PPCap: A Plug and Play Framework for Efficient Stylized Image Captioning
摘要
Stylized image captioning aims at generating captions that accurately describe the image content while aligning with the desired style. In semi-supervised setting, existing methods typically first pre-train models on large-scale factual image-caption pairs and then fine-tune the pre-trained models on small-scale unpaired stylized corpus, requiring significant resources. In this paper, we propose PPCap, a novel Plug and Play framework for stylized image captioning, where only a stylized image captioning model needs to be trained on small-scale unpaired stylized corpus. Then it will form a generative style discriminator via Bayes rule by the contrast of the captions in different styles, guiding an off-the-shelf large-scale factual image captioning model to generate stylized image captions in a post-processing manner, which is flexible and efficient. Experimental results on SentiCap and FlickrStyle10k show that our framework achieves comparable performance to the state-of-the-art methods in the same setting while reducing training time by over 90%. Our code is available at https://github.com/gWeiXP/PPCap .