Title: Open-World Visual Recognition Using Knowledge Graphs,
Abstract: In a real-world setting, visual recognition systems can be brought to make
predictions for images belonging to previously unknown class labels. In order
to make semantically meaningful predictions for such inputs, we propose a
two-step approach that utilizes information from knowledge graphs. First, a
knowledge-graph representation is learned to embed a large set of entities into
a semantic space. Second, an image representation is learned to embed images
into the same space. Under this setup, we are able to predict structured
properties in the form of relationship triples for any open-world image. This
is true even when a set of labels has been omitted from the training protocols
of both the knowledge graph and image embeddings. Furthermore, we append this
learning framework with appropriate smoothness constraints and show how prior
knowledge can be incorporated into the model. Both these improvements combined
increase performance for visual recognition by a factor of six compared to our
baseline. Finally, we propose a new, extended dataset which we use for
experiments.