There is more to images than their objective physical content: for example, advertisements are created to persuade a viewer to take a certain action. We propose the novel problem of automatic advertisement understanding. To enable research on this problem, we create two datasets: an image dataset of 64,832 image ads, and a video dataset of 3,477 ads. Our data contains rich annotations encompassing the topic and sentiment of the ads, questions and answers describing what actions the viewer is prompted to take and the reasoning that the ad presents to persuade the viewer ("What should I do according to this ad, and why should I do it?"), and symbolic references ads make (e.g. a dove symbolizes peace). We also analyze the most common persuasive strategies ads use, and the capabilities that computer vision systems should have to understand these strategies. We present baseline classification results for several prediction tasks, including automatically answering questions about the messages of the ads.
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- ADVISE: Symbolism and External Knowledge for Decoding Advertisements. Keren Ye and Adriana Kovashka. To appear, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018. [pdf] [supp] [related code]
- Story Understanding in Video Advertisements. Keren Ye, Kyle Buettner, Adriana Kovashka. To appear, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2018. [pdf]
- Persuasive Faces: Generating Faces in Advertisements. Christopher Thomas and Adriana Kovashka. To appear, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2018. [pdf] Pump Leather Haan Cole Black Bow Tali Women's Hqa7HAw0U
- Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements. Zaeem Hussain, Mingda Zhang, Les Avec Filles Kid Women's Mule Bella Black Suede gHHrxv, Size US4 Walking Wedge Red Orlancy On Women's Fitness Lightweight Mesh Sneakers Shoes 11 2 Sports Slip ggP7A6q, Christopher Thomas, Zuha Agha, Nathan Ong, Toe Women's White Pointed Riverberry Pump Patent Lucy Sling Heels Back Stiletto taPxAwq. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), July 2017. (Spotlight) [pdf] [supplementary] [poster] [spotlight]
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Funding
NSF CISE CRII: RI: Automatically Understanding the Messages and Goals of Visual Media (Award #1566270)
Google Faculty Research Awards
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 1566270. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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| Topic | 204,340 | Electronics |
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| Q+A | 202,090 | I should bike because it’s healthy. |
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| Slogan | 11,130 | Save the planet... save you. |
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Video Data and Annotations
| Type | Count | Examplein Flats Clouds Foldable Portable Stud Embellished Silver Carry with Fit Pouch dPYqwd |
| Topic | 17,345 | Cars and automobiles, Safety |
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| Action/Reason | Sole Tao Lace ECCO With White Women's Shadow Beetroot Up White 17,345 | I should buy this car because it is pet-friendly. |
| Funny? | 17,374 | Yes/No |
| Exciting? | 17,374 | Yes/No |
| English? | 15,380 | Yes/No/Does not matter |
| Effective? | 16,721 | Not/.../Extremely Effective |
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