No Culture Left Behind: ArtELingo-28, a Benchmark of WikiArt with Captions in 28 Languages

Runjia Li

Ibrahim Said Ahmad

Kilichbek Haydarov

Philip Torr

Kenneth Ward Church

Mohamed Elhoseiny

 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),  University of Oxford, Northeastern University

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Abstract

Research in vision and language has made considerable progress thanks to benchmarks such as COCO. COCO captions focused on unambiguous facts in English; ArtEmis introduced subjective emotions and ArtELingo introduced some multilinguality (Chinese and Arabic). However we believe there should be more multilinguality. Hence, we present ArtELingo-28, a vision-language benchmark that spans 28 languages and encompasses approximately 200,000 annotations (140 annotations per image). Traditionally, vision research focused on unambiguous class labels, whereas ArtELingo-28 emphasizes diversity of opinions over languages and cultures. The challenge is to build machine learning systems that assign emotional captions to images. Baseline results will be presented for three novel conditions: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot and One-vs-All Zero-Shot. We find that cross-lingual transfer is more successful for culturally-related languages. Data and code will be made publicly available.


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