection with rigorous filtering/deduplication, object-detection-driven evidence extraction, and Large Language Model (LLM)-based refinement under grounding constraints. Using this pipeline, we build two resources: an image-caption dataset (DEJIMA-Cap) and a VQA dataset (DEJIMA-VQA), each containing 3.88M image-text pairs, far exceeding the size of existing Japanese V&L datasets. Human evaluations demonstrate that DEJIMA achieves substantially higher Japaneseness and linguistic naturalness than datasets constructed via translation or manual annotation, while maintaining factual correctness at a level comparable to human-annotated corpora. Quantitative analyses of image feature distributions further confirm that DEJIMA broadly covers diverse visual domains characteristic of Japan, complementing its linguistic and cultural representativeness. Models trained on DEJIMA exhibit consistent improvements across multiple Japanese multimodal benchmarks, confirming that culturally grounded, large-scale resources play a key role in enhancing model performance. All data sources and modules in our pipeline are licensed for commercial use, and we publicly release the resulting dataset and metadata to encourage further research and industrial applications in Japanese V&L modeling.
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spellingShingle DEJIMA: A Novel Large-scale Japanese Dataset for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering
Katsube, Toshiki
Fukuhara, Taiga
Ando, Kenichiro
Mukuta, Yusuke
Uehara, Kohei
Harada, Tatsuya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This work addresses the scarcity of high-quality, large-scale resources for Japanese Vision-and-Language (V&L) modeling. We present a scalable and reproducible pipeline that integrates large-scale web collection with rigorous filtering/deduplication, object-detection-driven evidence extraction, and Large Language Model (LLM)-based refinement under grounding constraints. Using this pipeline, we build two resources: an image-caption dataset (DEJIMA-Cap) and a VQA dataset (DEJIMA-VQA), each containing 3.88M image-text pairs, far exceeding the size of existing Japanese V&L datasets. Human evaluations demonstrate that DEJIMA achieves substantially higher Japaneseness and linguistic naturalness than datasets constructed via translation or manual annotation, while maintaining factual correctness at a level comparable to human-annotated corpora. Quantitative analyses of image feature distributions further confirm that DEJIMA broadly covers diverse visual domains characteristic of Japan, complementing its linguistic and cultural representativeness. Models trained on DEJIMA exhibit consistent improvements across multiple Japanese multimodal benchmarks, confirming that culturally grounded, large-scale resources play a key role in enhancing model performance. All data sources and modules in our pipeline are licensed for commercial use, and we publicly release the resulting dataset and metadata to encourage further research and industrial applications in Japanese V&L modeling.
title DEJIMA: A Novel Large-scale Japanese Dataset for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00773