Cross-scene visual context parsing with large vision-language model

Relation analysis is crucial for image-based applications such as visual reasoning and visual question answering. Current relation analysis such as scene graph generation (SGG) only focuses on building relationships among objects within a single image. However, in real-world applications, relationships among objects across multiple images, as seen in video understanding, may hold greater significance as they can capture global information. This is still a challenging and unexplored task. In this paper, we aim to explore the technique of Cross-Scene Visual Context Parsing (CS-VCP) using a large vision-language model. To achieve this, we first introduce a cross-scene dataset comprising 10,000 pairs of cross-scene visual instruction data, with each instruction describing the common knowledge of a pair of cross-scene images. We then propose a Cross-Scene Visual Symbiotic Linkage (CS-VSL) model to understand both cross-scene relationships and objects by analyzing the rationales in each scene. The model is pre-trained on 100,000 cross-scene image pairs and validated on 10,000 image pairs. Both quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Our method has been released on GitHub: https://github.com/gavin-gqzhang/CS-VSL.